L1+Darnell,+Kasey+Jane

    Students will understand that nutritional needs differ for each individual.  Students will know how nutrition affects the body over time, what their bodies need, and how to read food labels and pyramid.  Students will be able to reflect on changes they have made in their nutritional habits.    Maine Learning Results: Health Education and Physical Education. A. Health Concepts A.6 Basic Health Concepts Grades 6-8 Nutrition Students explain essential health concepts related to nutrition .   <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will utilize a blog to keep an ongoing journal about their personal health and nutrition choices. The students will also comment on classmate’s blogs to make each other think and expand their entries. The teacher will also comment on blogs and ask appropriate questions to guide student responses. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Art- Students will have the opportunity to do a blog entry using comic life or other graphics instead of text. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">English- Students will be continuously writing in their blogs, using elements of narrative writing, descriptive writing, and voice. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Students will have one partner and will be responsible for making constructive comments on each other’s blogs. At the beginning of class, the partners will meet briefly, then share out about what their partner wrote. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Strategies: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This lesson covers 6 of the 8 multiple intelligences. **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Logical: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Verbal: ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will be writing a blog diary documenting their eating habits and what they are learning in class and also reading their classmate's blogs. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visual: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will add pictures or graphics to their blog that relate to nutrition <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Musical: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Intrapersonal: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Over time, the journal blog will become a reflection/self assessment of personal habits, goals, and progress. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Interpersonal: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will comment on each other’s blogs and interact with each other. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kinesthetic: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will be required one blog entry to be about physical activity the student has done recently and how it relates to nutrition. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Naturalist: ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will be required to write one entry about food sources, where it comes from, how its produced, and the difference between organic and non-organic. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Modifications/Accommodations ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> ** I will review student’s IEP, 504 or ELLIDEP and make appropriate modifications and accommodations. **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Absent: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> If a student is absent, they will first check the class wiki to see which blog entries they should have completed. If they have any further questions, they can email the teacher. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Extensions ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will utilize a blog to keep an ongoing journal about their personal health and nutrition choices. The students will also comment on classmate’s blogs to make each other think and expand their entries. The teacher will also comment on blogs and ask appropriate questions to guide student responses <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1.Creating a blog [] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2. Video tutorial about using Blogger.com to create a blog [] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3. KWL chart [] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> This lesson will introduce students to the basic concepts related to nutrition, and this journal blog will be integrated in future lessons throughout the semester. It serves as a baseline for their knowledge, and as a place to explore and improve their habits and reflect on what they are learning. Self knowledge is the main facet of understanding that will be addressed with this lesson and the subsequent assignments. The MLR covered in this lesson is <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A.6 -Basic Health Concepts, focused on nutrition. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Verbal: ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will be writing a blog diary documenting their eating habits and what they are learning in class and also reading their classmate's blogs. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visual: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will add pictures or graphics to their blog that relate to nutrition <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Intrapersonal: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Over time, the journal blog will become a reflection/self assessment of personal habits, goals, and progress. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Interpersonal: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will comment on each other’s blogs and interact with each other. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kinesthetic: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will be required one blog entry to be about physical activity the student has done recently and how it relates to nutrition. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Naturalist: ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will be required to write one entry about food sources, where it comes from, how its produced, and the difference between organic and non-organic <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For formative assessment, students will share out one thing about their blog entry at the beginning of the week. In the following class, the blog partner will be responsible for commenting on their classmate’s blog, and sharing out one thing about it in class. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The summative assessment will be done at the end of the semester, when all of the blog entries have been completed. Students will write a reflection/anaylsis that discusses what they have learned, and how this has changed their nutritional habits. Students will revisit the KWL chart to see what has changed in terms of knowledge. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The class will be arranged in table groups of two. Students will be assigned blog partners by the teacher, this will be consistent throughout the semester. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will understand that nutritional needs differ for each individual. This lesson will enable students to know how to properly fuel their bodies and realized that everyone has different needs. **Students will explain essential health concepts related to nutrition.** ** The lesson will ** begin by telling students that their blog journals will be put into a time capsule, and uncovered 50 years from now. They will discuss what the future will be like in terms of food. **Where, Why, What, Hook, Tailor: Linguistic, Visual, Interpersonal** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Throughout this process, students will know how nutrition affects the body over time, what their bodies need, and how to read food labels and pyramid. Students will edit their blogs based on comments from their partners, and add/change information as necessary. The partner will make sure their classmate answered the prompt for the blog entry and met the length requirement. Teacher will also comment and give students feedback to improve future blog entries. Some topics will include, “Macronutrients”, “What is your BMR?”, “How to make sense of the food pyramid”, and other areas of interest that came up in the KWL chart. I will align future blog prompts with subsequent lesson topics.(food labels,BMR, USDA guidelines etc) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At the beginning of each week, students will briefly share out one thing they wrote about in their blog as a means of formative assessment. Their blog will be shown on the projector for the class and they will give a mini presentation on one of their blog assignments. This will help me assess what the students are blogging about and what they are learning. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will know how nutrition affects the body over time, what their bodies need, and how to read food labels and pyramid. (intro big pictures) [] (explore this site) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The content will be based on what the students brainstorm for blog topics (based on KWL chart). The topic is nutrition and healthy eating and teacher will align blog prompts with other lessons throughout the semester. (more content notes will be added after the student brainstorm) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">LESSON PLAN #1 **
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Teacher’s Name __****<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: Ms.Darnell **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **__Date of Lesson__:1-Self Knowledge**
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level __****<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: 9 **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **__Topic__: Nutrition**
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Objectives __**<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maine Learning Results Alignment __**
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rationale: **<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This lesson will enable students to know how to properly fuel their bodies and realize that everyone has different nutritional needs. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Assessment __**
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Formative (Assessment for Learning) ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The first blog entry(done in class) will require the students to complete a KWL chart to pre-assess their knowledge about nutrition. In future classes, students will briefly share out about one thing they wrote about in their blog and elaborate on it in the beginning of class. Students will edit their blogs based on comments from their partners, and add/change information as necessary. Teacher will also comment and give students feedback to improve future blog entries. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summative (Assessment of Learning) ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Students will journal on a blog throughout the semester about their food choices and reflect upon changes. At the end of the semester, they will compile their blog entries into a final reflection/synthesis. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Integration __**<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Technology: **
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Groupings __**
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Differentiated Instruction __**
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Materials, Resources and Technology __**
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Laptops
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Internet access
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts(blog template)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rubrics/checklist
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">LCD projector
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Example of blog entry/tutorial
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Source for Lesson Plan and Research __**
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maine Standards for Initial Teacher Certification and Rationale __**
 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 3 - Demonstrates a knowledge of the diverse ways in which students learn and develop by providing learning opportunities that support their intellectual, physical, emotional, social, and cultural development. //**
 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rationale: //**<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> This lesson will appeal to beach ball learners because there is a lot of personal freedom in what the students can write about in their blogs. Clipboard learners will appreciate the structure of this lesson, and the step by step sequence of creating a blog. Microscope learners will be able to analyze concepts in their blog entry, and will enjoy the class discussion. Students with the puppy learning style will be in a comfortable group setting, which will meet their needs as well.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 4 - Plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, curriculum goals, and learning and development theory. //**
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 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 5 - Understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies and appropriate technology to meet students’ needs. //**
 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rationale: //**<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This lesson will appeal to six different areas of intelligence.
 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 8 - Understands and uses a variety of formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and support the development of the learner. //**
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 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Teaching and Learning Sequence __****<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be assigned blog partners, teacher will introduce hook. Students will discuss what the future will look like in terms of food. (10 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Students will fill out KWL chart about nutrition (5 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Students will share KWL chart with their partner (5 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Partner group will share KWL chart with another group, add info to their charts if necessary ( 5 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The whole class will brainstorm topics for blog entries based on KWL charts, and write them on the board. The list will be narrowed down to 8, so there is one topic per week. (10mins)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The teacher will introduce blogger.com, and students will set up their blog account and choose a name for the blog. Teacher will go over the checklist for blog entries. (2 paragraphs, 4-5 lines each, addresses prompt) (20 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Students will post their first blog entry using the prompt “ What does a healthy diet look like? How does my diet compare?” They can use about what they wrote in the KWL chart to write this entry. (20 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Teacher will show students how to comment on blogs,and have a brief discussion on what a constructive comment looks like. (5 mins)
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Explore, Experience, Rethink, Revise, Refine, Tailors: Linguistic, Interpersonal **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Evaluate, Tailors: Linguistic, Intrapersonal. **
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Content Notes __**
 * __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts __**
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Blog template **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">KWL chart **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rubric/checklist **