Injury and Health Problem Prevention
Overview
In this lesson, students will learn about concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance their health. They will also incorporate personal responsibility, analyze healthy and unhealthy behaviors, and use decision making skills throughout. At the end of this lesson, students should have learned about different diseases, injuries, and health problems and how to prevent them.
Lesson Overview
Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
12.1.4 Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems.
Learning Objective: I can list the ways to prevent injuries and health problems through healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
Interdisciplinary Standards: Personal responsibility, analyze healthy/unhealthy behaviors, use decision making skills
Essential Questions: What are healthy behaviors? What are unhealthy behaviors? How can we use this knowledge to prevent injuries and health problems?
Formative Assessment: Creating a list of different behaviors as a class, Kahoot! covering healthy and unhealthy habits
Summative Assessment: Quiz on different behaviors
Vocabulary/Phrases: Types of common injuries and health problems, diseases, and behaviors
Materials: Computer/tablet, paper, pencil
Step One
1. Discuss essential questions with the class to establish prior knowledge and what needs to be covered.
- What are healthy behaviors?
- What are unhealthy behaviors?
- How can we use this knowledge to prevent injuries and health problems?
Step Two
1. Students will individually make a list of healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
2. Class will separate into pairs or small groups to discuss their list and any similarities and differences they find.
3. As a class, create a master list of the behaviors each group came up with.
Step Three
1. Teacher will break off into a lecture on diseases and injuries that should be covered through the standard(s).
- Students who need extra help can be paired with another student to help or given a dictionary to incorporate into their learning.
- High ability students can be given diseases or injuries to research independently and present facts to the class.
Step Four
1. Students will participate in a Kahoot! formative assessment on the definitions discussed, healthy and unhealthy behaviors, injuries, and diseases.
- Teachers can use this data to decide what they need to go over again and can move on from.