High School – Accessing Information for Healthy Weight Management

Grade – 11Time allotted – 45 minutes

Lesson 5-6

Essential Question: What should I include on my teen nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight management web site?

1. What do I want the students to know and be able to do?

  • State Standard(s)
  • National Standards
  • Standard 1 – Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
  • Performance indicator 1.12.1 - Predict how healthy behaviors can affect health status.
  • Performance indicator 1.12.1 - with infused content - Predict how healthy behaviors, such as nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight management, can affect health status.
  • Standard 3 - Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.
  • Performance indicator 3.12.1 - Evaluate the validity of health information, products, and services.
  • Performance indicator 3.12.1 with infused content - Evaluate the validity of health information, products, and services found on the Internet.
  1. How will I know when the students have achieved the goal?
  • Students present a web site that contains valid information about the affects of nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight management on teen health status.
  1. What procedures will I use to reach the goal?
  • Explain the agenda of the class
  • Use formative assessment tools to review lessons 1-4
  • Accessing Information
  • Web Site Evaluation Tool form
  • Dietary Guidelines
  • My Pyramid Transparency
  • Guidelines for Healthy Weight Management
  • Divide the class into small groups and distribute the blank newsprint to each student. Students complete the web page indicating
  • Three valid web sources for nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight management.
  • Include a Web Site Evaluation Tool for each website (3)
  • Predict three ways nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight management affects a teen’s health status.
  • Five Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and answers about teen nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight management.
  • Three pictures promoting good nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight loss.
  • Cited sources
  • Meet with each group and assess progress using formative assessments.
  • Students present their web pages during the next class.
  • Reflect and summarize
  • State one valid statement about nutrition
  • State one valid statement about physical activity
  • State one valid statement about healthy weight management
  • State one valid source of information about nutrition
  • State one valid source of information about physical activity
  • State one valid source of information about healthy weight management
  1. How can I improve this lesson?

Lesson Connections

  • Homework: N/A
  • Interdisciplinary Connections: ELA, Science (anatomy)
  • Opportunities for Technology use: Use computers to review and identify valid healthy weight management resources.
  • Opportunities for Parent Participation: N/A

Teacher Resources Needed:

  • Newsprint
  • Markers
  • Web Site Content Handout
  • Accessing Information newsprints
  • Web Site Evaluation Tool
  • Dietary Guidelines
  • My Pyramid Transparency
  • Accessing information performance task
  • Analytical rubric to assess the Accessing Information web site
  • Blank web page
  • Bull’s Eye

Student Resources Needed:

  • N/A

High School – Accessing Information – Lessons 5-6

Original lesson courtesy of Amy O’NeilPage 1