Конспект урока "Keeping healthy"
Grade 6
Teacher: Azima Dominova
Topic «Keeping healthy»
Objectives: by the end of the lesson students will be able to
practice their listening, reading, writing and speaking skills on the theme “health”
learn about heart functions and ways of keeping healthy.
develop their critical thinking
identify the 5 five basic food groups
analyze information and express their ideas
create healthy menu.
Skills: Reading, Speaking, Listening, Writing
Time: 90 minutes
Materials provided: interactive board, internet, computer, Power Point presentation on the theme “Keeping healthy”, KWL sheets, sheets
with four topics: doing exercises; eating healthy; drinking water and the heart, paper flipcharts, pictures of food, markers and matching cards.
Stage
Activity
What the teacher does
What the students do
Materials
Introducti
on
Warm up
Division
into groups
Teacher creates friendly atmosphere by whispering 4 students
“You are great”, 4 students “You are cool”, 4 students “You
are super”, 4 students “You are excellent”. Then asks them to
create teams, by asking questions.
There must be 4 teams:
• “Super”
• “Excellent”
• “Great”
• “Cool”
Students remember the teacher’s words and then
create teams by asking questions each other. For
example:
- Are you super?
- No, I’m great!
- Are you cool?
- Yes, I am.
Students divide into 4 groups:
• “Super”
• “Excellent”
• “Great”
KWL
Teacher introduces the theme of the lesson “Today we are
going to learn about the ways of keeping healthy”
Teacher gives the KWL sheets to the students and asks them to
Students write discuss and write what they know,
and want to know about keeping healthy at the
lesson.
KWL sheets
write what they know and want to know about keeping healthy
at the lesson.
Brainstorm
Teacher asks some questions:
• How often do you have a meal?
• What did you have for breakfast today?
• Do you think your breakfast is healthy? Why?
• What is your favourite food? Do you know which food
group it belongs to?
• What do you know about healthy food?
• What do you know about healthy life?
• What do you do to keep healthy?
Students answer the questions by telling about their
eating habits and what they know about healthy
food and life.
Power Point
presentation on
the theme
“Keeping healthy”
2. Main
stage
Watching a
video
Teacher offers students to watch a video about healthy eating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQEZAIW42Q
Teacher asks questions
What does this video tell about?
What food is good for your health?
What is usually on your plate?
Teacher says “Now you have an opportunity to be health
experts and study more about healthy life”
Students watch the video, answer the teacher’s
questions and give their opinions.
Video file about
healthy eating
from the
http://www.yo
utube.com/wat
ch?v=8uQEZAI
W42Q
Jigsaw
Teacher asks students of each team to count from 1 to 4 and
divide into 4 groups of experts.
Teacher gives each group the sheets with the topic.
Group # 1: Doing exercises
Group # 2: Eating healthy food
Group # 3: Drinking Water and Milk
Group # 4: The heart
Teacher asks health experts to return to their own groups so
that every team will have experts from all 4 groups. Then she
asks the experts to share their knowledge so that every student
will get information about four topics: doing exercises; eating
healthy; drinking water and the heart.
Students count from 1 to 4 and divide into 4
groups. Each group of experts has 4 students (1
great, 1 super, 1 cool and 1 excellent).
Experts study and discuss the given information.
Group # 1: Doing exercises
Group # 2: Eating healthy food
Group # 3: Drinking Water and Milk
Group # 4: The heart
Experts return to their own groups to share their
knowledge and discuss on four topics: doing
exercises; eating healthy; drinking water and the
heart. Students learn themselves and each other.
Sheets with the
topics
-Doing exercises
-Eating healthy
food
-Drinking Water
and Milk
-The heart
"Dancing
Teacher says: “Now let’s dance for the food groups. Dancing
Students watch the video and repeat the movements
Video file from
for the Food
Groups"
is fun and useful”. Teacher shows the video and dances with
students.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLRdwJ7-bUM
after dancing.
the
http://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=
CLRdwJ7-bUM
Matching
types of
food and
their affects
to our body
Teacher gives the teams cut pieces of the paper and asks to
match types of food and their affects to the body.
Teams match types of food and their affects to the
body.
cut pieces of the
paper for
matching types of
food and their
affects to the
body.
Online quiz
Teacher says “I see you know how each type of food affects to
our body. Now you are going to do online quiz to know how
much you know about your heart. But firstly let us get some
added information about your heart and pulse”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/keeping_he
althy_fs.shtml
Students watch and listen about how heart works
and how it beats when we sleep, walk, sit and run
and then do online quiz.
Online quiz
http://www.bbc.co.
uk/schools/science
clips/ages/9_10/ke
eping_healthy_fs.sh
tml
Creating a
healthy
menu
Teacher gives each team paper flipcharts, pictures of food and
markers to create a healthy menu for breakfast, lunch and
dinner. Criteria: menu must be balanced and healthy.
Teams discuss and create
• “Super menu”
• “Excellent menu”
• “Great menu”
• “Cool menu”
paper flipcharts,
pictures of food
and markers
Presentation
of the menu
Teacher asks each team to choose a presenter and do a
presentation of team’s menu. Presenters should be able to
present all the advantages of their menu and explain how the
menu will affect to our body.
Teams choose presenters and the presenters do
presentations of their menu.
Presentations of
students
3. Closing
stage.
Assessment
Teacher gives students a sheet of paper for assessment and
asks to assess presentation with a help of “Two stars and a
wish”
Students assess presentations using “Two stars and
a wish”. They write two things they like and one
wish about the presentation.
Sheets of paper
for assessment
“Two stars and a
wish”
Reflection
Sharing
opinions
Teacher asks students to write what they’ve learned at the
lesson on KWL sheets. Then teacher asks:
1. What was new information for you at the lesson?
2. What activities did you like most? Why?
3. Are you satisfied with your work and why?
4. What is your conclusion about the lesson?
5. Did your opinion about healthy life change? How and why?
Then teacher says: “I hope you liked the lesson and it was
useful and interesting for you. Thank you for active
participation! Goodbye!”
Students write what they’ve learned at the lesson
on KWL sheets.
Students answer the questions and share opinions.
Students say goodbye to the teacher.
KWL sheets
