LEHHS-SOS Planning Worksheet
The main purpose of this worksheet is to prompt you to think about how a lesson or unit might be designed (or refined) to make it relevant to students in the School of Law
Education, Health, & Human Resources. This is not intended to replace your current method of planning units and lessons. You will be prompted to consider three areas of
refinement; Flavoring the Lesson, Contextualizing the Lesson, and Integrating the Content.
Content Area:
SOS:
Core Content and/or Big Idea/Instructional Goal
Unit:
Teacher:
DOK
Flavoring for LEHHS- Decide on a Strategy/Activity/Hook for the lesson which will appeal to students in this specific School of Study. Prompts below are not exhaustive, but
are examples of how one might flavor a lesson with a School of Study.
Some LEHHS Flavors-School of Law, Education, Health, & Human Services
 Law
o Use legal documents
o Use actual relics
o Involve legal issues
o Discuss cause and effect
 Education
o True group work
o Students teaching
o Impact on society
o Relate to education/students/youth
o Allow student choice
What will I do as the teacher to flavor this lesson with LEHHS?
What will the students be asked to do to in order to flavor this lesson with LEHHS?
How will the assignment be flavored with LEHHS?
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Health
o Relate to health care (current or past)
o Impact on public/individual welfare or environment
o Public Opinion
o Anatomy (human or animal)
Human Resources
o Relate to the environment (past, current, future)
o Jobs, economy, corporations
o Simulations with real life roles
o Real life debates
o Relate to public policy
Contextualizing the Lesson – Aligning the “work” of the lesson with real life and/or world of work experiences
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Is there a real life context, scenario, or current event that relates to the big idea in this lesson?
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Is there a real world text, product, or model that students could study to deepen their understanding of the big idea?
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Is there a real world problem to solve, product to create, or task to complete in this lesson?
Integrating the Content – Intentionally connecting the big ideas in this lesson to other content areas can sometimes enhance connections to the real life context.
Caution! Never force fit connections to other content areas and always maintain the academic rigor of the lesson you are designing.
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Are there natural connections to other content areas?
o Math
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Science
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Social Studies
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Arts and Humanities
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Practical Living/Vocational Studies
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Communication Skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking)
If there are natural connections, how might collaboration with a teacher in that area enhance this lesson?