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- Healthy body, healthy mind
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 6.5
- It seems that every year a new fad diet comes along that promises instant weight loss. With all the media hype, students believe what they hear. This fifth-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students that the best way to to stay healthy and lose weight is through good nutrition, portion control, and exercise.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living)
- Healthy choices: Part I
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 6.1
- We all like to eat snacks, but are our choices healthful? This fifth-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students about the food groups, the nutrients that make up foods, and how to make smart snack choices.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living)
- Healthy choices: Part II
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 6.2
- Children's snack items can have high amounts of both fat and sugar. This fifth-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students how to make wise and healthy decisions when choosing snacks and beverages.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Healthful Living)
- How can we represent sounds that are in the environment?
- In BioMusic, page 2.2
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will listen to frog calls and identify the difference between high and low pitches. They will represent sounds using aural, graphic, and kinesthetic methods.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Dance Arts Education and Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How can we view and distinguish sounds?
- In BioMusic, page 2.4
- In this engaging lesson, students will listen to recordings of various animals sounds and compare them with their visual representations on sound spectrograms. They will explore topics such as pitch, frequency, timbre, and vibration through animal vocalization, human voice, and instrumental composition.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How do animals create sound to communicate?
- In BioMusic, page 2.3
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will experiment with a variety of objects and musical instruments to show how sound is caused by vibrations. They will learn how humans and birds create sound using the larynx and the syrinx, and identify two animals that use objects in their environments to create specific sounds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How do I express what I believe? - Part 2
- This is the second in a three-part lesson series seeking to examine belief systems and how they impact culture in the United States. This lesson, "How do I express what I believe?" requires 3 sessions at 40 minutes each to complete. The lesson series also seeks to let students examine their own personal belief system. In this lesson, the student will learn about the American tradition of the Face Jug/Pot and how it is used to express belief. The student will also create a Face Jug/Pot to express his/her belief, and this pot will be used in the third lesson entitled. "How do I present what I believe?"
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Donna Pumphrey.
- How does an animal's environment affect the frequency of its sound?
- In BioMusic, page 2.6
- In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between frequency and pitch. In addition to conducting a simple experiment, they will also examine bat and elephant sound spectrograms. Students will learn how both animals and humans use their environments to create sound for communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How does sound travel in different environments?
- In BioMusic, page 2.7
- In this lesson, students will identify mediums that sounds can travel through and use experiments to discover how each medium affects sound. By listening to recordings and viewing sound spectrograms, they will learn about whale song and how these animals transmit sound through water (liquid).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How is dolphin communication similar to human communication?
- In BioMusic, page 2.10
- In this lesson, students will find several similarities between the ways humans and dolphins use sound to communicate. They will practice making their own dolphin sounds and use them to communicate with a partner. They will also use these sounds to accompany a reading of Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping Jaws by Wendy Pfeffer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How sound is like a wave: Investigating animal echolocation
- In BioMusic, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students will use two models to demonstrate how sound waves occur. They will infer how sound waves travel from a source and weaken as they spread. By demonstrating how sound echoes off objects, students will learn about animal echolocation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- Human coordinate graph
- Students will actively learn how to plot ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. They will also learn how to connect ordered pairs to graph a picture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
- By Cheryl Sexton.
- Hurricane response: What do we do first?
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.8
- In this lesson for grade seven, students take on the roles of officials preparing for and responding to a hurricane.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 7 Science)
- By Emma Couch.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- I have, who has...?
- A chain review game involving teacher made cards on the skills of adding and subtracting fractions, and equivalent fractions. This lesson can serve as a review for many math concepts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Sherry Russell.
- Identifying oily foods: Discovering healthy snacks
- Using a drop of water and a drop of oil for comparison, students conduct food rubs to detect oily content in foods. The lesson culminates with a cookbook of healthy snacks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living)
- By Janie Bourbina.
- Idioms
- In The Walking Classroom, page 2
- In this lesson for fifth grade language arts, students listen to a podcast about idioms and discuss their use and how they can be confusing.
- Format: lesson plan
- In the spirit of... (museum post-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In the post-visit lesson, students will create plaster masks and write a brief description.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education)
- By Tamela Davis.
- In the spirit of... (museum pre-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In this pre-visit lesson, students will explore the cultures of the Western Hemisphere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Shannon Kelly.
- In the spirit of... (museum visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. This lesson focuses on students' observations of masks while visiting a museum.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Shannon Kelly.
- Inside and outside: Paradox of the box
- This lesson serves to introduce students to symbolism (the box), to the literary element paradox, and to the abstract notion of ambiguity (freedom vs. confinement). It is designed for 2nd and 3rd graders, but may be adapted for use with upper elementary or early middle school grades.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–6 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
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