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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Imports and Exports for Making a Food Pyramid

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the food pyramid and discuss it nutritional value. They play a game to determine what types of foods and number of servings they need to complete food pyramids. they can i"import" or "export" cards with foods they need...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fruit or Vegetable?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Watermelon is a vegetable? A tomato is a fruit? Believe it or not, this debate is decades old. Groups examine rulings by the US Supreme Court, the USDA, and state statutes before developing their own criteria to use when labeling...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Many Types of Rice Are There?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the cultivation and variation of rice around the world.  In this food lesson, 6th graders read about the process of bringing rice from a farm to your dinner plate and which types of rice grow in which...
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Handout
American University

American University: Austria Timber Import Ban

For Students 9th - 10th
Cites an Austrian law that tried to limit tropical rainforest product imports through taxation and eco-labeling in order to slow the effects of deforestation due to export trade. The effort was met with so much economic opposition that...
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Website
US Geological Survey

Bismuth

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing of all sorts of available reports on bismuth. Great resources for students at many levels.