LESSON PLAN

Course:                       10G Foods and Nutrition

Unit 1:                         The Individual and Food Needs

Lesson:                        Nutritional and Caloric Needs

Lesson Duration:        60 minutes     

 

Major Concepts/Enduring Understandings:

·         Nutrition is the science of food and their nutrients

·         The energy value of food is measured in calories/kilojoules

·         Knowledge of the basic nutrients and their sources

Learning Objectives/Outcomes

·         Students will relate nutrition to growth, development and energy needs

·         Students will identify the six types of nutrients

·         Students will track and identify whether they are getting enough nutrients from each food group

Social Skill Objectives

·         Students will listen actively

·         Students will use quiet voices in the classroom

·         Students will help each other with technology or calculation problems

Materials/Learning Resources

·         List of teacher questions

·         Smartboard

·         Word Splash on Smartboard

·         Nutrients Word Meaning Activity Sheet

·         Nutrient flashcards, Nutrition label poster

·         YouTube video: Planning for Good Eating

·         Bring your own device/BYOD: laptop, smartphone, tablet, ipad

Lesson Procedures    

1.      Lesson Introductions (Activating Strategies)

·         Display Word Splash Activity on Smartboard. These words are all of the key concepts related to the lesson.  Taking turns, have the students circle the words that they know, ask them to define the concept after circling the word.  If there are any words remaining, teacher clarifies the meaning of each. 

·         Ask the students to write down 2 predictions of what they think the lesson will be about.  Ask the students to share their predictions with each other in groups of four (they are already seated in groups of four).

·         Teachers Dashboard: Introduce the lesson objectives for today. Discussion: how well did the students predict the lesson today? 

 

2.      Development (Acquiring Strategies)

·         The students will review and ask questions on the Nutrients Word Meaning sheet.

·         Teacher will do a presentation on nutrients using the nutrients flashcards and nutrients poster.

·         Before playing the Planning for Good Eating video on the Smartboard, the teacher will explain its relevance. (8:29 minutes)

·         Play the video:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58eFNxlLr5s

·         Large group discussion on the video, learning outcomes of the video, use teacher discussion points to link the video to the nutrients cards

·         Small groups:  use your devices to search the internet to find information on nutritional diseases: record – name of disease, what causes it, what geographical region it generally occurs in, and how to prevent or reverse it.  They have 5 minutes.

·         Advise students of one minute remaining, large group discussion on their findings.

·         Teacher led question: is it important to make sure that you are eating a wide range of nutrients? Why?

 

3.      Development (Applying Strategies)

·         Ask students to login/sign up to Sparkpeople.com: http://www/sparkpeople.com

·         Let students know that I am not leading them to this site to lose weight but to use the tools and nutrition information.  Go to My Tracker, Calorie Counter and Calorie Calculator.  We will use these tools today. 

·         Doing a 24 hour food-recall, ask students to input information on all of the food and beverages that they have consumed over the past 24 hours.  Be sure to put the dates in too. 

·         Go to the charts section and Sparkpeople will give a pie chart of nutrient type consumed.  Discuss these in class.  Referring to the nutrient posters shown earlier, how did the students do –did they get enough of each type of nutrients? Ask each student to write down two nutrients goals.  Ie. Maybe they need to drink more water, eat more veggies. 

·         Ask the students whether they found this interesting and fun, get some feedback!

·         Let the students know that the lesson is now over.

 

4.      Closing

·         Homework:  as part of our ongoing learning, teacher asks students to track their food intake for the next week.  This will give a better indication of what nutrients their bodies are short on.  Ask them to set a reminder for themselves either on their phones, watches, or written down.

 

Assessment of Lesson

·         Teacher is monitoring what concepts are unknown during the Word Splash activity and ensuring these are covered.

·         Teacher is assessing knowledge using the Word Meaning sheets used during the nutrition flash cards and nutrition poster activity

·         Student is self-assessing their nutrient intake and making decisions about what they want to change.

 

Teacher Reflections

·         Did students seem interested in the lesson content?

·         Were students actively listening during discussion, video, and using their devices?

·         Were there any technology glitches? How did we work through these?

·         Do students have a good grasp of nutrients? Calories? Kilojoules?

·         Was the technology relevant?