First Grade Health Lesson Plan

TEKS: 115.3. Health Education, Grade 1.

(b) Knowledge and skills.
(4) Health information. The student understands the basic structure and
functions of the human body and how they relate to personal health
throughout the life span. The student is expected to:
(B) Identify major body structures and organs and describes their basic
functions
Objectives:

Students will be able to know and understand importance the heart,

where it is, and how to keep it healthy. (Knowledge)

Students will be able to communicate ways to have a healthy heart.

(comprehension)
Students will be able to create a diagram of the heart. (synthesis)

Characteristics:

Has boundless energy.

May be oppositional, silly, brash, and critical.
Cries easily; shows a variety of tension-releasing behavior.
Is attached to the teacher.
Has difficulty being flexible.
Often considers fantasy real.
Gaining control of fine motor activities
Can do activities for at least ten minutes
Like to know how things work
Learn to evaluate what they do

Materials/Supplies:

Heart Power Point (to be shown throughout lesson as a guide to lesson)

Projector and computer

White screen or white wall

Exploring the Heart-the Circulatory System movie or streaming link
Butcher paper or construction paper
Markers/crayons
Samples of heart and diagrams with basic labels
Thump, Thump, Learning About Your Heart book

Focus:

Students will be asked questions about the heart (where it is, what it
does) in order to assess prior knowledge and to spark interest.
Students will then be shown pictures of a heart and asked what things
they think they can do to keep their heart healthy and why it is
important to keep the heart healthy. Start showing power point.
Check for understanding-ask questions regarding discussion just
covered by making it a quick competition between boys and girls (who
gets more answers correctly).

Instructional Delivery:

Read Thump, Thump, Learning About Your Heart book to students to

explain what heart is and what its purpose is. Then, have students
watch Exploring the Heart-the Circulatory System movie. Discuss these
two demonstrations with the students and explain why we must keep
our heart healthy. Also suggest ways to keep the heart healthy.
By reading this book aloud teachers will be reinforcing the positive
measures they have already implemented (Food and fitness: healthy
reading for kids, n.d.).
Check for understanding-ask questions regarding book, movie, and
discussion.

Guided Practice:

Students will work in groups drawing pictures of a heart based on what

was seen in book, movie, and sample heart pictures.
Check for understanding- walk around as students are working, ask

questions and give

feed-back on responses.
Independent Practice:

Have students draw or act out one way we can take care of our hearts.
By doing this the teacher is helping the students accomplish fitness
success by having them be active, purposeful, evaluative, thoughtful,
strategic, persistent, and productive (Opitz, 2011).
Check for understanding-walk around and see if students are actively
participating.

Closure:

Show Heart Power Point again as a review. Discuss ways to keep heart
healthy.
Check for understanding- Exit ticket tell one thing about heart as they
leave the class.

Assessment/Evaluation:

Students will color a heart worksheet and circle correct ways of

keeping our heart healthy.

Modifications:

Possible modifications would be to copy power point slides to give to

student, and various evaluation methods, guided instructions, and
independent work could be used depending on degree of disability. If
children are able to participate at all, that child could be a teacher

helper. If student is deaf, sign language for book and movie could be
available.
Learning Styles:

Visual (sample pictures, power point, movie, book, drawing), auditory

(power point & book, and movie), & kinesthetic (activity to do to keep a
healthy heart).

Resources:

http://tea.texas.gov/index2.aspx?id=6148
http://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/healthy-heart-pre-k-2nd
https://www.teachervision.com/growth-and-development/child-

development/2844.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5iCoCaofc
Food and fitness: healthy reading for kids. (n.d.). Retrieved from PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/parents/food-and-fitness/sport-and-fitness/healthy-

reading-for-kids/
Opitz, M. F. (2011). Transcending the curricular barrier between fitness
and reading

with fitlit. Reading Teacher, 64(7), 535-540.

doi:10.1598/RT.64.7.8