Lesson Plans : Using Data
Data Analysis and Action Plan – That’s not just a number, that’s me!
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 3 days Overview: Small groups briefly research a health problem to understand causes, measurement and risk. Each group then analyzes related data from the Let’s Get Healthy! fair and identifies areas to be flagged for risk. Groups list variables that will affect health outcomes and present their findings. Key Concepts and Standards: Key Concepts: Cause, measurement, risk, analyze, research, presentation Standards: Download the briefing sheet about how this lesson meets standards (.docx) The standards listed were identified using key concepts from each individual lesson. These key concepts were aligned with the specific Oregon State Standards, Common…
Grade Levels: Elementary, Middle School
Subjects: Health, Language Arts, Physical Education, Social Studies, Technology
Key Concepts: Advocacy, Healthy Choices, Using Data
Correlation/ Cause and Effect – Sharks vs Ice Cream
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 45 minutes Overview: Is there a connection between shark attacks and ice cream sales? Knowing and recording information is important, but making correct conclusions is the key to meaningful knowledge and accurate understanding. Students will use graphs and data from the “Let’s Get Healthy” fair to identify comparative strengths of correlations and how correlations correspond to cause and effect. They will identify graphs depicting comparative strengths, analyze data from the “Let’s Get Healthy” fair, and determine correlations don’t always show a cause and effect. Key Concepts and Standards: Key Objectives • Students will identify graph depicting comparative…
Grade Levels: Middle School
Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
Key Concepts: Research Methods, Using Data
Applying “Project Citizen” to Let’s Get Healthy!
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: Varies with level and resolution. Students focusing on identifying an individual goal and writing it up as a S.M.A.R.T. Goal will take about 45 minutes. Project Citizen will require a more extended commitment of time to complete all six steps and to present final portfolio(s) to a governing body whether that is a school's administration, school board, local city council or state legislative committee. Overview: Project Citizen, a program co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Education, is a curriculum where students learn how to influence public policy by studying problems in their own community. It is designed…
Grade Levels: High School, Middle School
Subjects: Health, Language Arts, Math, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Key Concepts: Advocacy, Healthy Choices, Using Data
Student Advocacy for Healthy Schools
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Students explore how various health factors affect their ability to learn. Then, discuss changes to school policy and how those proposed changes would affect various stakeholders in an educational community as part of simulated public meetings. Student Advocacy for Healthy Schools Estimated Lesson Duration: 5 classes Overview Students will learn how health factors, such as sleep and diet, affect their ability to learn. Students will compare general information with specific data from their age set and assess the degree to which their school supports student health. Using this information, students will consider changes to school policy and determine…
Grade Levels: High School, Middle School
Subjects: Health, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Key Concepts: Advocacy, Healthy Choices, Using Data
Four Statistics Exercises using Adolescent Body Mass Index (BMI) Data
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 1-2 class periods Overview: Students use data collected at Let’s Get Healthy! school events to 1) learn the differences between observational studies and experiments; 2) apply descriptive statistics to data; 3) construct and interpret confidence intervals; and 4) perform statistical hypothesis testing with authentic Let's Get Healthy! data. This lesson is designed to introduce students to the concept of confidence intervals for sample means and the reason for the sample size requirement when data is not normally distributed. The exercise uses data from the “Let’s Get Healthy” health fairs conducted in 2010-2011 school year from nine middle…
Grade Levels: High School
Subjects: Math, Statistics
Key Concepts: Using Data
Statistics! – Understanding Confidence Intervals
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 1-2 class periods Overview: How confident are you that a number will fall within a certain range? Explore confidence intervals with your students! Great for data or election polls! Created for advanced placement (AP) statistics classes. This lesson is designed to introduce students to the concept of confidence intervals for sample means and the reason for the sample size requirement when data is not normally distributed. The exercise uses data from the “Let’s Get Healthy” health fairs conducted in 2010-2011 school year from nine middle schools from eight school districts. The exercise is designed so that individual…
Grade Levels: High School
Subjects: Math, Statistics
Key Concepts: Using Data
Interpreting Maps – An Exploration of Health Trends in the United States
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: 90 minutes Overview: Students will use their powers of observation to analyze data from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data will be in the form of maps and tables. Students learn to interpret maps to discover the rate of change of obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases. They can play the role of detective to detect similar trends among health issues. Key Concepts and Standards: Key Concepts: Analyze, data, center for disease control, map, inferences, thesis Standards: OR.SS.8.27 Examine the various characteristics, causes, and effects of an event, issue, or problem. OR.SS.8.28 Investigate a…
Grade Levels: High School, Middle School
Subjects: Health, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Key Concepts: Healthy Choices, Using Data
Physical activity – How healthy are you?
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: Five 45 minute lessons Overview: Students will analyze their own physical activity level, present their data, and compare it to the suggested activity level for adolescents. This lesson is a unit consisting of five smaller lessons. It can be used for physical education or health classes or as part of math, statistics or science classes related to how to collect data and administer surveys. Lesson 1: Gathering information – taking an activity survey Lesson 2: What the Experts Say – Wed-based article review in a “Jigsaw” fashion Lesson 3: Making data make sense – creating an organized…
Grade Levels: Elementary, Middle School
Subjects: Health, Math, Physical Education, Science, Statistics
Key Concepts: Advocacy, Fair Preparation, Healthy Choices, Research Methods, Using Data
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
Graph Literacy
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Estimated Lesson Duration: Three stand-alone lessons, each one class period Overview: This lesson includes three graphing lessons that can be taught independently or as a unit to help students analyze and explain graphs. Includes lessons on 1) using graphs to infer relationships between variables; 2) common mistakes and intentional distortions in graphs; and 3) interpreting a graph and writing a narrative summary. The lessons are intended to help students analyze and explain graphs and are not intended to help students make their own graphs. Key Concepts and Standards: Key Concepts: How to read and explain a line graph, pie…
Grade Levels: Middle School
Subjects: Math, Science, Social Studies
Key Concepts: Research Methods, Using Data
