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Week 3: July 21 - July 27
Monday, July 21
Food & Nutrition - Lesson Outline
Classroom Rules
Raffle Ticket & Group Competition Reminder
Overview of Today’s Lesson (Goals for Today)
Define: The 6 Food Groups
Game: Match the Foods
Students work together to match different foods to their correct food groups
Lecture: Healthy Eating Food Groups
Fruits, Grains, Dairy, Protein, Vegetables, Oils
Activity: Which Food Group Is This?
Show pictures of foods and have students guess which group they belong to
Explain why each food group benefits the body and supports overall health
Mini Lesson: How to Portion Food Groups
Activity: Build Your Own Healthy Plate
Students draw their favorite foods within each category on a plate diagram
Share completed plates with classmates
Game: Jeopardy (Food & Nutrition Edition)
Introduce Take-Home Worksheet
Students track what they eat throughout the week and bring it back to class
Navigating a Market - Lesson Outline
Warm-Up Questions
Definitions & Sentence Structures
Students practice saying sentence structures with each other
Examples:
“I want to buy this apple.”
“How much does this milk cost?”
Discounts (%): Understanding and Applying Price Reductions
Game: Market Simulation
Using knowledge from the prior Food & Nutrition lesson, students sell and buy foods in two rounds
Set Up Stores
Students put up their store sign, lay out printed food items, and arrange their play money
Customer Role
Customers try to buy all the foods on their grocery list
They talk to sellers, ask for prices, and pay using their provided money
Seller Role
Sellers greet customers, use practiced sentence structures, and give prices
Apply discounts when needed and calculate change correctly
Wrap-Up Reflection
Game:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1000uIuAD8KLooxiij66Zio1uoKizCf6bT6gps7t8y-w/edit?usp=sharing
Scavenger Hunt - Lesson Outline
Warm-Up Question
Overview of Today’s Lesson (Goals for Today)
Lesson 1: Directions & the Compass
Examples: Up/North, Down/South, Left/West, Right/East
Lesson 2: Direction Movements
Example: “What is going across something?”
Quiz: Identify Structures from Images or Descriptions
Game: Crossword Puzzle (direction-themed)
Activity: Scavenger Hunt
Students start in their home classrooms
Follow clues placed at various locations until reaching the final destination
Groups compete to finish in the shortest time
The group with the fastest completion time wins
Slideshow:
Tuesday, July 22
Why We Get Sick - Lesson Outline
Game: Infection Tag
One person is sick, everyone else is healthy. Healthy people become sick when they are touched by the sick person/people. People who are sick raise their hands while infecting to indicate. This activity is meant to show the speed and infectiousness of diseases and getting people sick.
Warm up Questions
What is living?
Ex: Picture of ‘mushroom’ vs ‘knife’
Viruses vs. Bacteria
Lecture Review
Virus & Bacteria Prevention
Activity: Draw your own virus or bacteria
American Pop Culture in Music - Lesson Outline
Lesson Outline
Warm up Questions
Overview of Today’s Lesson (Goals for Today)
‘What Are Musical Instruments?’ Introduction
Show examples of instruments and explain they are tools used to make music.
Quick discussion: “Can you make music without instruments?” (voice, clapping, beatboxing).
Five Types of Musical Instruments
Explain the categories (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboards).
Show pictures or short video clips of each type with sound.
Music Genres in America
Introduce 4–5 big American music genres: Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop, Country, Jazz.
Play a short clip (10–15 seconds) of each.
Ask: “What do you notice about the sound?” (fast/slow, instruments, beat, singing style).
Connect genres to culture (ex: Hip-hop and street fashion, Country and cowboy culture, Rock and rebellion).
Activity: Guess the Music Genre
Students work in pairs or small groups to guess the genre.
Purpose: Practice recognizing sounds and connect them to cultural identity.
Activity: Turn and Talk
Prompt: “My favorite American music genre is __________ because __________.”
Students share with a partner.
A few volunteers share with the class.
Junior Engineer - Lesson Outline
Warm up Questions
Topic 1: Shapes
Introduce common engineering shapes, show why some shapes are stronger than others
Game: Shape Hunt
Teacher shows pictures of everyday objects (ex: soccer ball, slice of pizza, etc)
Students identify the shapes they see. Get students to recognize how basic shapes are the foundations of their lives and design
Topic 2: Structure
Explain what a structure is
Show examples of famous structures, discuss what makes them strong
Topic 3: Real life connections
Connect shapes and structures to students’ daily life
Discuss how engineers solve real problems
Activity: Building a structure (bridge)
Materials provided: popsicle sticks, glue, colored markers
Challenge: build the strongest bridge possible. After building, test the bridges together by placing textbooks on them
Worksheet:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ILagwWTbCyU41Z-8mFTTcytA10PAMJZ4oWBq5M7dtE/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday, July 23
Color & Emotion - Lesson Outline
Overview of Today’s Lesson (Goals for Today)
Warm up Activity
Show pictures of characters (Ex: Spongebob, hulk, elsa, pikachu). Students guess the main color of the character. Discussion in why they think these characters are represented by these colors
Ex: Hulk is green because it shows strength and power
Lecture (Primary, secondary, other colors)
Explain primary colors, show how secondary colors are created, introduce warm and cool colors
Game: Color Mixer
Teacher demonstrates mixing colors, students try and make a named color
Colors can show emotion
Activity: Create and draw your own character using colors and emotions
Worksheet:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vViuMCRkvS_angAtHkekx3RfRnwJoBFfXDpBffFFtUY/edit?usp=sharing
Geo Expert - Lesson Outline
Overview of Today’s Lesson (Goals for Today)
Topic 1: Land forms
Show pictures of mountains, rivers, valleys, etc
Topic 2: Countries
Show a world map, identify a few key countries and their capitals
Topic 3: Biomes
Introduce major biomes: desert, rainforest, tundra, grassland, ocean
Kahoot
Students play kahoot quiz, reinforce learning in a competitive way
Worksheet:https://docs.google.com/document/d/10BVW2AJLkDFYEXF-EhyNZqWH2sK7LunJC_5IykxgjKI/edit?usp=drivesdk
Instructional Cooking - Lesson Outline
Warm up Questions
Overview of Today’s Lesson (Goals for Today)
Activity: Guess the Appliance
Game: Running Dictation
Students split into groups and pick a scribe to stay at the table. Papers with three hints about an appliance are placed around the room. One student at a time runs to read a paper, memorizes the hints, and tells them to the scribe. The group works together to guess the appliance.
Cooking Verbs
Instruction Lecture
What is a recipe
What are transitions (First, next, after, finally, etc.)
Parts of a recipe
Game: Sandwich Art
Make sandwich art with the ingredients provided. Students use creativity and learn how to write instructions for how to make their sandwiches
Compare and share your sandwiches
Reflection: how was the hardest part of the activity, what was something new you learned?
Game_Instructions:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TiKJtJYI-PDDupI_yrDckaVGv80K89RwRxGughbf9rM/edit?usp=sharing
Thursday, July 24
Anatomy - Lesson Outline
Classroom rules review
Overview of Today’s Lesson (Goals for Today)
Part 1: Outside body parts
Show and point out while students repeat after teacher
Activity: ‘Heads, shoulders, knees, and toes’ Song
Repeats faster each time
Game: ‘Teacher says…’
Teachers gives commands using body parts
Part 2: Inside body parts
Point to location of internal body parts
Explain their uses and functions
Kickball - Lesson Outline
Holidays Introduction
Thanksgiving, Diwali, Dia de los Muertos, Carnival, Passover, Timkat
Kickball Rules
How to play
Point system
Questions:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jwRgOZizlvNTgihJA_AtBOCHUABAoPFyfC9qStdK1oE/edit?usp=sharing
Jeapordy:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ah3zPYg-gKqBeAz88HfPHGaxZi8YNz192HWMHzOpQZM/edit?usp=sharing
Ending Ceremony Practice & Rehearsal - Lesson Outline
Students at the start of week 2 have already been preparing a song to perform for teachers and parents at the ending ceremony.
Warmup
Vocal warmups (stretch, breathe, hum, scales) & Review the lyrics together
Chosen Songs:
Class A: Good Time - Owl City & Carly Rae Jepson
Class B: Dynamite - BTS
Class C: Love Story - Taylor Swift
Class D: Cup Song - Anna Kendrick
Teach students about stage etiquette (how to bow, smile, wait for music, how to hold lyrics)
Clean and tidy the classroom together (wipe whiteboards, mop the floors, reposition tables, take out the trash, etc.)
Friday, July 25
Ending Ceremony - Outline
All students perform practice rehearsals in their assigned performances with teacher guidance.
Practice transitions between performances (getting on/off stage, where to stand, etc.)
Feedback from teachers after each run