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Spanish and English Cognates
Discover Spanish cognates. Your learners don't even have to know what common cognates are, to be able to identify the ones used here. First, have them read the Spanish sentence provided. They then choose the correct translation from a...
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How Can I Help?
Students explain that people with asthma can stay healthy most of the time if they do these things: stay away from things such as furry pets or cigarette smoke that make their asthma worse, go to the doctor and take medicine.
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Heavy Breathing
Students investigate asthma and air quality, and then map or graph the incidence of asthma by county and air quality information by county in the state of Maryland. They attempt to see any correlations and note any limitations of the data.
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Energy Crossword Puzzle
In this energy crossword worksheet, students read 36 clues pertaining to energy conservation. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
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The Respiratory System
In this respiratory system worksheet, students compare how much air a person can typically exhale in one breath as compared to others. Then they develop a questionnaire to test their subjects and respond to the questions proposed.
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Is Your Home Bugging You?
Students look into the world-wide rise in allergy rates. In this personal health lesson, students research and discuss possible reasons for the spike in allergies.
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A Child's Journey through Medicine
Young scholars experience a variety of activities that relate to human physiology and their functions. They create graphs and charts after testing their heart rates and blood pressure They conduct a survey of the student body and...
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What Size Are Your Feet?
In this personal facts worksheet, students explore why it's important to treat everyone equally. Students read and fill out a questionnaire with 10 questions relating to all the different students in their classroom.
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Health Education: Childhood Diseases and Health Issues
Fourth graders research childhood diseases and health conditions. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders identify problems associated with and measures to control common childhood diseases or conditions such as asthma,...
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TE Lesson: Out of Breath
Learners study the parts of the human respiratory system while examining the gas exchange that takes place in the lungs. They make a model lung. They look at how the respiratory system is affected by spaceflight.
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What Can I Do?
Students describe the things that citizens can do to reduce ground level ozone and particulate matter. They design a flyer, poster or webpage to teach others about diesel bus retrofitting projects.
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Coma
Students examine the diving reflex response which allows a person to stay underwater for an extended period of time. They complete an experiment to compare resting pulse rate and pulse rate when their face is submerged in water.
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Student Led Staff Development: A Teen's Definition of Crisis
Students research an area that is relavent to their age level that concerns them. They work together to create a presentation to give to the faculty. They must use technology in their presentations.
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Survival
Equip young campers with important survival knowledge with a set of engaging lessons. Teammates work together to complete three outdoor activities, which include building a shelter, starting a campfire, and finding directions in the...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Going SmokeFree Matters: Multiunit Housing
If you smoke cigarettes in an apartment or condominium complex, the secondhand smoke can travel through walls, ventilation systems, and plumbing to your neighbors' homes. Learn more about the ways smoking can affect those living in...
Twin Cities Medical Society
Should I Talk to My Kids about Vaping?
Enlist parents and guardians in an anti-vaping campaign with an infographic that offers suggestions for how to talk with their students about e-cigarettes and e-liquids. The visual includes information about the dangers of vaping as well...
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Lord of the Flies: Figurative Language
In this Lord of the Flies worksheet, students write whether given examples are simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole, and tell how they know.
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Weapon Safety
Third graders discuss and analyze safety rules with weapons. In this health and safety lesson, the teacher introduces the topic of weapons with the story The Drums of Noto Hanto. Students participate in a class discussion about weapons...
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Deshawn's Days
Students read about a boy while exploring poetry. In this poetry lesson, students discuss how Deshawn's neighborhood and family are described.
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Government: The Mystery Epidemic
Students are able to identify some roles of government in dealing with the prevention and treatment of skin cancer. They are able to list two reasons why the occurrence of skin cancer in youths has increased.
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Conflicts in Government Policy Objectives
Young scholars consider a series of arguments for a particular set of policy proposals that have wide ranging implications not only to the non-economic objectives of a government but also to the wider efficiency and equity of the economy...
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Smoking: Grades 3-5
Young scholars discuss the pros and cons of smoking. For this smoking lesson, students navigate websites to find information on smoking and then participate in a discussion with specific discussion questions.
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Theodore Roosevelt
In this online interactive history learning exercise, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Theodore Roosevelt. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive learning exercise.
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Air Module Scenario (Exercises #1-5)
Young scholars, after researching/analyzing the concept of environmental health to air quality, role-play the basic principals of epidemiology. They act out a specific scenario to generate questions, draft a research plan, and generate...