Physical Education Lesson Plan: Healthy Choices Unit

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Lesson Plan One - Healthy Choices Unit

Physical Education - 5th Grade

Overarching Essential Question: How do your choices affect your health?

Topical Essential Questions: 1) How do the components of fitness relate to my everyday activities? 2)What kinds of activities will improve my fitness level? 3) What are some skills I need to be physically fit and active?

Five 90 minute lessons

Instructional Sequence: This lesson is the introductory lesson to the unit. It sets out to give the students a base of knowledge that will be built upon in terms of healthy choices and the affects of these choices in later lessons.

Day 1 - Topic: Fitness Components Objective: The students will be able to identify and demonstrate the 5 Fitness Components. The students will be able to create fitness goals.

Standards: 5-2.4, 5-4.2, 5-4.3

Day 2 - Topic: Characteristics and affects of healthy/unhealthy behaviors Objective: The students will be able to recognize characteristics of healthy and unhealthy behaviors. The students will be able to evaluate the affects of unhealthy behaviors.

Standards: 5-4.3

Day 3 - Topic: Affects of food choices on health. Objective: The students will be able to explain how food choices affect their health.

Standards: 5-4.1, 5-4.2

Day 4 - Topic: Evaluation of affects of healthy/unhealthy behaviors. Objective: The students will be able to evaluate the affects of unhealthy and healthy choices.

Standards: 5-4.3, 5-5.1

Day 5 - Topic: Applying fitness components and unit reflection Objective: The students will be able to

Standards: 5-2.5, 5-4.2, 5-4.3

Lesson Plan 1 Standards: 5-2.4 Identify the five components of health-related physical fitness and describe activities that correspond to each component....

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Application of Research by and Educational Theorist:

I model some of Vygotsky's theories in this lesson plan. When practicing skills or playing games, I have my students work together in either pairs or groups. This promotes social interaction and allows for the students to learn from each other in addition to learning from teacher feedback. In this lesson, I allow the students to practice the 5 fitness components in groups. In this lesson I have the students set fitness goals on the first day of the unit. The students are setting goals and participating in activities that extend what they are learning in class outside of the classroom. This is meant to bring meaning to the topic and is meant to give the students a chance to participate in authentic learning which Vygotsky says will enhance learning.

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