Health Education Lesson Plan Template
Descriptive Information
Skill Emphasis (NHES):Self Management
Grade Level: 11th grade
Content Area of Health: Nutrition
Content Descriptor & Sub-Descriptor(s):
4. Balancing Food Intake and Physical Activity
4.2 how energy is expended during exercise/activity
4.3 healthful weight management practices
Title of Lesson: How to control your weight
PA Standard (Health & PE):
10.1.9 C- Analyze factors that impact nutritional choices of adolescents.
10.1.9 E- Analyze how personal choice, disease and genetics can impact health maintenance and disease
prevention.
Curricular Connections: Math
Adolescent Risk Behavior (if applicable): Dietary Patterns that contribute to disease/
Behavioral Objective(s)
Cognitive: During the lesson, students will be able to demonstrate how to calculate their
correct BMR based on their weight, height, age, and physical activity.
Cognitive: After the lesson, students will be able to demonstrate self management skills by
providing alternate ways to stay healthy during each age range.
Affective: During group discussions, students will be able to share their opinions about self
management techniques to stay healthy.
Skill-Based: After the lesson, student will be able to demonstrate self management techniques
by setting 5 goals to maintain a healthy weight throughout their life.
Brief Outline of Today’s Lesson
1. Bell Ringer- “Consequences of Obesity”
2. Introduction to the lesson
3. Content and Instructional Strategies
a. What Obesity?
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b. Why is obesity a problem?
c. How does obesity effect an adolescent?
d. How it effects someone’s everyday life
e. What is BMR?
f. Importance of BMR
g. How to calculate BMR
h. How to calculate BMR with exercise
i. Ways to prevent obesity
4. Learning Activity- BMR Worksheet/ Body Suit
5. Assessment
6. Final Thoughts/ Conclusion to the lesson
Expanded Outline of Today’s Lesson
1.Introduction to the Lesson (Set Induction): Have the students list how many extra calories a
day would cause them to gain an extra pound a week. The answer is 500 extra calories a day
would equal 1 pound a week. Show them a food that is 500 calories that they wouldn’t expect
to be that much. Today in class we will be learning about obesity and how it is a problem in our
society. You will be completing a worksheet to calculate your BMR and you will have a chance
to feel what it would be like to gain 25 pounds in a year and then 50 pounds in two years.
2.Bell Ringer (Instant Activity): Individually student will brainstorm the consequences to being
overweight/ obese. They will get three minutes to write down their thoughts and then the lists
will be shared with the entire class.
3.Content & Instructional Strategies:
I. What is Obesity? (Lecture)
a. Obese means you have an excess amount of body fat. You need a certain amount of
body fat for stored energy, heat insulation and other functions.
b. Overweight means you have an excess amount of body weight, compared to set
standards. This excess weight may come from muscle, bone, fat or body water.
c. Obesity is a disease that affect over one-third of adult American population. The
number of overweight and obsess Americans has increased since 1960, and has no sign of
slowing down.
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II. Why is obesity a problem?
a. Diseases
a. Diabetes
b. High Blood Pressure
c. Heart diseases
d. Sleep apnea
e. Cancer
f. Osteoarthritis
b. Nutrition
a. Fast food restaurants
b. Unhealthy food is cheaper
c. More convenient and fast to make unhealthy food/buy unhealthy foods
d. People don’t recognize what healthy foods are at a young age
c. Physical Activity
a. Less time in PE
b. Technology
c. Busy life styles- people think there is no time to workout
d. Negative thoughts about exercise
III. How does obesity effect an adolescent?
a. Increases bullying in schools
b. More likely to be obese as an adult
c. Psychological affects
a. Depression
b. Anxiety
IV. How obesity effect everyday lives? (Fat-suit demonstration)
a. Increase in the number of health problems
b. Difficult to walk/sit
c. Causes low self-esteem
d. Harder to do physical activities
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e. Fat-suit demonstration with 25lb and 50 lb weights
V. What is BMR?(Lecture, Questions and Answers)
 You use energy no matter what you're doing, even when sleeping. This will show you
how to calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR); the number of calories you'd
burn if you stayed in bed all day (answer)
 Amount of calories your cells needs to stay alive
VI. Importance of BMR:
 Important to know how many calories a person needs to stay at a healthy weight.
 Need to know so a person does not need to over eat.
 Need to calculate BMR weekly. If losing weight your BMR will decrease so need to
know new BMR to make sure you ‘re eating the right amount of calories daily.
 Never consume less then your BMR because cells will not be able to function
properly and can be detrimental to the body.
VII. How to calculate your BMR?
 Change height to inches: 5ft 3 ins = (5 x12) +3 = 63 in
 Women: BMR = 655 + ( 4.35 x weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 x height in inches ) - ( 4.7 x
age in years ) (answer)
 Example: 655+(4.35 x 110) + (4.7 x 63) – (4.7 x 11) =1,377.9
 Men: BMR = 66 + ( 6.23 x weight in pounds ) + ( 12.7 x height in inches ) - ( 6.8 x age
in year ) (answer)
VIII. How to read your BMR?
 The number that is calculated is the numbers of calories you should eat daily.
 This number is without taking into account any type of physical activity.
 If student is physical activate with sports the students can consume more calories.
IX. How to calculate BMR with exercise?
 Harris Benedict Formula:
 To determine your total daily calorie needs, multiply your BMR by the appropriate
activity factor, as follows:
1. If you are sedentary (little or no exercise) : Calorie-Calculation = BMR x 1.2
2. If you are lightly active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/week) : CalorieCalculation =
BMR x 1.375
3. If you are moderately active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/week) :
Calorie-Calculation = BMR x 1.55
4. If you are very active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days a week) : CalorieCalculation =
BMR x 1.725
5. If you are extra active (very hard exercise/sports & physical job or 2x training) :
Calorie-Calculation = BMR x 1.9
 Example: Female= 1,377x 1.725=2,376 calories a day
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4. In-Class Learning Activity (ies): “Time Line of Obesity” (Skills to be practiced self
management)
1. Show the students a time line of events throughout life of occurrences when their weight
could increase.
2. Ask the students what causes weight gain between the ages 14-17, 18-22, 22-30, 30-40.
Then show the students a slide for each age range and why their weight might increase.
3. Have the students get in a group of three and go through the time line. On the worksheet
that is given to the students, they will have to write up to 4 self management ways to help
them decrease weight or maintain their healthy weight.
4. Then the students will have to present their self management ways to the class. The teacher
will assign them the age range they will present after they are completed the worksheet. Their
presentation must be at least 30 seconds long.
5. Have the students go back to their seats, on the back of their worksheet they will write down
5 goals they will set to maintain a healthy weight throughout life and maintaining a healthy
BMR.
6. We will ask for volunteers to say a goal and how they will maintain it throughout their life.
5. In-Class Learning Activity Assessment-Description & Criteria
 An analytical rubric will be used to grade the in-class learning activity, “Time Line of
Obesity,” on content (Core Concepts), health skills (self management), and other specific
criteria.
 Students must include 4 self management tips in each of the age ranges. It must be
accurate, comprehensive, show relationships between concepts, and draw conclusions.
The CC criteria on the analytical rubric below will be used to assess the content portion
of this activity.
 In addition, students will provide self management techniques to stop obesity for a
lifetime. They should indentify healthful behaviors, demonstrate healthful behaviors,
habits, and/or techniques, indentify protective behaviors, and list steps in correct order
if appropriate.
 Additional criteria are characterisits of the activity that are not content or skill related.
This criteria includes: 4 self management ways for each age range, 30 second
presentation, and 5 goals to maintain a healthy weight throughout their life.
 Score the “Time Line of Obesity” activity using the following core concepts criteria, skill
cues, additional criteria, and analytical rubric.
 Core Concepts
o Content for the “Time Line of Obesity” shows:
 Accuracy
 Comprehensiveness
 Relationships among concepts shown
 Conclusions drawn
 Skill: Self Management
 Identifies healthful behaviors
 Demonstrates healthful behaviors, habits, and/or techniques
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 Identifies protective behaviors
 Lists steps in correct order if appropriate
 Additional Criteria
 At least 4 self managing tips for each age range
 Presentation is at least 30 seconds
 Writes down at least 5 goals to maintain a healthy weight
Analytical Rubric for the in class learning Activity “Time line of Obesity”
6. Final Thoughts/Conclusion to the Lesson
 Check for understanding: (verbal)
o What two keys elements do you need to calculate your BMR?
o What are some ways you can self manage your weight as you get older?
 “As you learned today in the lesson, it only takes an extra 500 calories a day to gain 1
pound a week. It is important for you to beware of what you eat, incorporate physical
activity into your every day schedule, and make sure you know the amount of calories to
consume per day.”
7. Classroom Management & Materials
 Classroom Materials
o Handouts/Worksheets: “Time line of Obesity” (Learning Activity
Directions, analytical rubric, and grading assessment form), worksheet for
bell ringer, and BMR worksheet
o Other Materials: power point slides, worksheet packet, calculators
 Classroom Management
o For Content Delivery: Traditional seating for the content delivery
o For In-Class Learning Activity: students in groups with desks facing each
other.
Content References
Obesity related diseases . (2012). Retrieved from
http://www.obesityinamerica.org/understandingObesity/diseases.cfm
Calculating bmr and bmi. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://eweb.psdschools.org/DocumentLibrary/downloads/Benefits_Services/Welln
ess/Calculating_BMR_and_BMI.pdf
Adult obesity facts. (2012, August 13). Retrieved from
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
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Appendices
Handouts for students
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