Lesson Plan # 1: MyPyramid
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to discuss with the students about an easy way for
them to remember what is good to eat. I will introduce the food guide pyramid and explain the
six different sections of the food pyramid from Mypyramid. After the food groups have been
introduced, the students will then use and interactive activity from the student sample link of the
wiki used from Bubbleshare and Glogster. At the end of this lesson, I will discuss how to keep a
food diary with the students. I will refer to some of the Curriculum-Framing Questions in the
unit plan link on the wiki.
Activities: The students will be utilizing Mypyramid and be introduced to a food diary.
Goal: The students will learn about Mypyramid and its importance.
Objective: After the explaining the food pyramid to the students, 6 out of 10 children should be
able to the classify foods by identifying their group.
Cognitive- Remember, Understand, and Analyze
NHES- Standards 4 and 5
AL. Course of Study- 2.9
Duration: 45 minutes
Procedures:
1. The teacher will ask the students to write on a sheet of paper what he or she ate that
morning and then allow the children to volunteer to share what they ate that morning
2. After the teacher has written on the board some of the foods the students have stated, then
a poster of Mypyramid will be projected on the Elmo.
3. The teacher will explain to the students the importance of Mypyramid, discuss in detail
each food group/stairs, serving sizes, use some of the foods the students have provide,
and ask them to put them in the correct group.
4. The teacher then will give each child a picture of a different food item and have the
children individually go to the board an put their food item in the correct area. (*** Note
this can be used as the in class student assessment evaluation)
5. After this has been completed, the teacher will then provide each student with a blank
food diary. The teacher will explain how to use the diary and how often it is to be brought
to school.
6. Allow questions and answer session
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Pencil
Mypyramid Posters (Completed and blank copy)
Elmo
Pictures of various food items and physical activity
Blank food diaries
Accommodations/ Modifications: Low literacy and bilingual will be able to use the computer
which will have automatic voice system and complete the online interactive version of
Mypyramid.
Evaluation: Students will go to the “student sample” link on my wiki and complete the activities
created by Bubbleshare and Globster. Student will also click on the Food Song Video to watch
and learn about good and bad choices. A rubric will also be used to assess the students’
knowledge.
Websites: http://www.mypyramid.gov/kids/
http://www.mealtime.org/content.aspx?id=280
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/food_smarts_my_pyramid_for_kids/
Lesson Plan # 2: Personal Health and Wellness
Description: Introduce the concept to the students that each person is responsible for certain
healthy behaviors, including getting enough rest, eating properly, and getting enough exercise.
The lesson will include the students identifying healthy behaviors, have the students to make a
schedule, and complete a crossword puzzle on personal health. I will refer to some of the
Curriculum-Framing Questions in the unit plan link on the wiki.
Activities:
Goal: For students to identify healthy behaviors by demonstrating personal responsibilities for
their person health.
Objective: About 30% of students will be able to identify a healthy behavior habit they can done
daily and inform other about healthy habits that can done as well by the end of the discussion and
puzzle.
Cognitive- Remember and Understand, Affective-Create, Psychomotor- Apply
Psychomotor- Apply
NHES- Standards 4, 5, and 7
AL. Course of Study- Nutrition 2.9 and Prevention and Control of Disease 2.11
Duration: 45 minutes
Procedures:
1. Introduce the concept to the students that each person is responsible for his or her own
personal health. These behaviors include: getting enough rest, eating properly, and
getting enough exercise
2. Ask the students can they state any behaviors that they do daily to help them stay
healthy? (Examples: brush teeth, daily baths, exercising, playing, relaxing)
3. Discuss with the children about personal health and wellness and what some of the things
they need to do daily and the consequences of these things not being done daily
4. Tell the children to take out paper and pencils and create a schedule naming all the things
they do when the wake up until they go to bed. Have them to share some of these things,
and after a few of them have shared, teacher will then discuss a variety of health
behaviors the stay can do differently if needed.
5. Give each student a crossword puzzle. This is to be completed in class.
6. Go over puzzle
7. Review/Questions/Answers
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Pencils
Crossword puzzles
Whiteboard (marker)
Personal health posters (ex: teeth brushing)
Accommodations/ Modifications: For students with low literacy will be provided with picture
word bank for the puzzle. The words will also be stated in Spanish for the Hispanic students.
Evaluation: Students will take a 12 question quiz and a 5 question survey on the teacher’s wiki
page.
Websites: http://www.kids.gov/educators/ed_health.shtml
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=289&id=2146
http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html
Lesson Plan # 3: Safety Prevention
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to identify safety risks in various areas and be able to
identify one or more treatment for each risk. I will refer to some of the Curriculum-Framing
Questions in the unit plan link on the wiki.
Activities: Students will walk around each station and write down current knowledge of safety.
Students will listen to lecture on the topic and retake the test on the topic.
Goal: Students will identify safety hazards and learn the risks, treatments, and preventions for
the different types.
Objective: By the end of the lesson, at least half of the students who rotated through the stations
and listen to the lecture will have the skills to select the correct answer on the post test and find
the appropriate measures to take in case of an unsafe issue occurs.
Cognitive-Understand and Psychomotor- Apply
NHES- 2, 5, 8
AL. Course of Study- Community and Consumer Health 2.1 and Personal Health Safety 2.5 and
2.6
Duration: 1 hr. 5 minutes
Procedures:
1. The teacher will set up 9 stations in the classroom, and the students will rotate between
them before any safety prevention is actually taught. These stations will consist of:
Electricity, fire, gas/radon, stairs, bathtubs, tools & knives, firearms, home alone, and
stranger danger. The students are to write on their chart (this chart is provided by the
teacher) what they feel is the risk of the situation and how they would treat/prevent the
situation.
2. After all of the students have completed the stations, the students are to turn their papers
in and we will discuss safety prevention.
3. Since the teacher will be utilizing this as a post test, the teacher should explain to the
students that this was not a pass-fail test, it was just to see what they knew.
4. The teacher will now introduce the concept of how home, school, and other places should
be safe; however, things we do at home and in some places create unsafe situations.
5. By utilizing the Elmo, the teacher will put up a chart of the 9 stations the students
previously visited and discuss the risks, treatment, and preventions for the situations.
6. The teacher will provide the students with a packet about safety and complete while the
teacher is reviewing the pretest.
7. Allow questions and answers
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Pencil
Paper
Clip Board
Elmo
Safety chart
Pretest
Accommodations/ Modifications: Students who have vision impairment will have an enlarge
print on the chart projected by Elmo and the ESL students will have a bilingual chart pass out to
them.
Evaluation: This lesson will serve as a pre and posttest. The teacher will send the lesson and the
students answer document home so their parents can review and work with their child on safety
procedures. When the students return the following day, we will review and a post test will be
given. The rubric will be used to assess the students’ progress.
Websites: http://www.safekids.org/parents/?gclid=CLG-iODpx6UCFcfe4AodZRRyzg
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageI
d=2814
http://www.childrenssafetynetwork.org/
Lesson Plan # 4: Cooking Apple Crescents for the Fun Feast Friday
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to have the students learn how to incorporate health
foods into a delicious snack that should sometime eat in moderation. This lesson will also get the
students ready and prepare for their field trip at the end of the unit. By giving them a better
understanding of how to follow direction and work as a team when cooking. The students and I
will prepare a fun easy quick meal or snack that will include the selected food. This will be done
at the end of every week on Fun Feast Friday. I will select my favorite food for the first week.
The students will utilize information from approved internet web sites to find great kid recipes.
Activity: The students will be researching a topic on the internet on Monday and cooking on
Friday.
Goal: For the students to use teamwork to follow a recipe using a healthy food.
Objective: During the second cooking activity in the classroom, least 30% of students will be
able to demonstrate their teamwork on how to make decision and follow instruction as a group.
Cognitive- Create, Psychomotor and Affective- Understand
By the end of all the cooking lessons, about 40% of the students will have understood how to
prepare a snack by incorporating a health food into it.
Cognitive-Understand and Psychomotor-Apply
NHES- 7 and 8
Al. Course of Study-Nutrition 2.9
Duration: 45 minutes
Procedures: On the first day of the unit the students will be ask to write down their favorite fruit
and vegetable on a small piece of paper. One paper will be randomly selected at the beginning
of each week on Monday to give the classroom time to purchase the items necessary. The
students will be divided into groups of 3-4. They will use the internet appropriately to search for
quick meal or easy snack on the Monday after the fruit or vegetable is randomly picked. After
decision is made on the selected recipe parents can also help contribute to purchasing the items
for Fun Feast Fridays. On that following Friday each group will be given supplies and a recipe to
follow. The students shall then follow the recipe for mini-apple crescents with the guidance of
me.
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5-6 apples slices
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1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. Sugar
1 tsp. butter
Crescent rolls
First place butter into pan. Second add cinnamon, sugar and apples. Stir while cooking until
apples appear tender. Next un-wrap crescent rolls. Place muffin liners in muffin pan. Then place
the crescent roll in muffin liner. Do not fold. Lastly, spoon apples into roll; then bring up
crescent roll corners and crimp. Prick with fork twice. Cook in 300 degree oven for about 15
minutes. Check to make sure the rolls don't get too brown. Remove from oven, cool for 10
minutes and eat!
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sliced apples
crescent rolls
cinnamon
sugar
water
butter
measuring spoons
muffin pans and muffin liners
pan
tabletop cooking coil
oven access
Accommodations/ Modifications: For my ESL students I will print out material in Spanish and
provide a bilingual translator/instructor for students. These students will access to use different
websites during their research. The students with vision problems will use enlarge printed copies
and for hearing impairment they will use pre-recorded instructions.
Evaluation: An in class assessment will be done on the students. The teacher needs to observe
how well the students worked together and follow directions.
Websites: www.kidsnutritionsimplified.com; www.itools.com/lang/;
www.google.com/language_tools
References
American Red Cross. (2009, February). Home Alone sheets. Health and Safety Department,
Birmingham Area Chapter. Retrieved from Community Health Volunteer manual on
November 2, 2010.
Allgaier, T. (1997-2010). Apple Crescents. A to Z Teacher Stuff, L.L.C. Retrieved from
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/1584.shtml
Thomas, K., Lee, A., & Thomas, J. (2000). Physical Education for Children: Daily Lessons Plans
for Elementary School, 2nd Edition. Human Kinetics Publisher; Champaign, Illinois.