Unit Plan

Unit overview: Students will learn the importance of eating properly and the impact it has on their life.

Connections to Previous Learning: Students have previously learned in health class the importance of making good choices that effect their life. Eating healthy and paying attention to the food pyramid is another way they can make healthy choices for life.

Focus of the Unit: I will be focusing on the various food groups on the food pyramid, also known as, My Pyramid. I will teach the students how they can modify the intake of their food for their specific needs and requirements to be healthy. 

Connections to Subsequent Learning: This eating healthy unit will connect to the following units that promote healthy lifestyles, such as: staying away from drugs, minimizing risky life choices, and keeping their pyramid of social, physical, and mental health right.

Desired Outcomes
Standard(s)—include content and iNACOL: - 22.D.4a Identify health resources to help influence others in making healthy choices. - The online teacher plans, designs, and incorporates strategies to encourage active learning, application, interaction, participation, and collaboration in the online environment
Transfer:  Students will apply… The information they’re learning in class about healthy eating and the food pyramid, to their everyday lives. This way, they will be able to see a real, and practical, benefit to the lessons we’re learning in class.
Understandings:  Students will understand that … The choices they make every day, regarding their food, will have a long-lasting impact upon them; even if they don’t realize it this early in their lives.
Essential Questions: Key questions that will be answered for the students are… - What potential side effects will the body go through if you don’t eat properly? - What risk factors are you minimizing for yourself when you choose to eat properly?
Prerequisite Skills/Concepts: Students must know that food effects your body, and how your body feels throughout the day. The don’t have to know to what extent, just the fact that food plays an important role in your daily activity level and how you feel.			Advanced Skills/Concepts: Students will be able to apply these skills to more advanced ideas such as: what might an athlete need, what might someone trying to lose weight in a healthy manor need, what might someone trying to gain weight in a healthy manor need.
Knowledge:  Students will know… The various sections of the food pyramid and what foods make up each section.			Skills:  Students will be able to do… Describe and address the importance of making healthy choices in their everyday life.
Differentiation for ELL, Special Education, Gifted, others: I will have guided notes for the students who are ELL and have special needs. This will allow me to illustrate the notes, or points that are the most important to remember. That way, I won’t have students that are wasting time trying to find where we are, they can just follow along with the guided notes, either on paper or on their tablet.
Academic Vocabulary
Critical Terms: dairy, vegetables, fruits, fats, oils, pasta, bread, meat, poultry, carbohydrates, protein, nutrient, mineral, vitamin.				Supplemental Terms: servings, daily requirements, daily allowance.
Assessments
Pre-Assessment		Formative Assessments		Summative Assessments		Self-Assessments
Pre-Test version of the Unit/Chapter test		Unit/Chapter test		Daily “exit slips” after the lesson that check for understanding.		Group discussions
Sample Lesson Sequence (this table may be repeated)
Lesson title: Introduction into the Food Groups
Lesson Level Objectives: Students will be able to label and describe the food groups.
Learning Activity	Assignment/Activity Description				Objective(s)		Completion Time (hrs)
Readings (textbook, etc.)
Online Lecture Topic
Video	There is an informational video that describes the food groups that I would utilize. I would have the students go to the website and view the video at their convenience.				Students will be able to label the food groups.		.5 classroom hours
Written Assignment	Upon completion of the video, the students will write a paragraph describing what they had just learned.				Students will be able to label and describe the food groups.		.5 classroom hours
Discussion
Assessment
Article/Blog post
Interactive Media
Total Time Commitment							1 classroom hour

Sample Lesson Sequence (this table may be repeated)
Lesson title: Getting Deeper into the Food Groups
Lesson Level Objectives: Students will be able to express their desires for their bodies and what they want to accomplish with their food plans.
Learning Activity	Assignment/Activity Description	Objective(s)	Completion Time (hrs)
Readings (textbook, etc.)
Online Lecture Topic
Video
Written Assignment
Discussion
Assessment
Article/Blog post	Students will work on researching and finding information on their dietary needs. After they are done researching their dietary needs, I will have the students research information regarding the ways you can lose weight in healthy manors, and the ways you can gain weight in healthy manors.	Students will be able to recognize healthy choices that are right for their own personal life choices.	3 classroom hours
Interactive Media
Total Time Commitment			3 classroom hours

Lesson title: Getting Deeper into the Food Groups
Lesson Level Objectives: Students will be able to express their desires for their bodies and what they want to accomplish with their food plans.
Learning Activity	Assignment/Activity Description	Objective(s)	Completion Time (hrs)
Readings (textbook, etc.)
Online Lecture Topic
Video
Written Assignment
Discussion	We will have a group discussion that will allow students to bring ideas of various methods of modifying their intake to get their desired outcome. This will allow students to bounce ideas off of each other and learn new healthy practices.	Students will be able to express their desires for their bodies and what they want to accomplish with their food plans.	1 classroom hours
Assessment
Article/Blog post
Interactive Media
Total Time Commitment			1 classroom hour

Lesson title: The Students Have Become The Teachers
Lesson Level Objectives: Students will be able to describe the information they have learned to their peers.
Learning Activity	Assignment/Activity Description	Objective(s)	Completion Time (hrs)
Readings (textbook, etc.)
Online Lecture Topic
Video
Written Assignment
Discussion
Assessment
Article/Blog post
Interactive Media	Students will utilize the media tool they used earlier, Brain Pop Jr., to help teach other students about their food groups. Students will use this tool to present to their classmates. They will stand in front of the room and teach them the important information they have just learned.	Students will be able to describe the information they have learned to their peers.	2 classroom hours
Total Time Commitment			2 classroom hours

Lesson title: Pre-Review Activity
Lesson Level Objectives: Students will be able to recall knowledge previously learned in the unit.
Learning Activity	Assignment/Activity Description	Objective(s)	Completion Time (hrs)
Readings (textbook, etc.)	Students will work, independently, on their review sheet. The students will have time to utilize their book if necessary.	Students will be able to recall knowledge previously learned in the unit.	1 classroom hour
Online Lecture Topic
Video
Written Assignment
Discussion
Assessment
Article/Blog post
Interactive Media
Total Time Commitment			1 classroom hour

  

Lesson title: Review Kahoot! Game
Lesson Level Objectives: Students will be able to demonstrate their retained knowledge in a fun review activity.
Learning Activity	Assignment/Activity Description	Objective(s)	Completion Time (hrs)
Readings (textbook, etc.)
Online Lecture Topic
Video
Written Assignment
Discussion
Assessment
Article/Blog post
Interactive Media	Students will work with the teacher and review for their test the following day. Students will play a fun review game called Kahoot! This game allows teachers and students to see immediate feedback for questions they might need more studying for.	Students will be able to demonstrate their retained knowledge in a fun review activity.	1 classroom hour
Total Time Commitment			1 classroom hour

  

Lesson title: Lesson Exam
Lesson Level Objectives: Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge retained over the food groups unit
Learning Activity	Assignment/Activity Description	Objective(s)	Completion Time (hrs)
Readings (textbook, etc.)
Online Lecture Topic
Video
Written Assignment
Discussion
Assessment	Formal assessment over the information we just learned. Students will be required to complete a test to check for comprehension.	Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge retained over the food groups unit.	1 classroom hour
Article/Blog post
Interactive Media
Total Time Commitment			1 classroom hour