Here is a great website that deals with teaching young children about leading a healthy and active lifestyle. It is based at a grade three level in the subject area of health and deals with controlling deals as well. The site mainly focusses on the fact that if you eat right and stay active you can prevent many diseases and keep your heart healthy! There are links in the right hand corner that you as a teacher or your students can access such as the healthy fridge, good nutrition, heart of the matter and then there is a link just for kids. I also enjoy the main page of this website, it draws you in because it has the cartoon heart pumping and colorful images that engage your attention. I could definately see myself using this website in my future classroom!
To incorporate this website into my lesson plans at school I would first give an introductory lesson to my class about controlling diseases and leading a healthy and active lifestyle and what it can do for your body. I would use areas such as the food guide on display, a list of physical activities that are simple and fun, etc. After this, I would allow for my students to access this website and click on the link "just for kids!" They could read about fun recipes, facts about heart disease, take a healthy fridge quiz from what they learned and seek a word game. I would allow for my students to go on the computers in partners when accessing this website because they then can collaborate information and ideas to complete the word game and quiz. After the students are done on the site, we would meet back at our desks and brainstorm healthy foods and learn more about the food guide. As a teacher, I would then send a note home with the parents/guardians to ask them to send their child with one healthy snack. Our class would have a potluck lunch including foods from the four main food groups. Some could bring veggies and dip, another a fruit platter, others could bring cheese crackers and meat, etc. During our lunch we would then further examine and learn about the heart and how healthy eating can benefit our health and body so greatly. We would also talk about some favorite areas of the website, how did everyone do on the quiz, what recipes sounded good, etc.
I feel that this website would benefit the learning of my students because it is kid friendly and engages the students attention through the images and interesting information. Instead of it being a site where it just lists information and facts, it includes recipes, quizes and word games which students really seem to enjoy. By providing this variety the students find it enjoyable and the content more easy to follow. Child obesity is such as growing issue within today's society, so as a future teacher I plan to help decrease this problem by beginning in my classroom with my students. This site is a great way to educate your students about a healthy heart, type 2 diabetes and how they can lead a healthy and active lifestyle. I would also send home this website in the parents/guardian newsletter so that the students can also access it at home to learn even further about this subject area!
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Secrets at the Sea!
Here is a great site based on the grade two science curriculum level on the topic of oceans. On this website they display something similar to a television news program where you follow along on information and news about oceans. The news broadcaster has a mini speech bubble, and once you are finished reading it, you simply click on the bubble to hear the next set of news being said about the ocean. After the news reporter is done talking, you have the ability to click on the "field notes" at the bottom of the page where it explains several topics in relation to the ocean such as food webs, killer whales, tides, salmon, plankton and many more. Once you click on that topic it reveals a page of information that you can further read about and learn! It also displays a picture with the information, so not only are you reading about it but you are seeing it as well and getting a visual perspective!
To incorporate this website into my class I would have the students pair up with a partner to search through and complete this site. After they have gone through, read and listened about all the various news broadcasts and information, I would then have them read through the field guide and choose a topic that they want to do their own news broadcast on. They could choose anything from killer whales to salmon and plankton. After they chose a topic, they would return to their desks and with the teachers help I would help them write up a short news script about the topic they chose where each of them gets a turn to talk. Once all of the students have completed this step, I would then have them create a podcast news broadcast, where we would add in fun music as well and they could broadcast their information to the rest of the students. If my class had our own classroom web page, I would post these podcasts up on the web for the parents/guardians to listen to, so they can see what their child is working on and learning about in class!
After completing this task, I would then have my students revisit the site and just play around. If you click on the on/off button the television it takes you to another world on the site where you can click to various areas and learn more about the ocean! It makes you almost feel like you are a character of the site which engages the students more into its content. I feel that this site would benefit my students learning because not only are they learning about oceans and the animals that live in it and some issues such as pollution, but they actually get to make their own news broadcast about it using podcasts which reveals them to even more use of technology. By using the podcasts to wrap up this lesson plan, they are having the ability to collaborate information that they learned from the site and create it into a final presentation. Also, the site makes the student feel like a character as they have to proceed through all of the news broadcasts and can click on links to other areas about oceans, it even takes you to a small town and you can ride an airplane too!
To incorporate this website into my class I would have the students pair up with a partner to search through and complete this site. After they have gone through, read and listened about all the various news broadcasts and information, I would then have them read through the field guide and choose a topic that they want to do their own news broadcast on. They could choose anything from killer whales to salmon and plankton. After they chose a topic, they would return to their desks and with the teachers help I would help them write up a short news script about the topic they chose where each of them gets a turn to talk. Once all of the students have completed this step, I would then have them create a podcast news broadcast, where we would add in fun music as well and they could broadcast their information to the rest of the students. If my class had our own classroom web page, I would post these podcasts up on the web for the parents/guardians to listen to, so they can see what their child is working on and learning about in class!
After completing this task, I would then have my students revisit the site and just play around. If you click on the on/off button the television it takes you to another world on the site where you can click to various areas and learn more about the ocean! It makes you almost feel like you are a character of the site which engages the students more into its content. I feel that this site would benefit my students learning because not only are they learning about oceans and the animals that live in it and some issues such as pollution, but they actually get to make their own news broadcast about it using podcasts which reveals them to even more use of technology. By using the podcasts to wrap up this lesson plan, they are having the ability to collaborate information that they learned from the site and create it into a final presentation. Also, the site makes the student feel like a character as they have to proceed through all of the news broadcasts and can click on links to other areas about oceans, it even takes you to a small town and you can ride an airplane too!
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