Lesson 1

Lesson 1/Entry 1

Health 6^th Grade/Unit

Standards of Learning: Goals

6.1    The student will apply critical-thinking skills and personal-management strategies to address issues and concerns related to personal health and wellness; students will consider their ethnic backgrounds when exploring this area of critical-thinking.

a)      the importance of significant friends or adult mentors

b)      the relationship between self-image and gang-related behaviors

c)      the effects of environmental influences on personal health

d)      refusal strategies related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs

e)      prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases

Objective: Given health issues adolescent face, each student will analyze how their environment and personal health are interrelated. Discover the relationship between self-image and gang-related behaviors. Explore the effects of the environmental influences on personal health.  Students will analyze ways to prevent diseases. Examine ways to resist peer pressure related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. 

Technology inclusion:

Students will apply what they have learned to create a short five slide presentation. The subject area they will cover is "Health". They must choose a presentation package of five to six slides that includes appropriate font size, clip art, and creativity. Students will present their finished product to the class for evaluation.

Learning Activities:

·        Class divided into seven groups of three students (21 students in the class) will complete group activities that assist them in exploring environmental and personal health issues. Discuss their cultural background and how it relates to health issues.

·        Students will have homework assignments to visit the public library and check out at least books and one journal article that are health related. Students will utilize these resources while interacting with peers in group discussion

·        Students will learn how to create a Power Point Presentation.
1. Become acquainted with the power Point Program.
2. Describe the basic features of the Power Point Program.
3. Create and Select a presentation style.
4. Create a short five to six slides Presentation.

·        Students will become more familiar with the information learned by incorporating an in-class activity/a game called good health cues. Students with the most points will earn extra point incentives.

·        Students will gather information on how to reduce risk related to adolescent health. Students will share this information with their class in the Power Point Presentations.

·        Students will divide into groups and discuss the relationship drugs, alcohol, tobacco, inhalants, and other harmful substances to body functioning

·        Students will submit a five to six slide PowerPoint presentation on how appropriate health care can prevent premature death to include information from the standards listed above. Students will be required to check out books at the public library and utilize one journal article.

Evaluation Procedures:

Teacher-made tests and quizzes

Present findings

            Group discussion/group work

            Papers and Power Point presentations

            In class activities