Healthy Body, Better You

WELCOME TO HEALTHY BODY, BETTER YOU

Lesson By: Ms. Ward

LETTER TO PARENTS

GREETINGS PARENTS!                                        

Welcome to Ms. Ward’s fifth grade science class!

I am so very pleased to have each and every one of your children in my class they are all so bright!

This year I plan to really bring our focus on science to life! I have planned a number of scheduled events that I hope all of the class will participate in. Our focus area is the importance of having a healthy body. I have made this subject very hands on and engaging for the students. Throughout the year I have scheduled two field trips. The first field trip will be to a nearby gym so that the students will be given the opportunity to see what all is offered in terms of being involved in daily exercise. Our second field trip will be to our local university where the children will talk to college students and hear how they can better prepare things in relation to school. I also have a number of fun and engaging activities and experiments planned for the kids related to a healthier body. So, with a few heads up now you know what your children will be doing at school and what to expect in the near future. Once again I am very pleased to have all of your children in my class and cannot wait to kick off the year!

Thank you!

Ms. Ward

Contact Info:

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 775-455-7044

         EXERCISE

Exercise Boosts Your Brain Power

• Our brains were built for walking 12 miles a day!

• To improve your thinking skills, move. 

• Exercise gets blood to your brain, bringing glucose for energy and oxygen to soak up the toxic electrons that are left over. It also stimulates the protein that keeps neurons connecting.

• Aerobic exercise just twice a week halves your risk of general dementia. It cuts your risk of Alzheimers's by 60 percent.

            STRESS

      Stressed Brains Don't Learn The Same Way 

• Your body's defense system- The release of adrenaline and cortisole.

  •   -  It is built for an immediate response to a serious but passing      danger, such as saber-toothed tiger. 

• Chronic stress, such as hostility at home, dangerously deregulates a system built only to deal with short-term responses. 

• Individually, the worst kind of stress is the feeling that you have no control over the problem or are helpless. 

• Emotional stress had huge impacts across society, on children's ability to learn in school and on employee's productivity at work. 

                                                                                                                 SLEEP 

Sleep Well, Think Well

• The brain is in constant state of tension between cells and chemicals that try to put you to sleep and cells and chemicals that try to keep you awake.

• People vary in how much sleep they need and when they prefer to get it, but the biological drice for an afternoon nap is universal. 

• Loss of sleep hurts attetion, executive function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity. 

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      STEPS TO A HEALTHIER BODY

Simple ways to exercise and keep your body healthy         Simple ways to be stree free                 Better sleeping habits

The Learning Cycle

Title: Healthy Body, Better You

Grade: Fifth Grade

Standards:

Next Generation Science Standards

Disciplinary Core Ideas

1.      MS-LS2-3: MS Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems.

Students will develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem. Students do an experiment that involves their use of energy in both exercise and sleep.

2.      MS-LS1-5: MS. Growth, development, and reproduction of organisms. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. Students focus on their bodies and physical health.

Objectives:

Students will learn about three different ways that they can help keep a healthy body. They will know that exercise is a great way to boost brain power, stressed brains do not learn the same way as non-stressed brains, and how sleeping well helps you think well. The students will participate in two to three different activities to experience certain steps to a healthier body at a young age. They will also fill out a healthy body worksheet with directions for a self-experiment for one week and then again for another week to compare any differences developed over time. Between the times these two experiments are administered with the healthy body worksheets students will also turn in a one page paper explaining in detail how the healthy body experiment turned out and affected them both positively and negatively before, during, and after the experiment.

Background Knowledge Required for Teacher:

Teacher must know the basic functions and how the body is built. Knowing the definition of terms being used in a lesson and they will also need to know most knowledge there is to know about healthy and non-healthy body choices. Teacher should know alternative and diverse ways for a child to be active, stress free, and sleep well. Not all children operate or learn the same so diversity and open mindedness must be present during this lesson. Teacher needs to be cautious of word choice during this lesson and the topic of exercise for the body. Being very careful not to offend any children and also staying away from saying a certain body type is good or bad but sticking to the terms healthy and unhealthy. Last, teacher needs to know all background knowledge there is to know about healthy bodies in regards to fifth grade science. She/he should have read up on a good amount of content before administering lesson.

Student Background Knowledge:

Students need to be familiar with the terms that will be introduced in the lesson; exercise, stress, and sleep. They also need to have already been introduced to other activities defined by the standard MS-LS2-3 so they can really get the gist of the content they are learning. Student should be old enough to make self-choices in hopes to have a healthier body or just stay the way they are and young enough to receive help from parents at home.

Material List:

·         Lesson Plan that introduces students to content

·         Introduction Questions

·         Healthy Body Worksheet

·         Work out supplies and gear

·         Parental Supervision and consent

Safety Procedures:

Make sure that experiments are done with parental supervision. Children must stretch before any physical activity takes place. Students must be sure they give themselves enough sleep during nights that they are to give themselves their own bed time.

Lesson Body:

·         Engagement:

1.      Hand out the introduction worksheet exercise about lesson to the students.

2.      Explain to students what the worksheet will be about and what is asked of them.

3.      Give the students about 10 minutes max to finish the worksheet and then collect

4.      Once all worksheets have been collected look over to view the student’s prior knowledge and answers given.

·         Exploration:

1.      Students will be given a healthy body worksheet.

2.      The healthy body worksheet contains all seven days of the week, as well as, columns with spaces for the students to write down the type of exercise, stress free motive, and good or bad sleep schedule they participated in for each day.

3.      The students will fill this worksheet out for an entire week and after each item is written a parent will need to sign off each day to be sure the activity was done.

4.      After the week has passed the children will turn their experiment into me.

5.      Worksheets will not be graded but will be looked over to see if completed and the diverse combinations each student chose for the week.

·         Explanation:

After students complete the healthy body worksheet the teacher will have them type a one page paper explaining how their individual experiment played out.

This paper should include content such as, what they chose to do each day for each category, whether they enjoyed their choice for that day or not, what they liked and what they did not, what they would have done differently, and what they learned through the process.

This assignment will be due a week after the experiment.

·         Electronic Resources:

Computer and overhead was used when presenting lesson to class. Computer and printer used when students typed up assignments.

·         Elaboration:

1.      Students will be taught a little more information that relates to lesson.

2.      The teacher will ask students about ways that will allow them to be more successful with their experiment and body health.

3.      The students will then apply everything that they have learned at this point and participate in the healthy body experiment for a second time.

4.      They will do the experiment for a week as before and turn when it has been completed.

·         Evaluation:

After students have completed the second healthy body experiment work sheet they will turn it into the teacher. They will then write up a second one page paper compare the first and second weekly experiments. In this paper the teacher must see knowledge, skills, and ability learned throughout lesson. This will be graded based on knowledge learned and if they were really invested in the experiment or not. Ask students what they liked about it and what they didn’t. Also, ask students what they learned through it all. Here the students should have noticed a change in their bodies and also how they feel. Hopefully they like the way a healthy body feels and continue to live this way.

Clean Up:

Not much cleanup is required while or after doing the given experiments. Be sure that if exercises are done inside not to make a mess in the house or yard. If messes do take place be sure to clean up after yourselves with parental guidance or help.

Closure:

Recap the three ways that you can keep your body healthy. Ask the students to give examples of an exercise, ways to stay stress free, and last a way to keep a good sleep schedule. Ask students to think back to assignments and talk about whether they liked it or not and if they would choose to live a healthier life from here on out. 

INTRODUCTION WORKSHEET EXERCISE 

DIRECTIONS: Match the terms in the word bank to one of the example sentences below that expresses ways others keep a healthy body. Terms may be used more than once.

      WORD BANK

• Exercise
• Stress
• Sleep

1. Jenny went to sleep at 8 oclock at night so that she could be up on time for work in the morning. ________

2. Brian and Michaela went on a run around their school which totalled to be a whole four miles. ________

3. Taylor always takes care of her priorities before she has fun that way all the important stuff is out the way and she can enjoy herself ________

4. In the morning Diana does jumping jacks to get her body going for the day.________

5. Sitting in the sauna after an eventful day is a great way to relieve any built up tension throughout the day.________

HEALTH BODY EXPERIMENT WORKSHEET

Name______________                                                                                   Date______________

          Healthy Body Experiment

CLASS CALENDAR

APRIL: Exercise

MAY: Stress

JUNE: Sleep

THANK YOU!

ALWAYS REMEMBER: A HEALTHY BODY= A BETTER YOU  

Website By: Jazmyn Ward

April 7, 2014