Daily Lesson Plan for More Comprehensive Prep
Subject: Health Period: 1
Today’s Theme /
Purpose
Eating and access to healthy foods
Essential
Question(s)
What are you eating? How does what you eat affect you? What food options do you have access
to? What is a food desert?
Key Terms /
Vocabulary
Nutrition, Calorie, Protein, Trans Fat (Unsaturated), Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, Carbohydrates,
Sodium, Sugar, Processed Foods, Food Desert
Needed Student
Reminders /
Messages
Remind the students that they should start keeping track of what they eat throughout the day if
they have not already
Key Skills /
Standards
Illinois Learning Standards
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22.A.4b Analyze possible outcomes of
effective health promotion and illness
prevention (e.g., reduction in stress,
improved fitness, lessened likelihood of
injury and illness
22.B.4 Explain social and economic effects
of health problems on individuals and
society (e.g., cost of health care,
reduction in productivity).
23.B.4 Explain immediate and long-term
effects of health habits on the body
systems (e.g., diet/heart disease,
exercise/fat reduction, stress
management/emotional health).
Main Project
Working Towards
Common Core Standards
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Student Learning
Activities
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1 Initiate and
participate effectively in a range of
collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in
groups, and teacher-led) with diverse
partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and
issues, building on others’ ideas and
expressing their own clearly and
persuasively.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4 Present
information, findings, and supporting
evidence clearly, concisely, and logically
such that listeners can follow the line of
reasoning and the organization,
development, substance, and style are
appropriate to purpose, audience, and task
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.1 Write arguments
to support claims in an analysis of
substantive topics or texts, using valid
reasoning and relevant and sufficient
evidence.
Students will (chronologically):
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Advocate for healthy food
choices in their
communities
Start their food logs by recording what foods they eat daily
Fill in vocabulary word table
Students will break up into groups and research and present the
effects that one of the following has on our health: sugar/simple
carbohydrates, sodium, trans fat, saturated fat, cholesterol
Have a class discussion evaluating the video about processed foods:
Do you agree that healthy foods are around for everyone?
Modifications:
Allow students who need
more time to finish the
neighborhood analysis at
home.
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Teacher Instruc.
Activities
Students will list stores in their own neighborhoods and explain
whether or not they live in a food desert and if they have many
healthy food options
Teachers will (chronologically):
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Define nutrition vocabulary words
Give a mini-lesson on reading food labels
Show the student a video about processed foods:
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Introduce the concept of a food desert with this video about Chicago
food deserts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hL6jDyKqMk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP0o8T1mZPI
Assessments of /
for Learning
Students will be assessed with / by:
Enrichment /
Homework
For further studies students can:
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Needed
Resources
Participation in discussions
The group presentation
Analysis of their own neighborhood
Continue their food logs by calculating their daily intake of the
following: fat, sugar, sodium
Continue evaluating their neighborhoods by comparing their store
options to the store options of a neighborhood on the north side of
Chicago
Modifications:
Provide visuals when
defining words.
Give students with learning
disabilities and ELL students
a food label with notes about
the different parts of the
label
Modifications:
Provide students with
examples of healthy and
unhealthy food options to
help with their analyses
Modifications:
Give students who need
extra help a north side
neighborhood to focus on.
Include a list of the stores
found in the neighborhood.
Video about processed foods: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP0o8T1mZPI
Introduce the concept of a food desert with this video about Chicago food deserts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hL6jDyKqMk
Text about the effects of sugar/simple carbohydrates, sodium, trans fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol:
http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/index.html