Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being For All Ages

Title of Project: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being For All Ages

Schools and Teachers

Park View Elementary School Teacher: Liz Bellucci

ENL Proficiency Level | ENL Program | Standards | Technology

Emerging, Transitioning | Stand-Alone | STANDARD 6, STANDARD 7 | Flipgrid

Assessments

I will observe students determining what categories should be created and what foods go into each. Students will discuss how they feel when they or other people eat foods from each category. As a summative students will create a poster to share knowledge about healthy eating with their peers.

Description

Students place pictures of food in categories and then discuss how eating food from the healthy/unhealthy category makes you feel. Students watch video and read book about healthy/unhealthy eating and interview staff. Finally students brainstorm ways to show case what they've learned to their school community and create posters to hang in the hallway.

Content

I can categorize foods and discuss how you feel when eating them.

Language

I can create a poster to educated my peers using what I learned about healthy eating habits.

Technology

I can listen to a video read aloud and watch a short movie about healthy and unhealthy eating habits.

Student work

Procedure

Look, Listen, Learn

Introduce the topic/project
Show kids pictures of healthy foods and unhealthy foods
Cut out pictures of different foods from magazines and laminate
List, group, label- Have students describe what they see in the pictures. Have students brainstorm names of foods in pictures
What do some of these things have in common?

Once someone says, healthy unhealthy, say, “lets stay with that”

Ask students to place photos in to two different categories
Use this to lead into a healthy/unhealthy food choices
Ask questions that get students to ask questions
- What do you think about that?
- What does that make you think about?
- Do you see any problems or any solutions?
- What would change if you ___________?
- How is _______ different from __________?
- What is the relationship between _________?
- What is the difference between ____________ and _________?

Ask Questions

Read “The Berenstain Bears, Too Much Junk Food.”
The Berenstain Bears And Too Much Junk Food, Book Read Aloud
Watch the cartoon, “The Berenstain Bears, Too Much Junk Food.”
The Berenstain Bears: Too Much Junk Food/Go to Camp - Ep.13
Ask, what do we know about staying healthy? What questions do you have about staying healthy (mind/body)? Why do we need to try to be healthy?

Understand the Problem

Students will learn while interacting and asking questions about food pictures and Berenstain videos.
Interviews with experts
- Social Worker
- School nurses: What questions can we ask our nurse about eating choices
- Lunch ladies: What questions can we ask.
- Gym teachers

Navigate Ideas

Brainstorm how to improve these things
Healthier food choices
Healthier free time activities

Create a Prototype

Hallway poster
Create Menus/Posters/Brochures to raise awareness at home and at school
Replace unhealthy snacks with healthy choices after school and as they pack for the next day and during other meals at home
Ask mom/dad/family for healthy choices from their culture (mango, papaya, dates, figs, okra, molokhea (Jew’s Mallow), whole wheat pita/tortillas, …)
Bulletin Board to “park” your ideas for whole school, classroom, etc. and Flipgrid

Highlight and Fix

Edit/fix ideas above and choose the “best” to launch

Launch to an Audience

Students read/perform PSAs on PVTV that are televised in the school in the morning to teach their schoolmates these tips
Clips of the above are shared with parents and siblings at home

Resources and Other Materials

Flipgrid
Google Slides Presentation

Reflection

I found that creating a project where students were in charge of their learning kept them engaged. I provided them with pre cut out foods which was an important time saver. I asked the students to put foods in piles and they came up with a healthy and unhealthy category. I introduced a third category called, "We have different opinions" when it became clear that foods that were healthy in one family were not healthy in another. This allowed all student views to be validated. I made sure to include foods from both traditional, Russian, American and El Salvadorian Cuisine and food so that students could create categories based on what they actually ate at home. They loved creating posters to show off the foods that they categorized as good choices.