Chemical and mechanical digestion take place in the stomach, a muscular organ. Digestive juices, including hydrochloric acid, chemically break down food.
Villi line the inner walls of the small intestine, increasing the surface area through which food can be absorbed.
Villi are filled with blood vessels, through which food molecules enter the blood stream, where they are converted to energy.
The main organs of the human urinary system include two bean-shaped kidneys located at the bottom of the rib cage near the back. Kidneys perform the very important job of removing nitrogen-containing wastes from the blood.
This lesson is adapted from Google's Be Internet Awesome Lesson 1: Share With Care. It specifically focuses on Activity 1: When not to share and Activity 4: Keeping it Private.
This lesson is designed to teach students about their digital influence. That influence can be used in a positive or negative way. Things that are posted online have the potential to build people up or to tear them down. Part of being a good digital citizen is to make sure that we think before we post.
In this assignment, students will work together to create a digital story on the importance of digital citizenship.
Students create a digital story about their personal and family health history or a specific health concern.
Kindergarten teachers can meet education standards for Math, Science, English Language Arts, and Health using the 6 ready-to-go and interactive lessons.
The students will play beach ball glo-germ. Students will gather information about a disease of their choice using Utah's Online Library resources. The students will use Utah's Online Library to cite their sources. The students will create their disease project in google slides.
Students will identify what makes them unique. Students will identify physical differences and similarities between themselves and other students. Students will learn the effects of treating people different because of race, culture or ethnic backgrounds. Students will learn to accept others differences.
At the completion of this lesson students will be able to: identify situations that trigger stress; distinguish between eustress and distress; describe the stress response and how it influences performance; and develop strategies for managing or reducing stress.
This lesson helps students develop strategies for managing or reducing stress.
National Institute on Drug Abuse publication on drugs and the human brain
Students will identify types of drugs, the short and long-term effects, and identify strategies for maintaining a drug-free lifestyle.
This lesson integrates Health Standard 6 (dysfunctional eating) with Language Arts Standard 7 (imperative writing). It teaches students the dangers of dysfunctional eating. Students create a recipe for a healthy snack and present it to the class both orally and in written format.
Students will demonstrate health-promoting and risk-reducing behaviors to prevent substance abuse. Students will also demonstrate independent research to find academic information.
In this lesson we will talk about why it is important to be healthy. We will use lots of pictures and class participation.
Students will create menus for a restaurants in small groups. The class will use them as a basis to order a healthy meal. Students need to know the difference between an "everyday food" and a "sometimes food." "Everyday foods" provide excellent fuel for the body to work efficiently and "sometimes foods" provide inferior fuel to the body. We CHOOSE what food to put into our bodies. When we choose healthy foods, our bodies work better and we live longer, stronger lives. If we select unhealthy foods to eat most of the time,our bodies will have trouble working efficiently and will place us at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease or stroke.
This is a lesson for preschool students. In this lesson, students will learn about the importance of eating healthy and how to make good food choices. They will learn about the five food groups and be able to categorize food into the correct food groups. This lesson follows the following core standards: Strand 4: Nutritions- Students will understand why food choices are important, Standard HE 4.1 Identify a variety of healthy foods, Standard HE 4.2-Identify healthy food and begin to categorize into food groups, Standard 4.3 Try new foods from a variety of food groups.Image Citation: food healthy flyer landscape by yellow bananas from Canva created by Suzanne McMillan