Creating Health Goals
Overview
Today we are going to focus on creating a health goal. You will be learning how to create and follow a health plan, how to create a journal, update the journal weekly, and why these things are important.
Overview
Indiana Academic Standards for Physical Education and/ or Health
2.6.1
Identify the benefits of planning and setting personal health goals.
2.W.2.1
Write legibly by forming letters correctly and spacing words and sentences properly.
2.W.4
Generate a draft by developing, selecting and organizing ideas relevant to topic, purpose, and genre; revise writing, using appropriate reference materials, by adding details (e.g., organization, sentence structure, word choice); edit writing for format and conventions (e.g., spelling, capitalization, usage, punctuation).
Materials & Resources needed:
Journal notebooks
Pencil
Scrap paper
Essential Vocabulary Words and Phrases of Focus for this Lesson:
Health Goals
Achieving
Assessments:
Formative Assessment: Help students come up with ideas of a health goal and have them write down 3.
Summative Assessment: Students will keep track of their progress on their health goal. They will be filling in a journal and submitting for grading.
This lesson focuses on creating health goals. The students will learn to create a health plan to follow. They will also be learning why it is important.
The lesson has a whole group component and a leveled independent practice component.
Whole Group Lesson
- The teaching strategy will be project-based learning.
- have the class watch YouTube video linked.
- hand out scrap paper for discussion.
- discuss with children’s what goals are.
- provide examples of your own self goals
- have students write 5 goals they would like to meet.
- hand out goal journals.
- have students grab pencils.
- allow students to select the top goal they would like to meet.
- Class discussion
- share each other's goals.
- Why is this goal important to you?
- Do you think there will be any challenges?
- What should we do if we can’t complete the goal for a day?
- Do we quit or try again?
- keep journals in the classroom.
- every other day have students fill in the journal.
- after one week takes the first weeks, log in the journal for a grade
- continue weekly grading for 3 weeks.
- share as a class on what happened, how they felt, and the struggles they may have faced during the 3 weeks of maintaining the goals.
SPED:
One-on-one help and reading it out loud with them. Will allow text-to-speech for individuals on Chromebook.
ELL:
Provide pictures and have dictionaries needed to accommodate ELL students.
High Ability:
Will be doing a power-point or slides on their presentations and submitting them.
Objective:
Today we are going to focus on creating a health goal. You will be learning how to create and follow a health plan, how to create a journal, update the journal weekly, and why these things are important.
Watch the link provided to review health goals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAii6YG-nps
Let's Get Ready:
Pose the questions: What is a health goal? Allow students to discuss what they believe a health goal is.
How can we achieve this goal? Come up with ideas as a class and create a draft on the board.
When should I start? Allow the students a few minutes to discuss together their answers.
Do you think there will be many challenges for this assignment?
Discussion:
This will be a project-based assignment. Everyone will be filling out a health journal over the next 3 weeks providing if you met the goals, why you weren't able to meet the goals, and an overall check-in.
At the end of the 3 weeks, you will be sharing with the class how your weeks went, how you felt afterward if you faced any struggles, and what struggles.