Digital Unit Plan Template Unit Title: How Healthy Am I? Name: Ryan Carroll Content Area: Physical Education Grade Level: 8 CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s): CA Content Standard 4.5: Explain the effects of nutrition and weight control and self-concept. CA Content Standard/ Common Core Standard 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. (Reading) CA Content Standard/ Common Core Standard 2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including career development documents (e.g., simple business letters and job applications), to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. (Writing) Big Ideas/Unit Goals: The goals for this unit are for the students to understand the words and phrases in nutrition, to understand correct meal choices and how to plan their own meals by choosing the right kinds of foods, to practice reading the food pyramid and understand portion sizes, to analyze articles on nutrition to gain new insight on this topic, and for students to understand nutrition well enough that they can apply the information they learned for the rest of their lives. Unit Summary: The nutrition unit gets the students understanding the importance of evaluating what they eat all of the time so that they know they are making the best choice for their body. Students will be able to understand specific nutrition terms and concepts through reading articles and be able to apply the concepts through structured writing. They will understand key nutrients that are crucial to the body. Students will also create an iPad lesson that will help students understand nutrients and how to apply the nutrients to their diet. The students comprehend an article about the food pyramid and gain new insight to understand the
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Digital Unit Plan Template
Unit Title: How Healthy Am I? Name: Ryan Carroll
Content Area: Physical Education Grade Level: 8
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
CA Content Standard 4.5: Explain the effects of nutrition and weight control and self-concept.CA Content Standard/ Common Core Standard 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. (Reading)CA Content Standard/ Common Core Standard 2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including career development documents (e.g., simple business letters and job applications), to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. (Writing)
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:
The goals for this unit are for the students to understand the words and phrases in nutrition, to understand correct meal choices and how to plan their own meals by choosing the right kinds of foods, to practice reading the food pyramid and understand portion sizes, to analyze articles on nutrition to gain new insight on this topic, and for students to understand nutrition well enough that they can apply the information they learned for the rest of their lives.
Unit Summary:
The nutrition unit gets the students understanding the importance of evaluating what they eat all of the time so that they know they are making the best choice for their body. Students will be able to understand specific nutrition terms and concepts through reading articles and be able to apply the concepts through structured writing. They will understand key nutrients that are crucial to the body. Students will also create an iPad lesson that will help students understand nutrients and how to apply the nutrients to their diet. The students comprehend an article about the food pyramid and gain new insight to understand the correct serving amounts the students are choosing what to eat. Through activities, students can determine if what they are about to eat is either good for them or not, which will help eliminate certain foods from their diets by just knowing basic nutrition. All of the activities are meant to give the student in-depth knowledge on nutrition and give them tools to plan and determine what they should be ingesting on their own.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
- Survey: Survey Monkey; How healthy am I?
- Quick Write: Discuss your knowledge on
Formative:
- KWL Chart: Students will create a KWL chart in response to the food pyramid article.
Summative:
- Nutrition Project: Poster on the knowledge of the unit of nutrition.
nutrition. - Quiz: Various key nutrients in various foods & various types of vitamins.
- Critical Thinking Questions: Questions about the unit that make students think in-depth.
- Rankings: Most important key nutrients for your body.
- Essay: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the unit by responding to a relevant prompt.
Lesson 1
Student Learning Objective:
Students will be able to identify, analyze, evaluate and apply concepts of key nutrients to eating healthy.
Acceptable Evidence (Assessments):
Students will take a survey on nutrition.
Students will write a quick write on their previous knowledge of nutrition.
The students will rank words and phrases in importance.
Lesson Activities:- Students will take a survey on nutrition.- Students will write a quick write their previous knowledge on nutrition.- The students will first listen/watch a PowerPoint lecture on the basics of nutrition and its importance to apply the information in their lives.- The teacher will do a read aloud with the article on nutrition. The students will have a copy of the article in front of them where they will follow along.- There will then be a class discussion on the important ideas and terms from the article.- The students will then get in pairs and write a list down of the most influential words/phrases to them and rank them from 1-10 (1 being the least important).
Lesson 2
Student Learning Objective:
Students will be able to recognize key nutrients in a variety of different food items.
Acceptable Evidence:
Students will have to answer questions in a quiz format on key nutrients.
Students have to create an iPad collage of key nutrients in foods.
Nutrition Poster Project
Lesson Activities:-Lecture on key nutrients. The lecture is to be shorter than the previous lesson. The lecture will cover some information from the last class as well as types of food that nutrients are found in.- Next, the students will take a nutrition quiz to check for understanding.- Students will then find a partner and discuss each other’s answers and if a question was answered wrong, the students must work together to try to find a solution.- The last activity is to explain the iPad lesson. The teacher shows the students a couple example of the work he expects them to do- Explain the project and discuss the rubric.
Lesson 3
Student Learning Objective:
Students will be able to identify and apply portion sizes to their personal diet.
Acceptable Evidence:
Students will create a KWL chart that will assess their understanding of the readings and the concepts discussed in the lesson.
Students will answer critical thinking questions written on the board.
Students will write a summative essay to show their knowledge of nutrition.
Lesson Activities: - First, students will read article on the food pyramid where they will learn about portion sizes and how many fruits and vegetables they should have a day. This will help to guide students in the right direction about what they should plan to eat for meals.- Students will fill out a KWL chart before and after reading the article.- Lecture on nutrition planning, the teacher gives a PowerPoint presentation about examples of a meal plan that includes what and how much is in the plan. The lecture also describes serving sizes, how to portion foods, and counting calories.- Lastly, students will be using calorie counters on the computers/phones to determine their calorie intakes with their daily routines, so they know how many calories they can ingest through out the day.- Prompt for the short essay is given. Students have 20 minutes to complete it.
Survey- How Healthy Am I?Quick Write- Discuss your knowledge on nutrition.
KWL Chart- Food pyramid article.Quiz- Various key nutrients in various foods & various types of vitamins.Critical-Thinking Questions- Questions about the unit that make students think in-depth.Ranking- Most important key nutrients for your body.
Essay- Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the unit by responding to a relevant prompt.Project- Poster on the knowledge of the unit of nutrition.
- The ___________________________ or obtaining the ______________ necessary for ______________ and ________________. The study of _________________________________.
- Question: What does nutrition mean to you? _____________________________________________________________________.
KEY NUTRIENTS FOR YOUR
BODY
- These nutrients are____________________________________________________.
- Name the six key nutrients:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- React to the video on key nutrients:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
WATER
- Water helps ______________________ homeostasis in the body and ________________________________________ to cells.- Water also ____________________ removing ________________________ fromthe body.- You should drink _____________ glasses of water daily.- ________________ body temperature.
- How much of your body is made of water? _______________
- From the cart, discover how many ounces you should consume. _________ ounces.
FATS
FATS
- Fat is ______________________ that when consumed, _______________________________________ vitamins including vitamin _____________________________.- Provides _______________.
- Draw two examples of food that include unsaturated fats:
- Draw two examples of food that include saturated fats:
- REACTION TO THE QUOTE:“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest
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form of poison.” - Ann Wigmore
- What is your reaction to the quote and how does it related to the content we are learning about? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
CARBO-HYDRATES
- Carbohydrates are _______________________ for the brain.- Without carbohydrates, _________________________________ properly.- Sources include ________, breads and _________, starchy __________ and _____. Make at least _________________ you consume whole grains.- Whole grains and ________________ of fiber, which reduces the risk of ___________________ and helps _________________ blood glucose levels.
- Draw two examples of food that contain carbohydrates:
PROTEIN
- Protein is the __________ structure component of ________ and is ___________for the __________ and ___________ of body tissues.- Protein is _________ down into __________ acids, which are the _______ blocksof protein.-Protein amounts for ____% of our diet.
- Help __________ and ____________ work together.- Found in __________ leafy ______________ and whole ____________.
- Sodium: Helps to ____________ fluid volume outside the ______ and ________cells to ____________ normally.- Potassium: Maintains _________ volume _______ and ________ of cells and prevents the excess rise of _____________ with increased _________ intake.- Calcium: Helps to ___________ and build ___________ bones and __________.
- FINAL THOUGHTS:Based off of your personal physical demand, what key nutrients do you need to
implement into your daily diet in order for your body to be healthier? Think of the 6 key nutrients from the lecture and try to incorporate them into your answer.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
