KIN 3609 Health Lesson Plan Format

Room 130

Group Members: Kara Deutch

Grade
Level: 3rd

Class
Size: 26

Group # 2
Length of time: 30
(min)

Teaching Date:
10/15/13

Class Time: 1:05pm

Lab School Teacher: Mrs. Chandler

Content Area: Environmental Health

HealthGoal/Focus: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
STANDARD/BENCHMARK/GLEs:
Standard: Student will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
Benchmark(s): 5-E-1 Illustrate the outcomes of a health-related decision

GLE(s): 5-E-1.1 Identify health-related situations that require a thoughtful decision

LEARNINGOBJECTIVES (TLW)
Who?Will do?How much?Of What? By when?
Cognitive: TLW recognize important facts about our environmental health and be able to make
environmentally friendly decisions on how to fix it, by the end of the lesson

Affective: TLW interact with group members by planning a cohesive strategy on what the box will look like,
by the end of the lesson

Psychomotor: TLW construct a recycling bin with different given materials by the end of the lesson

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION(TTW) What method? Should match learning objectives:

Cognitive: At the end of the class, TTW administer a quiz on what different objects go in a recycling bin

Affective: TTW observe the groups and monitor group behavior making sure everyones engaged

Psychomotor: TTW observe the students and make sure they made their recycling bins effectively
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 TEACHING MATERIALS(be specific and detailed):

-6 spray painted cardboard boxes (1 per group)
-120 different colored pipe cleaners (20 per group)
-500 stickers of all shapes, sizes and colors (split up randomly into cups)
-18 LSU cups (3 per group) filled with fun stickers
-6 fun/positive facts about Environmental Health printed out and taped on boxes
-6 glue bottles (1 per group)

RESOURCES(e.g. websites, textbook including page #s):

-Meeks Textbook (pg 362-366)
-www.recyclingfactsforkids.com
-www.epa.gov

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS (including physical, emotional andsocial enviorment):

-making sure the students behavior within the groups is acceptable
-bullying, know-it-all, tormentors

MODIFICATIONS/ACCOMODATIONS:
-have extra boxes in case a child with ADHD, or someone being left out, to make their own box

INTEGRATION:(Subject and description of how it relates)

-Art: decorating boxes
-Science: Environmental Focus/Facts
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LESSON PROCEDURES/ACTIVITIES:
Time Activity Description
1:05- Anticipatory Set: Has anyone ever littered or seen someone
1:08 litter before? If you have seen someone litter before, how
many of you have done something about it?

Instant Activity (Teacher Instruction/Demonstration):

1:081:15 Writing good/bad things for our environment/earth on the board

outside and within an already drawn world. Or if I cant use the

board (because the smart board is kind of in the way) I will ask
students to get out one sheet of paper and one pencil for each pod
and as a group come up with 3 good things and 3 bad things for our
environment on that sheet of paper. A discussion about these
topics will follow.

Teacher Cues
Raise your hand.
Introduce
GEAUX TIGERS

Organization

RAISE YOUR HAND

and tell us
something good
and/or bad for the
earth that your
group came up
with. Why?

Transition: Ok class, now that weve gone over things that are good and bad for our environment, Im
going to give you some facts you may not have known.
1:15- Instant Activity (Student Engagement)
1:20
Giving students fun/not so fun facts about our environmental
health. Introduce the importance of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Did you know?

Incorporate the
students, dont just
sit there and read
the facts.

1:20- Transition: giving the students instruction about creating their boxes (recycling bins)
1:22
Time Activity Description
Teacher Cues
Do not touch the
1:22- Culminating Activity(Teacher Instruction/Demonstration)
boxes until given
1:32
Students will get a box for their group of 4 or 5. They will each get
plenty materials (already in the box) and get to decorate their own
recycling bin. They will be given clear instruction on what they are
to do. I will explain the activity and then hand out the boxes.
Students will have roughly 10 minutes to decorate their boxes. They
can be as creative as they want.

Organization

instruction to do
so. Everyone must
participate and
contribute
something to the
box. Monitor class,
answer any
questions

Transition:
1:22- Culminating Activity (Student Engagement):

Walk around making

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1:32

Depending on how much time we have, this time will be given to

continue to decorate the boxes or if I see that the students are
done creating their boxes some of the groups can come up and
present their box and explain their decorations. Or if the students
are done decorating their boxes but there isnt enough time to
present all of them, the groups can bring their boxes to the front,
line them up and everyone can walk by looking at all the different
recycling bins.

sure students are

decorating
cooperatively. See if
there are any volunteers
to present their box.

1:32- Transition: tell students to start wrapping up, tell them how much time they have exactly to work on
1:33 the boxes. We will walk around collecting the boxes indicating that time is up.
1:33- Closure: I will give a quiz about what goes in a recycling bin and
1:35 what goes in the trash. Students will find out things they might not
have known before about what can be recycled and what cannot.

Have different objects

on a desk or in a box and
I will take them out
individually, and call on
students asking whether
it goes in a recycling bin
or trash can. Ask why?
RAISE YOUR HAND!