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/