Unit Block Plan
East Hartford Public Schools
Core Unit: Personal & Mental Health
Pacing (# of Lessons) 6– 8
Health Education
Topic: Goal Setting/ and Communication/
Grade level: 11
# of Students:
Time:
Standards: (Healthy Lifestyle Framework)
Standards
Description
H-1.6, 3.6, 7.1
H-1.2
H.1.6. Use and evaluate appropriate strategies to promote well-being, delay onset and
reduce risks of potential health problems during adulthood
H.3.6. Evaluate and apply appropriate stress management strategies
H.7.1. Demonstrate various strategies when making goal-setting decisions to enhance
health
H.1.2. Describe the inter-relationship of mental, emotional, social and physical health
throughout adulthood
Common Core Standards:
Standards
CCSS.RI,11-12.2,
CCSS.W.10.9-12
Description
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Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their
development over the course of the text, including how they interact and
build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective
summary of the text.
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection,
and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a
range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Big Idea:
Goal-setting and proper communication can provide a vision of success in all areas of life.
Essential Questions:
Can you predict potential benefits and drawbacks of positive/negative communication skills?
Can you detail the difference between a goal and a dream?
Concepts & Skills:
Concepts
1. Communication skills.
2. Partner & Group Skills
3. Interviewing skills
4. Communication & Interviewing connection
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Skills
1. Demonstrate communication skills amongst
individuals.
2. Speaking and listening skills in a group
scenario and partner work.
3. Identify interviewing key skills and the
relationship between effective
communication and interviewing.
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4.
Health Education
Evaluate effective interviewing techniques
and strategies.
Assessment Evidence:
Activating Prior Knowledge
Pre-test
Assessing Knowledge Gained
Post-test
Communicating and Interviewing in partners and
group settings
CBA Type 3
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Health Education
Learning Plan:
Class #
1.
Learning Activities
Product
2.
Pre-test
Communication Skills Class Notes
Communication Drawing Activity
Pre-test
Power point
Type 2 Exit Ticket
3.
Partner Communication Class Notes
Note sheet
4.
Communication Skills Partner
Communication
Communication and Interviewing
CBA Type 3-Essay
Type 2 Exit Ticket
Post-test
Goal Setting PowerPoint and Note
sheet
Goal Brainstorming
Goals Short-term and Long term
“Get moving worksheet”
Post-test
Note sheet
5.
6.
7.
8.
Communicating and
Interviewing CBA Type 3
Worksheet
Essential Questions (DOK)
Can you assess the importance
and value of communication?
Can you think of a unique
method of communication?
Can you propose three
methods of communicating?
How would you evaluate your
partner’s interviewing skills?
What evidence would you cite
to defend the importance of
communications?
How would you evaluate goal
setting?
What justifies the difference
between a dream and a goal?
Modifications/Differentiation:
When available, will partner Ell students with peers of the same language.
Resources:
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N: Drive Health & PE EHHS Health  11th Grade Health

Health Promotion Wave Curriculum
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Health Teacher.com
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