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:
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Nutrition is the
science of food and their nutrients
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The energy value
of food is measured in calories/kilojoules
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Knowledge of the
basic nutrients and their sources
Learning Objectives/Outcomes
·
Students will
relate nutrition to growth, development and energy needs
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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)
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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.
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Before playing
the Planning for Good Eating video on the Smartboard, the teacher will explain
its relevance. (8:29 minutes)
·
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.
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Teacher led question:
is it important to make sure that you are eating a wide range of nutrients?
Why?
3. Development
(Applying Strategies)
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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.
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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
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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
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Teacher is
monitoring what concepts are unknown during the Word Splash activity and
ensuring these are covered.
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Teacher is
assessing knowledge using the Word Meaning sheets used during the nutrition
flash cards and nutrition poster activity
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Student is
self-assessing their nutrient intake and making decisions about what they want
to change.
Teacher Reflections
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Did students seem
interested in the lesson content?
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Were students
actively listening during discussion, video, and using their devices?
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Were there any
technology glitches? How did we work through these?
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Do students have
a good grasp of nutrients? Calories? Kilojoules?
·
Was the
technology relevant?
Who are the digital natives? Definition: “Digital Natives are people who have grown
up in the digital world using technology as a way to communicate, record,
educate, and understand society. Today's tweens and teens are digital natives
as they have had access to computers, cell phones, email, and other forms of
technology since birth. Digital Natives speak the language of technology and
are as comfortable with technology as past generations have been with pen and
paper.” (O’Donnell, 2012)