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Balanced Meal Planner

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use an online website to select foods and put them onto a plate to see if they have made healthy and balanced meals. In this healthy meals lesson plan, students review the food pyramid before this activity.
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MOBILITY, Traveling Lightly: What’s My Footprint?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners calculate their carbon footprint. In this environmental technology lesson, students listen to a lecture on climate change. Learners brainstorm solutions to reduce environmental impact based on travel options. Students calculate...
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Supermarket Science: The King Sooper Lab

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read product labels, compare fat, sodium, and sugar contents of various food items. They work with a partner and often employ the assistance of the deli and bakery managers in a supermarket.
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Echo Location

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
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Nutrition: One Hot Topic!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students learn the content of the food groups and are better prepared to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle. Students identify the main food groups and list content examples. Students create a cookbook of new and healthy snacks.
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Building an African Compound

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students, in small groups create a model of a compound that might be found in a rural African village. As a class, students orally contribute to a summary paragraph on what they have learned about different forms of shelter found in Africa.
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"Hand 'n Glove"

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify community helpers and learn about their jobs with this role-play game.
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Postcards from the Net

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students take a closer examine the world just outside their doors and share their experiences with their classmates, near and far. They create postcards of their community and email them to pen pals in other school districts.
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Salt Junk and Ship's Biscuit

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders describe the diet of the Royal Navy during the Revolution. They prepare and cook a typical meal for a sailo and identify potential health problems arising from such a diet.
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People & Trees

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students see that people have developed new technologies and new products that increase efficiencies and maximize the productive use of each tree harvested. This lesson provides many good ideas across the curriculum to study forestry.
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How to Get Rich Slowly

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover how to budget in order to live in today's world. Allocating their resources is of prime importance in the monthly budget. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to figure out their monthly budget.
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Ready, Set, Grow

For Teachers 1st
Create a class butterfly garden, then write journal entries with illustrations of the garden.
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Water Density Boundaries

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create observable layers in water that represent a separation based upon density differences. They model density boundaries using differences in temperature and salinity. They, in groups, perform a meaningful experiment...
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Estimate a Dinner Plate

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students work with a partner to solve the real-world problem of planning a favorite meal given a specific budget. They review and practice estimation strategies to determine the reasonableness of calculations in a given situation.
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Field Crops in the Food System

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students complete activities related to food production and distribution. In this agriculture lesson plan, students read and discuss the crops grown in Iowa and Wisconsin and the ways the crops are used. They complete activities related...
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Who's In The Bag?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students bring in a bag from home with personal items. In this ice breaker lesson, students bring 10 personal items to school. The teacher shows them, asks the students questions, and has them guess as to the owner of the bag. 
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Who's in the Bag?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students express personal characteristics with items from home. They introduce themselves to one another.
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Mater Your Munchies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the various food groups while doing a physical activity.
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Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math at the Grocery Store

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make grocery shopping a mathematical experience. Parents and children explore a variety of math concepts through this collection of engaging math activities. Lesson are presented in varying levels of difficulty, offer "Parent Pointers"...
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Alex: "P" Shopping at the Grocery Store

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will explore marketing tools, terminology, and the specific four P's of marketing strategy. After viewing the introductory materials, background content, and completing two brief in class assignments, students...
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National Geographic: Geographic Groceries

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
This site provides activities and lesson plans for all age levels on mapping.
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Tonya Skinner Business Ed Lesson Plans: Grocery Shopping

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners to plan a class party while organizing the budget details in a spreadsheet program. Learners will demonstrate computer skills in inputting data, formatting data, and...
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Unite for Literacy: Family: Chef's Surprise!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this story, a young girl goes grocery shopping with her father, then they prepare a meal together for her mother. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
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Alex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System

For Teachers 1st - 8th
This lesson is an introduction to the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The Dewey Decimal Classification System will be compared with the familiar layout of a grocery store. Students will organize grocery...

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