SLU Laboratory Elementary School

“The Wealth In Me”Grades 6-8

Unit Plan Summary:

Children now more than ever are becoming restless and are part of

statistics for a number of diseases. This unit intends to let them realize the

importance of their health. The students will be asked to assume the role of a

documentarian and a profiler of a healthy and a sick person. The profiles

have to be written on the class wiki site. They should be able to create a

brochure that will give practical means of maintaining one’s health.

Essential Question

Who is truly wealthy?

Unit Questions

• Why do people always say health is wealth ?

• How do relationships with family and friends bring about my overall health?

•What are the physical and mental needs of a person?

•What are the effects of physical and mental state to one’s health?

Content Questions

Benefits of Using Project Approaches, Ongoing Assessment, and CFQs in My Unit

• Students use their writing skills to write a simple profile about a person they perceive to be practicing a healthy lifestyle.

• Their writing has a real audience—a healthy and an unhealthy person.

• Students collaborate with peers to interview a person in their community.

• They learn writing and thinking skills while they are working on the project.

• Throughout the project they give and receive feedback on their work.

By Using Project Approaches, Ongoing Assessment, and CFQs

My Students Will: Experience interviewing and interacting

with real persons and to be able to publish results of their outputs using technology to enhance their learning

Gain self-assessment and self-direction skills that they will use and build on all year long

Gauging Student Needs Assessment

I will use my Essential and Unit Questions to:

• Find out what students think about what wealth truly means and why we always say that health is wealth.

• Gather information on higher-order thinking and 21st century skills:

• By synthesizing the health habits of the persons interviewed by all the groups

• By taking a stand in promoting the importance of practicing good health habits

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Gauging Student Needs Assessment

What I will learn from the assessment

• What my students think about health habits and

• What writing process my students use

What my students will gain from the assessment

• An articulation of their thoughts about a healthy person

• A chance to set goals in maintaining a healthy life

My Goals

• Learn about different kinds of technology that will motivate my students

• Find ways to get my students to do more activities requiring higher-order thinking

• Learn from other teachers some strategies for helping students do projects

Let’s Have a Great Year!