Emily Smith

EDSS 450D
Topic: Personal Health Management

Unit: Personal and Community Health

Grades: Seven and Eight

Standards
1.1.P Describe the importance of health-management strategies (e.g., those involving adequate
sleep, ergonomics, sun safety, hearing protection, and self-examination).
2.1.P Analyze a variety of influences that affect personal health practices.

Objectives
Upon completion of the lesson, students will be able to
describe the importance of health-management strategies by completing a worksheet. (Level
of cognition: Comprehension.)
analyze a variety of influences that affect personal health practices by participating in a class
discussion. (Level of cognition: Analysis.)

Lesson Outline (55 minutes)

Instructional Student Activities Time Resources
Strategies

Anticipatory Set Participate in 5 minutes Image to project

discucssion Discussion questions

Lecture with discussion Take notes 20 minutes Lecture guide (teacher)

stops Participate in discussion Notebook/ Note guide
(students)

Activity: Contrast Follow activity 20 minutes Instructions

Drawing instructions Template Paper
Colored pencils

Discussion on Participate in 10 minutes Discussion questions

influences discucssion

Anticipatory Set
The teacher will show the comic by C. Cassandra to the class as an introduction and will use the
following questions to prompt a discussion the the students.
Discussion Questions:
Why does the girl take a nap when she knows that she has a lot of stuff to do?
Is this going to help her?
How is she going to feel when she wakes up later and still has all that stuff to do?
Is it okay that she takes a nap?
What else can she do that might be more helpful?
Lecture: Health Management Strategies
This lecture will cover basic health management strategies and why the health management
strategies are important. The teacher will write notes on the board in with the format below for
students to transfer into their health class notebooks. English language learners and students
with special needs may use note guides to help them follow along with the lesson.
What health habits do we have?
Eating
Exercising
Sleeping
Hygiene
Check-ups
Managing stress
Other habits? (ask students)
What is health management?
Health management is a routine of positive health decisions and practices used to
keep us healthy.
Discussion Stop
Does anyone have a routine with some positive health habits? (ask students)
What do you do already? (ask students)
What are some strategies we can use to make positive health choices?
Learning what decisions are healthy
Limiting unhealthy decisions
Making a routine with positive health habits
Finding ways to remind ourselves and each other to stay healthy
Other ideas? (ask students)

Activity: The Importance of Health Management Strategies

Students will be asked to complete a worksheet that requires them to demonstrates the
importance of health management strategies by drawing what it looks like when they use a
health management strategy versus what it looks like when you do not. At the bottom of the
worksheet they are asked to write three reasons why health management strategies are
important.

Discussion: Influences on Health Practices

The teacher will lead a class discussion using the discussion questions below to encourage
student participation. The teacher will make a list on the board of influences as students bring
them up in discussion.
Discussion Questions:
What are some examples of health habits you have?
Do you think you have
mostly positive health habits?
a mix of positive and negative health habits?
 mostly negative health habits?
Why do you do these things? (Can use specific examples and ask why).
What are some reasons to make healthy choices?
What are some reasons to make unhealthy choices?
Are these reasons coming from you or someone/something else?

Modifications for English Language Learners and Students with Special Needs
These students will be provided with a note guide to help them follow along with the lecture
The teacher will check for comprehension throughout each section of the lesson by
Looking for indications of comprehension
Asking if anyone needs clarification
The teacher will provide one on one instruction as necessary throughout each segment of the
lesson.
 Introduction
Health Management Strategies
 Health Management Strategies
Note Guide
What health habits do we have?
_____________
Exercising
_____________
Hygiene
Check-ups
Managing stress
Other: __________________________
What is health management?
Health management is a routine of positive health _____________ and
_____________ used to keep us healthy.
What are some strategies we can use to make positive health choices?
Learning what decisions are healthy and unhealthy
_____________ unhealthy decisions
Making a routine with _____________ health habits
Finding ways to remind ourselves and each other to stay _____________
Other: __________________________