Lesson Plan Template

Introduction

Our students are bombarded by the media (glamour and muscle magazines, Hollywood, television infomercials) about how they should look and feel about their body’s. The overall objective of this lesson is to make the student aware of the indoctrination that is taking place and the ill-effects that can happen as a result. Additionally, it is with high hopes that the lesson can change the thinking of students, in particular young girls, with regards to their body-types and help in accepting their God-given body-type.

Outcomes

Upon completion of this lesson, the students will:

- Know dietary products are labeled based on 2000 calories per day.

- Realize marketing decisions have intended and unintended consequences on our health.

- Know that caloric reduction diets are not always the best means of controlling weight.

- Know there is a difference between weight and body fat.

- Realize that society’s depiction of the “perfect body” does potential harm to young women as well as young men.

- Know they may lose or gain weight but will never change their body “type”.

Standards

HE H.S.3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

The students will access valid health information and health-promoting products and services. High school students will critique the validity of health information, health promoting products, and services to prevent and detect health problems. Using critical thinking and analysis skills, high school students will be able to assess the validity of health

information and products and services used in the prevention, early detection, and treatment of health problems

Resources:

Off-line: Health textbook

On-line:

The following is the URL to: “Get Fat, Gain Weight, And Become As Unfit As Possible”. It is a whimsical, almost “backward”, spoof, which looks at health in a different way. This video is shown to hook the students.

Get Fat, Gain Weight, and Become as Unfit as Possible

Integration of Technology

Edcanvas: Students will use the online presentation tool edcanvas to access information related to nutrition and its effects on fitness levels.

http://www.edcanvas.com/lessons/iaFws7GBj5LRFg/nutrition

Scoop It: Students will use the online presentation tool Scoop It to access information related to aerobic fitness and its effects upon fitness levels, and burning of body fat. http://www.scoop.it/t/aerobichealth

Powtoon: Students will use this online presentation tool as an example of healthy living and will create one of their own specific to their age and lifestyle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p_56tpCgHWE#!

Thinglink: Students will view the thinglink and access the information that is presented in it. Students will then design their own presentation that incorporates five different media resources for their peers. http://www.thinglink.com/scene/398122346990272514

Materials

Computer labInternet access

Process

Students will be accessing different forms of information about nutrition, exercise, and the effects each have on their health. Students will have use of the school computer lab in order to create their own online presentations for nutrition and health.

Expected outcomes are:

Upon completion of this lesson, the students will:

- Know dietary products are labeled based on 2000 calories per day.

- Realize marketing decisions have intended and unintended consequences on our health.

- Know that caloric reduction diets are not always the best means of controlling weight.

- Know there is a difference between weight and body fat.

- Realize that society’s depiction of the “perfect body” does potential harm to young women as well as young men.

- Know they may lose or gain weight but will never change their body “type”.

 

Assessment

There will be a pre-test given on the information to be covered in order for the teacher to gain information on the students’ prior knowledge of the information being covered. At the end of the lesson there will be a post-test given to assess what the students have learned.

Extensions/Modifications

- Struggling students may brainstorm in a small cooperative group a reduced number of “Fad” diets (three). Together they will submit the information for three of the “Fad” diets from most risky to least.

- To challenge students, students will research a celebrity that has used one of the “Fad” diets and what his/her experience was and not if this supports or goes against your original degree of risk.