Health Education Lesson Plan Safety and Injury Prevention Mysty Deckard and Kiley Pardieck
Jan 18, 2016
Health Education Lesson Plan
Safety and Injury
Prevention
Mysty Deckard and Kiley Pardieck
INTASC Standard and Rationale Standard #7 Planning for Instruction: The teacher plans instruction
that supports every student in meeting rigorous learning goals by drawing upon knowledge of content areas, curriculum, cross-disciplinary skills, and pedagogy, as well as knowledge of learners and the community content.
Name of Artifact: Health Lesson Plan Date: 4/23/14 Course: EDUC 240 Brief Description: For this assignment, I developed a lesson plan that
documents the steps that I will use while teaching my students about water safety. In this lesson plan, I have utilized state standards and have included the different materials that will be needed to complete the lesson plan.
Rationale: To document my understanding of Standard 7, Planning for Instruction, I have selected to include my Health Education Lesson Plan. This assignment demonstrates my ability to create a lesson plan for my students. It shows that I was able to use my knowledge of content areas and the curriculum to create a lesson plan that would engage my students in purposeful learning.
Water Safety
Grade Level 2
20-25 Minutes
Health Education Standards and Objectives
National Health Education Standard 7: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
Indiana Health Education Academic Standard 2.7.2: Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks
Objectives: The students objective will be to collaborate with students in their group to figure out what safety practices are best to take around different forms of water; i.e pool, beach, or lake. The students will use poster board to write their list of rules necessary for each form of water.
Equipment Needed
Poster Boards Markers White Board Assessment Rubrics
Preparation Gather all materials for
students to begin lesson. Set up PowerPoint Blow beach ball up for
assessment
Introductory Activity:Watch Water Safety Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AoOXxVOPUw
Lesson Activity After watching the introductory video, split
the students into three groups. (Pool, Beach, Lake)
Give each group a poster board and a set of markers.
Have students write down a list of rules that would apply to their designated swimming area
Allow for time to collaborate with students After 15 minutes, Have students read their
rules aloud and then show students a list of possible rules that they could have.
Water Safety• Do not swim out too far• Do not go into water alone• Do not swim near rocks or
pier• Always have an adult
around• Look for depth of water next
to ledge before entering• Do not run around pool• No rough play• Never swim alone• Do not eat anything while
swimming (gum)• Obey all Water Rules
Closing Activity Think/Pair/Share Allow time for discussion
of the importance of Water Safety.
Have the student discuss why the believe Water Safety is important
Allow for follow up questions
Assessment Activity Toss Beach Ball between students. Each
student can have the ball one time. The students must say one (1) water safety rule and cannot repeat one that has been previously stated.
Accommodations Select groups so that everyone has an
equal opportunity to participate Allow for there to be students from
different cultures so that they can have different ideas during the lesson activity
Safety Concerns Inform the students that they are not to
throw the beach ball at each other, they are to gently toss the ball.
There should not be any other safety concerns
Rubric
References http://www.swimkids.com.au/water-
safety/