lesson plan

Instructions: Integrated Standards Based Lesson Plan

To be credentialed in California, teacher candidates must successfully create one Standards Based Lesson Plan that incorporates health education. With growing budget concerns, it is essential to be able to teach health across the spectrum of subject areas.

For this assignment, you are to create a health education lesson that is tailored to your specific instructional area (e.g. art, history, chemistry, economics, etc). Your plan must be clear and concise enough to be utilized by a substitute in your classroom. You will need to open the “Lesson Plan Template,” create your own word document, then reattach your lesson plan to submit it.

Points to consider:

· Our class text includes lesson plan ideas and blackline masters for activities in all grades Kindergarten through twelve. Of course, you may use/modify any of these or create your own in order to clearly integrate a health lesson with your content.

· Instructional time period or block

· How long will it take to complete your lesson? It might be one class period or several. How many minutes is your class period?

· Related subject-specific California Common Core standards

· Specify the subject (must be a subject other than health)

· Cite the standard number(s)

· Quote the standard(s) applicable to your lesson plan

· If you are an elementary school teacher, choose the subject(s) you want to cover.

· Math, English, History, Visual/Performing Arts, and Science for all grade levels are available at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/

· Foreign Language and Physical Activity “Frameworks” available at: (use these in place of standards for these subjects) http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/allfwks.asp

· Only standards from the California Department of Education website will be accepted.

· Caution: If using PE Standards, make sure to also use a health standard.

· Related California health education content standards

· Quote the overarching standard(s) and include the standard number

· Quote the content area(s) for your grade

· Quote the specific standard(s) applicable to your lesson plan.

· For example:

Health Education Standard 1: All students will comprehend essential concepts related to enhancing health.

Content area: Growth and Development

K.1.G.2. Name ways in which people are similar and ways in which they are different

K.1.G.5. Name body parts and their functions

· These new health standards were approved on March 12, 2008 for all grades and are available at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/healthstandmar08.pdf

· You must use California health standards from the California Department of Education website, not educational codes or national health standards.

· A minimum of 2 instructional/performance objectives

· What will your students learn from your lesson? At least one objective needs to be health-related, and one needs to be subject-specific related. Example of a health-related objective: “Students will describe the ways that the flu virus can be spread.” These objectives should relate directly to the standards.

· Learning Activity/Procedure

· What are you going to do with your students? Be specific!! This is usually the longest section of the lesson plan. Each objective must be reflected in an activity or procedure.

· List of materials/resources

· What materials do you need to teach your lesson? (May include scissors and paper for an art class, a calculator for a math class, etc).

· Do not attach the materials, just list what materials you would use

· Strategies to help English language learners meet objectives

· How will you help English language learners with your lesson? Hint: a translator is not always available, so be creative in ways to overcome this barrier!

· You should also consider that there could be many different languages spoken in your classroom.

· For some great ideas, check out the following link:

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/teaching_ell.phtml

· Evaluation of student learning

· How will you measure if students met the objectives you set at the beginning of your lesson plan? Be specific and assess each objective!

· Some methods of student evaluation may include: pre-test and post-test of material, student presentations, an exam, group discussion or project, teacher-class question and answer session. If you will grade students on their work, how will you grade them objectively?

· Context

· Where and how does this particular lesson fit in with a larger instructional unit. For example, you may have an integrated health lesson on communicable diseases (such as plague or influenza) that you would include during a unit on the Middle Ages of Europe.

Use the Lesson Plan Template provide on the Blackboard as a reference while writing a lesson plan. All of the elements of the plan should relate to each other: the standards relate to the objectives, which are taught in the learning activity/procedure and assessed in the evaluation of student learning.

These lesson plans are expected to be professional documents. Please proofread your lesson plan for grammatical and spelling errors. Don’t rely on word processing programs to proofread your work. 10% of your grade could be lost due to grammatical or spelling errors!

It is the student’s responsibility to assure his/her lesson plan has been received by the instructor. If for some reason, you are unable to send the document electronically, please e-mail the instructor to make other arrangements.