Lesson Plan #1

Lesson Understanding and Expressing Feeling

Date Jan 10th
Title/Focus Kind words

Subject/Grade Time
4 Health 2:10-2:45
Level Duration

Unit Understanding and Expressing Feeling Teacher Mrs. U

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning Students will develop effective interpersonal skills that demonstrate responsibility, respect and caring
Outcomes: in order to establish and maintain healthy interactions.

Specific
Learning R–4.1 Recognize that individuals can have a positive and negative influence on the feelings of others.
Outcomes: R–4.3 Recognize that management positive/negative stress can affect health.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will: Understand how words affect each other.

ASSESSMENTS
Observations: ● –observe how “smooth” these lesson transitions go

Key Questions: ● –how well does this activity go!

Notes: ● –make sure camera is charged for this activity

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

● –camera with charged battery
● –Expressing feelings booklet
-two apples (one dropped a few times, a knife and
-Alberta Program of Studies
cutting board

PROCEDURE

Prior to lesson Sit on the carpet!

Introduction Time
Attention Grabber Hold up the apples while sitting on the carpet.
Assessment of Prior
Knowledge No prior assessing other than asking what unit they have done.

Expectations for
Sitting on the carpet listening. 2 mins
Learning and Behaviour

Advance 1. Apple activity

Organizer/Agenda 2. Kind words demonstration
Transition to Body Tell students that they are going to do an apple demonstration.

Body Time

1. Students are sitting at carpet

2. Ask students to pass around an apple that and say something
kind to it, try to think of something different than your partner has
Learning Activity #1
said. If not, that’s okay. Pass it along nicely to each member of the 10 mins
class.
2. Students pass around an apple saying “mean” things to it.

Assess how well students seem to understand the connection between the
Assessments/ Differentiation
apples and feelings

1. Take the apple and cut the one they said nice things too.
2. Cut the apple that they say mean things too!
3. Discuss how the apple that you say nice things too may not show
Learning Activity #2
so much on the outside but does on the inside. 5 mins
4. Discuss an experience that you have had that hurt you on the
inside.

Assessments/ Differentiation Assess how well the students seem receptive to this activity

1. Explain Molly’s story and students work on it while they get their
picture taken of kind words. Explain that while they are working
on their worksheets that you will be calling up each student to put
their back against the whiteboard, then you will call each table
group to go up against the whiteboard to write a kind word
overtop of the students head that the student will not be able to
Learning Activity #3 see because you will be taking a picture of them.
2. List some examples of kind words that they can say to the other 10 mins
classmate.
3. Students start working on Molly’s story worksheets
4. Call up each student to come to the whiteboard that students
will have to write kind words about.

Assess which students are done relatively fast, students can silently read
Assessments/ Differentiation
when they are done!

Closure Time

Assessment of Learning: Assess how well students respond to the questions and activity 10 secs
Feedback From Students: Students hold up their fingers out of of 5 for how much they think they 1
learned from the activity.
Feedback To Students Tell students what you expect for next class or Health lesson 1
Transition To Next
Pick student tables to line up to go to Science 1
Lesson

Sponge
Silent reading after they are done Molly’s activity.
Activity/Activities

Reflections from the lesson: This lesson went nicely and the students understood the object lesson part
with the apple demonstration. Next time, it might be good to find a way to speed up writing on the board. For
example, next time I could call up only a few table groups instead of the whole class.