Students learn information to help understand puberty and growing up including helping students understand injuries that can happen and how not to be embarrassed.
Students will explore their beliefs and values about independence and how cigarette advertising exploits peoples' desires for greater freedom.
This resource provides information about friendships including peer pressure, popularity, cliques, and bullying.
This article explains how to help someone who has frostbite.
In this lesson students will compare different fruits from MyPlate.
In this lesson students will identify a variety of healthy snack foods.
In this lesson, students investigate how we choose foods and the effect it has on our health. Note: This lesson was created in accordance with the VIF Global Competence Indicators for Grade 4. For more information about VIF and these indicators, please visit https://www.vifprogram.com/. This lesson was developed by Brenda Todd as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will recreate an international recipe at home from this website. http://www.easy-kids-recipes.com/international-recipes.html. This lesson was developed by Amber DiGiore as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will pick their favorite items off the McDonald's menu and evaluate the food label for each item them choose. This lesson was developed by Amber DiGiore as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will research the price of 1 week's worth of groceries in the United States. They will then be assigned a country and will research the amount of money spent on 1 week's worth of groceries in that country. This lesson was developed by Amber DiGiore as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will compare and contrast obesity rates worldwide. This lesson was developed by Amber DiGiore as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will research water conditions in developing countries. This lesson was developed by Amber DiGiore as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will investigate food in countries in different parts of the world. They will investigate the history, geography, and tradition that impact the food the people eat. Is there a certain reliance on a certain nutrient due to history, geography, and/or tradition? This lesson was developed by Matthew Cline as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Today students will investigate eating disorders by countries. Eating disorders impact adolescents, adults, and many people in the world. Students will investigate eating disorders by country and identify eating disorders that may be impacting a country. Students will make the public aware of eating disorders that are impacting countries. This lesson was developed by Matthew Cline as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
The fifth and final lesson will be Investigating the World and at the same time Recognize Perspectives as it relates to Body Mass Index. -Students will learn to determine their own BMI and determine whether they believe that there are different perspectives on the importance of having a low BMI by region? Are there any outside factors that are causing high BMI rates for particular regions? Reliance on fast foods, sedentary lifestyle, too much technology. This lesson was developed by Matthew Cline as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Today students will look at Food Labels. Food Labels are required by many countries to be visible on manufactured/processed/prepared foods. Are some food labels better than others? What nutrients should be most visible on food labels Should some nutrients not be as important in a food label? This lesson was developed by Matthew Cline as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will investigate what McDonald’s offers in restaurants in different countries. In the United States, students will be familiar with the Big Mac, Double Cheeseburger, and Egg McMuffin. Students may believe that McDonald’s would not offer more menu choices. Through investigation, students will see what else McDonald’s offers. 8.NPA.1.2 Summarize the benefit of consuming adequate amounts of vitamins A, E, and C, magnesium, calcium, iron, fiber, folic acid, and water in a variety of foods. 8.NPA.3.1 Identify media and peer pressures that result in unhealthy weight control (eating disorders, fad dieting, excessive exercise, smoking). This lesson was developed by Matthew Cline as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will study nutrition as a global and local need. Students will learn the causes of malnutrition and participate in a food drive. This lesson was developed by Julie Johnson as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
In this lesson, students will understand both the short- and long-term effects of marijuana use.
Students will think critically about culturally inherited gender stereotypes, and explore how stereotypes about men and women are promoted and reinforced through the images and messages in alcohol ads.