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| Grade 8
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| Family and Consumer Sciences, Approved 2005
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| 2.1
| Demonstrate management of individual and family resources in order to achieve personal goals. (*2.1)
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Lesson Plans
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3 available
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Resources
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| Links (click to open) | Description |
| How to Find Medical Information |
This resource from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) provides a comprehensive compilation of methods and direct sources from which students in grades 8-12 can acquire information related to a variety of health-related topics, including government agencies, libraries, Internet, and even telephone and fax services. The resource also helps students to use information wisely, apply a dose of healthy sketicism, and determine possible routes to take when questions still loom. (SDFSCA Approved Activity A.ii - Activities that promote a sense of individual responsibility.)
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| Is this health information good for me? |
This resource from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) provides students in grades 6-12 with straightforward criteria to help them determine whether or not health information they have obtained is valid and applies to them personally or only to other populations. (SDFSCA Approved Activity A.ii - Activities that promote a sense of individual responsibility.)
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| Katrina Service Project: Service-Learning for Civic Engagement |
This presentation (980 K PowerPoint) from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) assists teachers in incorporating project-based service-learning into Hurricane Katrina and into relief efforts and education involving future incidents that arise. May be used with or without the accompanying teacher's guide. (SDFSC Approved Activity E.xix - Community service, including community service performed by expelled students, and service-learning projects.)
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| Katrina Teacher Guide: Service-Learning for Civic Engagement |
This presentation (1040 K PowerPoint) format teacher's guide from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) provides discussion questions and activities to assist with incorporating service-learning into relief and education efforts that may be useful whenever disaster strikes. May be used with or without the accompanying Katrina project service-learning PowerPoint. (SDFSC Approved Activity E.xix - Community service, including community service performed by expelled students, and service-learning projects.)
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Batch 3
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| Service Learning Toolbox |
This 21-page resource (PDF) from the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL) provides the materials school and community leaders need to get their own service learning projects up and running. It contains checklists and work pages divided into four key areas: preparation (project identification and planning), action, formal evaluation, and online resources. (SDFSC Approved Activity E.xix - Community service, including community service performed by expelled students, and service-learning projects.)
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Batch 3
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| Understanding Risk |
This resource from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) helps students in grades 6-12 learn about what goes into interpreting media headlines describing research results, types of scientific studies, clinical trials, understanding scientific results, and what to look for to determine reliability and applicability of reports of studies and new findings related to health and medicine. (SDFSCA Approved Activity A.ii - Activities that promote a sense of individual responsibility.)
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Batch 3
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