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Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism

This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, Healthful Living, and Mathematics)

By Gloria Simmons.

PIZZA = "Fractions: Any Way You Slice It!"

During this lesson, students will explore and investigate the relationships among fractions. Students will use paper pizzas divided into fractional parts to compare equivalent fractions. They will see part-whole fractions as fair shares and begin to understand that the parts must be equal.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)

By Alta Allen.

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Plastic Fork Diaries

Follow six middle school students as they experience first-hand the relationship between food and their changing bodies, cultural differences, the vanishing family meal, nutrition, and athletic performance. Interactives allow you to snoop through their lockers... (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Maryland Public Television