The goal of this lesson is to increase children's awareness on how to live a healthy lifestyle.
My Technology Integration Plan focuses on our health education. In this lesson student's will learn what it takes to live a healthy lifestyle. My target audience is 12th graders because I used the standards for students at this grade level. By 12th grade students are becoming more independent and there bodies are changing. They need to learn what it takes to keep up with a healthy living to take care of their bodies as they go on to there next stage in life. My lesson incorporates different technologies as well as strategies to enhance student learning.
My first row or standard of my matrix deals with determining the relationship of nutrition and physical activity to weight loss, weight gain, and maintenance. What I plan to do is give the students a mini lecture to understanding how nutrition and physical activity work together in order to achieve weight loss or weight gain goals. Here they will learn how certain diets with different types of exercises work together to achieve ones physical goals. After the lecture I will present a short video that further explains and supports my mini lecture. From there I will engage the class in a class discussion within answering questions and concerns pertaining to the topic. I will also introduce to them the Eat-&move-o-matic application that shows how foods and how they effect the body.
The second standard I will be addressing to my students compares and contrasts the dietary trends and eating habits of adolescents and young adults in the United States and other countries. Similar to my first row I will introduce a video comparing the and contrasting different habits of eating throughout other countries to our country. They will learn that we have one of the highest percentages of obese people compared to other parts of the world and they will learn why and how different nutrition is taken in other parts of the world. After the video I will lecture as they take notes on eating habits of kids there age and explain how nutrition can be taken more seriously through simple approaches. After the lecture I will keep the class open for discussion and show students the healthy eating diagrams and healthy recipes that are easy for there age group to make/eat.
My last standard I will be discussing is to analyze the unique contributions of each nutrient class (fats, carbohydrates, protein, water, vitamins, and minerals) to one’s health. I will give handouts regarding information on each nutrient class and why they are important and the breakdown of how much our body needs of each in order to maintain weight, lose weight, or gain weight. After they complete the reading I will spend a few minutes giving them my input and teaching them how to calculate macronutrients in order to develop a diet/ weight training plan. Once this is done students will be put into groups and allowed to use computers to create a powtoon presentation that touches on what they have learned as well as creating a 1 week diet/workout plan.
Overall this lesson is going to give proper baseline for students to understand the importance of living a healthy life, as well learning the potential negatives if not done so. The use of technology and videos in this lesson will help students be more engaged and the visuals of videos will give the students a better understanding on what the lesson is trying to teach them.
