Healthy Hedgehogs After School Program
By: Sophie Johnson Copyright 2019 by Sophie Johnson under Creative Commons Non-Commercial License. Individuals and organizations may copy, reproduce, distribute, and perform this work and alter or remix this work for non-commercial purposes only

NEBRASKA HONORS PROGRAM CLC EXPANDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITY CLUBS INFORMATION SHEET:
Name of Club: Healthy Hedgehogs

Age/Grade Level: 2nd - 5th grade

Number of Attendees: (ideal number) 8

Goal of the Club: (learning objectives/outcomes) To learn about the body and difference aspects of health including physical, mental and social well-being. Also promoting an overall healthy lifestyle.

Resources: (Information for club provided by) Previous knowledge and online sources

Content Areas: (check all that apply)

☐ Arts (Visual, Music, Theater &Performance)
☐ Literacy
☐ STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering &Math)
☐ Social Studies
☒ Wellness (Physical Education, Health, Nutrition &Character Education)
Outputs or final products: (Does the club have a final product/project to showcase to community?) N/A

Introducing your Club/Activities: This club encouraged healthy behaviors.

General Directions: Pick a health-related topic each week being sure to review previous lessons. Helps to tie it to previous weeks lesson.

Tips/Tricks: Use fun activities to wrap up the lesson and increase interest in the topic.

Students research healthy benefits of nutritional foods using nonfiction text and the Healthy Me! graphic organizer. Students then share their research findings using the Jigsaw cooperative learning strategy. As a formative assessment, students construct an exit ticket response regarding the health benefits of a favorite healthy food.

Students investigate how the major body systems (digestive, circulatory, respiratory, muscular, skeletal, and nervous) function during a traditional childhood tag game. As a culminating activity for the 5th grade Passport Lessons, students engage in project-based learning (PBL) to create a Healthy Living Plan and share research findings regarding the benefits of eating healthy foods and vegetables on the major body systems.   

This HyperDoc is designed to guide students through analyzing and employing healthy food choices. This HyperDoc contains a compilation of good work examples creaetd by students, for other students.  Please make a copy of the document, then feel free to use as is or remix for your classroom. You will also need to create your own Padlet to be used with your students.

This activity is a mock investigation into different macroinvertebrates found in the streams in your local city. Students will record and analyze data that will lead them to learn if the water quality is good or bad in their backyard.

Immigration has been a touchstone of the American experience since the country’s founding. As part of this group, migrant workers are a large part of the workforce.
GoPro Challenge has now allowed educators and curriculum designers to use GoPro equipment to capture the ordinary world in ways that have never been seen before. The intimate look at the POV world of migrant workers in action, GoPro and virtual learning platforms together have the power to illuminate cultural, social, and political issues for students and teachers alike.

Students explore heat transfer and energy efficiency using the context of energy efficient houses. They gain a solid understanding of the three types of heat transfer: radiation, convection and conduction, which are explained in detail and related to the real world. They learn about the many ways solar energy is used as a renewable energy source to reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses and operating costs. Students also explore ways in which a device can capitalize on the methods of heat transfer to produce a beneficial result. They are given the tools to calculate the heat transferred between a system and its surroundings.

This video discusses carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere that have increased due to the burning of fossil fuels in electricity generation, transportation, and industrial processes. Video includes history of Keeling and his research, as well as the seasonal fluctuations in CO2.

This lesson explores the chemistry of some of the greenhouse gases that affect Earth's climate. Third in a series of 9 lessons from an online module entitled 'Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change'.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"In laying hens, the cecal microbiota is important for digestion and metabolism. However, it also produces hydrogen sulfide gas, an odorous and harmful pollutant that is released in large amounts from poultry houses. Host microRNAs (miRNAs) can regulate the gut microbiota, but whether they affect hydrogen sulfide production in hens is unclear. To clarify this issue, a recent study analyzed the cecal content of two laying hen breeds, Hy-line Gray and Lohmann Pink, with naturally different hydrogen sulfide production. Differential expression of several microbial genes was related to the difference in hydrogen sulfide production between breeds, miRNA-containing exosomes were present in the cecal contents, and the differentially expressed host miRNA gga-miR-222a regulated two of the altered microbial genes encoding methionine synthases. During in vitro fermentation, gga-miR-222a upregulated the two methionine synthase genes..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

This short video describes the Hestia project - a software tool and data model that provide visualizations of localized CO2 emissions from residential, commercial, and vehicle levels, as well as day versus night comparisons, in the city of Indianapolis.

How can we Design Cattle to Better Meet Human Needs?

In this high school Storyline unit on genetics and heredity, students are introduced to ‘SuperCows’. As they explore the vast variety of cattle breeds, students discover that cattle are specialized for different purposes and while similar, the ‘SuperCows’ are clearly unique. Students wonder what caused this diversity and specificity which leads to investigations about the role of inheritance, DNA and proteins.

Health covers a wide spectrum of current health topics. It investigates various components of mental, emotional, social, consumer, physical and reproductive health. It provides students with age-appropriate knowledge, skills, attitudes and the preventative measures necessary for creating a life-long healthy lifestyle. Health is designed to arm students with the most current and relevant health information so students are able to make wise, informative and positive choices to enhance their overall well-being. This is an essential class which fosters the concept of living a healthy, well-balanced life in all facets. Health II is a must have class in the virtual world. It fuses everyday real health issues in an invigorating, exciting, explorative, technology filled way allowing students a much more comprehensive, and imaginative way to study themselves and the make meaningful connections to the world around them.

The Nebraska Departments of Labor, Economic Development and Education collaborated to provide educators, economic developers, students and their parents, community leaders and career seekers information on the states’ high skill, high wage and high demand occupations that can be sorted by region or statewide or grouped by Career or Industry Cluster.

Students make the connection between the geography/climate and success of agriculture in Wyoming.

Short Description:
History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization. It entails myths, historical accounts, and scientific concepts to describe how human efforts have shaped and produced easier to grow, larger, tastier, and more nutritious fruits, vegetables, and grains from wild plants. Using examples of various economically and socially important crops central to human civilization, the book describes the origin of crop plants, the evolution of agricultural practices, fundamental concepts of natural selection vs. domestication, experimental and methodical plant breeding, and plant biotechnology. Data dashboard

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Students take notes and read articles about how life changed for humans because of the introduction of agriculture.  Students play “MasterMind” using the dates of significant changes in agriculture and complete a worksheet while researching historical events that have impacted agriculture.

Student analysis of the last 1000 years of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxia zone (informally "dead" zone) by using relative abundance of low-oxygen tolerant benthic foraminifera. In this example of environmental micropaleontology, students evaluate whether the "dead" zone has existed in its current form for many centuries or has become more intense in the time of increased anthropogenic input of organics (i.e., fertilizer).

This video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA profiles two scientists who were surprised in 1984 to discover a hole in our atmosphere's ozone layer as big as the United States.

Learn how a cow eats and digests food in this video segment from Nature.