Round Rock ISD – 2011-12
5E Lesson Plan
Teacher: 5th Grade Bilingual Teachers
Date: Aug. 17 (Job Alike)
Subject area / course / grade level: Science
Materials: nutritional menus from a variety of restaurants, food pyramid, sample food labels, websites, computer
TEKS/SEs:
5.1A Examine and analyze food labels and menus for nutritional content
5.1B Apply information from the food guide pyramid to making healthy food choices
5.1C Identify foods that are sources of one or more of the six major nutrients
Lesson objective(s): TSW examine and analyze food labels and menus for nutritional content.
TSW apply information from the food guide pyramid to making healthy food choices.
TSW Identify foods that are sources of one or more of the six major nutrients
Language objectives: (listed in Engagement section below)
Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs:
Comprehensible Input (How to make content comprehensible for all learners)
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Reading the menus from Identify the nutritional
Determine which entrees
various restaurants.
values of the entrees.
are healthier and why.
Advanced High
Create healthy meals for
your family and explain
how each meal is
healthy.
ENGAGEMENT
Language objectives:
(A) use prior knowledge and experiences to understand meanings in English;
(B) monitor oral and written language production and employ self-corrective techniques or other
resources;
(C) use strategic learning techniques such as concept mapping, drawing, memorizing, comparing,
contrasting, and reviewing to acquire basic and grade-level vocabulary;
(D) speak using learning strategies such as requesting assistance, employing non-verbal cues, and
using synonyms and circumlocution (conveying ideas by defining or describing when exact
English words are not known);
(E) internalize new basic and academic language by using and reusing it in meaningful ways in
speaking and writing activities that build concept and language attainment;
(F) use accessible language and learn new and essential language in the process;
(G) demonstrate an increasing ability to distinguish between formal and informal English and an
increasing knowledge of when to use each one commensurate with grade-level learning
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expectations; and
(H) develop and expand repertoire of learning strategies such as reasoning inductively or deductively,
looking for patterns in language, and analyzing sayings and expressions commensurate with grade-level
learning expectations.
Engage Activity:
1. Create a T-chart as a class using the topic: What do you like to eat and what should you eat?
2. Students may create the T-chart in their science notebooks.
Building Background
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Describe how the teacher will capture students’ interest.
What kind of questions should the students ask themselves after the engagement?
EXPLORATION
Exploration Activity
1. Create a few hypothetical meals together choosing items from the labels and menus.
2. Students identify carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and calories for each meal. Create a table to organize the data
and make comparisons.
Strategies
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Describe what hands-on/minds-on activities students will be doing.
List “big idea” conceptual questions the teacher will use to encourage and/or focus students’ exploration
EXPLANATION
1. Determine which meal is the healthiest and why.
2. Ask and discuss:
 What resources did we use to access the nutritional content of our meal?
 How do companies communicate nutritional content of their products? (The Subway web site and the
company’s campaign for eating healthier fast food is a good resource for the discussion.)
 How can the Internet be a useful resource in helping us make healthy decisions?
Lesson Delivery
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Student explanations should precede introduction of terms or explanations by the teacher. What questions or techniques will the teacher use to help
students connect their exploration to the concept under examination?
List higher order thinking questions which teachers will use to solicit student explanations and help them to justify their explanations.
ELABORATION
Elaboration Activity:
1. Gather magazines/newspaper advertisements or online resources that relate to healthy or unhealthy behaviors.
2. Identify and discuss the positive and negative messages these advertisements send us about healthy
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behaviors. Discuss the company’s true intentions and the need to be a critical consumer.
3. Gather health information from health organizations that students can access to research current information
and updates.
 http://kidshealth.org/kid/
 http://www.hhs.gov/kids/
 http://www.bam.gov/
 http://www.calorieking.com
4. Students create a brochure or public service announcement to educate others on a selected health issue that is
important to students.
Practice and Application
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Describe how students will develop a more sophisticated understanding of the concept.
What vocabulary will be introduced and how will it connect to students’ observations?
How is this knowledge applied in our daily lives?
EVALUATION
1. Students present brochures or public service announcements.
2. Students track their eating habits over time and report how they have improved their food choices since
learning about nutrition and health.
3. Students write a reflection discussing what they have learned about nutrition and what they are still wondering.
Assessment and Review
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How will students demonstrate that they have achieved the lesson objective?
This should be embedded throughout the lesson as well as at the end of the lesson
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