My lesson plan
is designed for 6th grade middle school students. It is an in-class
assignment and activity that consists of students learning how to read and understand
the Nutritional Value Label on breakfast cereals and apply that understanding for
future references. I plan on adding more objectives to create a more
challenging lesson plan. A change in difficulty will mean a change in the
length of the lesson. Initially this lesson was intended to be completed within
one 80-minute class period, but due to the addition of objectives and harder difficulty,
this lesson will now be aimed to be completed in two 80-minute class periods.
The additional objectives I will include in my lesson plan are a short verbal quiz,
an essay of what students have learned, and a presentation of that essay by the
student in front of the class.
In the beginning of this lesson,
students will be taught how to identify the fat, sugar, and sodium on a
Nutritional Value Label by watching a short video on YouTube. Students will
learn and understand the components of a Nutritional Value Label and how to
properly read it. After watching the video, I, as the teacher, will test my
students’ understanding of the video and present them a short verbal quiz. Each
student will be called upon and be given a random question to answer that
pertained to the video. As a teacher, I feel that this method of quizzing
students verbally will enable students to answer the question given to them
with the utmost competence, having to relate back to what they have watched in
the video about the Nutritional Value Label.
After learning and understanding the
parts of a Nutritional Value Label and applying that understanding to the breakfast
cereal activity, students will be asked to write an essay about what they have
learned from this lesson. Students already have the knowledge to differentiate what
kinds of breakfast cereals are considered healthy and unhealthy by analyzing
the amount of fat, sugar, and sodium each cereal contains. A significant aspect
I expect my students to write about in this essay is the importance/meaning of
this lesson to them. I feel that by having my students express their views,
feelings, and concerns about a certain topic is indeed challenging, but stimulating
at the same time. I do not expect my students to write an academic essay, but
more so, a reflective essay. According to Watton, Collings, and Moon (2001),
reflective writing allows individual to “deepen the learning from work” (p. 4).
At the end of this lesson and
activity, students will read what they had written in their reflective essay in
front of the class. This part of the lesson will demonstrate each students’
ability to present in front of an audience. Although presenting in front of an
audience is difficult for many students, I feel that it is best to develop and
practice presentation skills at an early age. It will allow students to grow
into more comfortable and competent presenters in the future. Also, this
activity will give other students a chance to attentively listen and observe their
fellow classmates present, creating a profound understanding of the subject at
hand in different points of views.
The additions to my lesson plan are not
made to discourage my students, but to stretch and challenge them in positive
ways. A lesson plan does not need to be difficult, but instead a doable demand
in which students are capable of moving forward (Scrivener & Adrian
Underhill, 2012). In my new lesson plan, I incorporated three new objectives. I
included a short verbal quiz, an essay, and a presentation. These new
components of my lesson plan will teach students how to recall, reflect, and
reveal their understanding of what is being taught. Challenging students means
deeper thinking.
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