Lesson Plans : High School
Traffic Light Meal and Activity Plans – Red, Yellow and Green choices
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 45 min Overview: Students can use these quick and easy scoring guides to estimate their diet and physical activity (one page each) before or after the Let’s Get Healthy! fair. Serves as an extension activity to get students thinking about their health and answering survey questions. Key Concepts and Standards: Key Concepts: Not all foods and activities are created equal! Standards: National Health Education Standards (NHES) Grades 6-8 • 8.1 Analyze the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health. • 1.8.6 Explain how appropriate health care can promote personal health. • 1.8.7 Describe the benefits of…
Grade Levels: Elementary, High School, Middle School
Subjects: Health, Physical Education
Key Concepts: Fair Preparation, Healthy Choices, Research Methods
Healthy Habits- Pre-activity for Let’s Get Healthy! fair
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 20-40 min Overview: This pre-fair activity helps students orient to what to expect at the fair. The lesson consists of a power point showing the students what to expect at the Let’s Get Healthy! fair, notes embedded in the powerpoint to give the teacher some background on the various stations, a worksheet for the students to fill out during the power point, and worksheet for them to summarize what they learned at the Let’s Get Healthy! fair. Key Concepts and Standards: Key Concepts: To prepare students for the Let’s Get Healthy! fair so they can gain…
Grade Levels: Elementary, High School, Middle School
Subjects: Art, Health, Language Arts, Math, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, Statistics, Technology
Key Concepts: Fair Preparation, Research Methods
Impulsive Choices – How is my health and how do I improve it?
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 2 class periods; Day 1: 10 min; Day 2: 45-55 min Overview: The choices you make in middle school can affect your health now and when you are older. How impulsive you are affects these choices you make. This lesson helps students understand impulsive behavior and their own impulsivity so that they can identify tempting choices and take steps make good choices for their future and not just their present. People with high impulsivity have a higher caloric intake than people with low impulsivity and may have more difficulty in achieving goals. High impulsivity is also associated with addiction. People with…
Grade Levels: High School, Middle School
Subjects: Health, Science
Key Concepts: Healthy Choices, Using Data
Changes in American Mortality
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 90 min Overview: Students will use selected mortality statistics from 1900-2010 to see how the major causes of death in the United States have changed since the early 20th century. Students will be able to read data tables and extract specific information, chart chronological information on a line graph, and interpret that data in a historical context. <Fun fact: Just days after this lesson was written, an article came out in the New England Journal of Medicine with the exact same finding! See the NEJM article here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1113569> Key Concepts and Standards: Key Concepts: Students will be…
Grade Levels: High School, Middle School
Subjects: Math, Science, Social Studies
Key Concepts: Healthy Choices
