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There is one complete set of lesson materials for this lesson. These resources include lesson plans, worksheets, Note-Taking Guides, PowerPoint presentations, and lesson quizzes.

Videos

The lesson includes a three- to four-minute video showing excerpts from teen interviews related to the lesson topic. These videos are meant to promote class discussion or to serve as self-reflection prompts. Students can view the videos and then take a few minutes to write their own answers to the questions posed. In class, the videos can be used either as a jumping-off point at the start of the lesson, or they can be shown at the end of the lesson to facilitate group discussion and reinforce the skills and concepts being taught.

Students have access to the videos from the interactive web text (IWT). Teachers can access the videos from links in the lesson planners.

What's in a Lesson Plan

The lesson plans are all organized and presented in a consistent way. The lesson plan includes the following elements and uses the supporting materials identified in the section that follows.

  1. Overview: This is a short statement that anchors the lesson content and can be used to remind students of the focus of the day.
  2. Learning targets: These are learning outcomes that are specific to the lesson plan. Learning targets include both cognitive and behavioral (skill) targets.
  3. Preparation: This includes a complete description of all materials and preparations needed to successfully implement the lesson.
  4. Warm-up activity: This includes activities that can be used to get students focused and ready to learn. There are multiple options to choose from:
    1. Journal Question: Students can write or discuss questions that solicit perspectives, understandings, and applications of lesson content. This is a great choice for reinforcing writing and reflection skills.
    2. Vocabulary review: This is a simple tool to identify and consider key terms found in the lesson. The vocabulary review builds student vocabulary and can be especially helpful for students with learning challenges or for whom English is a second language.
    3. Quiz: This is a pretest for students and teachers to use to quickly assess prior learning to help focus the lesson.
  5. Lesson content: The content highlights the functional health knowledge needed to successfully complete the lesson focus. There are options for working with the lesson content:
    1. PowerPoint slides can be used as an outline for lecture or discussion.
    2. A Note-Taking guide provides a graphic organizer that can help students identify and consider critical concepts in the lesson.
  6. Lesson focus: At the heart of the lesson is an activity that focuses on skill development using the lesson content.
  7. Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet: This includes step-by-step instructions, using a variety of instructional strategies to help students build essential health skills.
  8. Challenge activity: An optional challenge activity is presented to allow for more proficient students to experience a more advanced level of engagement with the lesson. These may also be used or adapted as a homework task.
  9. Reflection and summary: These provide an easy way to reinforce learning and check for understanding using the lesson’s learning targets.
  10. Assessment: There are options that allow for summative assessment of the lesson:
    1. Lesson quiz
    2. Worksheet answer keys (for assessing performance on any of the worksheets from the lesson)

Lesson Plan Supporting Material Details

Vocabulary Review Worksheet

The Vocabulary Review Worksheet is best used as a warm-up activity or as a task for less proficient or English language learner students. This worksheet provides a way for students to grasp and practice key vocabulary terms from the lesson. There is a separate English language learner version if you choose to use it.

Note-Taking Guide

The Note-Taking Guide provides a graphic organizer that all students can used to engage with lesson content. This guide can also help students organize their understanding of key concepts as they read or to assess content knowledge, particularly among students who are less proficient. Answers to the Note-Taking Guides are included in the answer key.

Lesson Quizzes

There is a premade quiz for the lesson.

Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet

This worksheet corresponds with the Skill-Building Challenge found in the student lesson and aligns with step-by-step instructions for the skill-development activity provided in the lesson. Skill-Building Challenge Worksheets can be used to develop health skills and can also be used as formal graded assessments.

PowerPoint Slides

Modifiable PowerPoint slides highlight the most critical content from the lesson and are presented in a simple outline form that makes them easy to move through during the lesson.

Answer Key

The lesson includes an answer key for the Vocabulary Review Worksheets, the Note-Taking Guides, and the Lesson Quizzes.

Analytic and Holistic Rubrics for Skill Assessment

In addition to lesson resources, the Live Well program includes two full sets of analytic and holistic rubrics that can be used with almost all skill development activities in the lessons or in the lesson plans. These rubrics focus on the development and execution of health skills and are not specific to content. This allows them to be used across units and over time, thus helping teachers evaluate how well students are developing their health skills.