My classmate presentation was about nutrition and physical activity. She based her presentation on the California State Health Standard for 9th grade standard 1: Essential concepts. My classmate presentation was very informative and concise. Her slides had enough information for the reader to learn from the presentation. I believe the PowerPoint presentation was effective in promoting health because it provided the definition of what nutrition is. On one of the slides, it talked about the US food plate. This is a diagram of all the food groups and how many portions a person must consume a day. The diagram colorful and contain pictures of all the foods that belong in each food group. I think this is beneficial for younger students and visual
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First, I would teach the vocabulary and the definitions. Next I will talk about what is nutrition. I will fill out a KWL chart and ask student what they know about nutrition, what they want to know and at the end as an informal assessment, they will fill out what they learned. For my following lesson, I will talk about the Food Plate diagram. I will discuss about the different food groups and portions. I will bring in real fruit and some food for the kids to touch, smell, and eat. I will give them one plate form them to color code it. Next, I will give them food from each food group so they can put it on their plate per their food group. Finally, we will do an all class picture sort. I will draw on butcher paper a large plate diagram. I will have tons of food cut outs and have all the students sort and paste on the graph. At the end of the lesson, student will know what food goes with what food group. Finally, for physical activity we will discuss what that is and what we can do to be physically active. I will give out notebooks for students to use as physical activity journals. I want them to write down what kind of physical activity they are doing that week. At the end of the week, we will take a field trip to the local YMCA so that the students can enjoy doing different physical activities such as: Zumba, swimming, using gym some gym equipment, run track, gymnastics etc. I will encourage physical activity by
First, I would teach the vocabulary and the definitions. Next I will talk about what is nutrition. I will fill out a KWL chart and ask student what they know about nutrition, what they want to know and at the end as an informal assessment, they will fill out what they learned. For my following lesson, I will talk about the Food Plate diagram. I will discuss about the different food groups and portions. I will bring in real fruit and some food for the kids to touch, smell, and eat. I will give them one plate form them to color code it. Next, I will give them food from each food group so they can put it on their plate per their food group. Finally, we will do an all class picture sort. I will draw on butcher paper a large plate diagram. I will have tons of food cut outs and have all the students sort and paste on the graph. At the end of the lesson, student will know what food goes with what food group. Finally, for physical activity we will discuss what that is and what we can do to be physically active. I will give out notebooks for students to use as physical activity journals. I want them to write down what kind of physical activity they are doing that week. At the end of the week, we will take a field trip to the local YMCA so that the students can enjoy doing different physical activities such as: Zumba, swimming, using gym some gym equipment, run track, gymnastics etc. I will encourage physical activity by