EDU-213
Professor: Carol Hooey
September 15, 2013
Subject: Science
Grade: 3
Lesson overview, In this Science lesson, students will learn about how vitamins and minerals are important for their bodies. Also how vitamins and minerals help their bodies inside and out to grow and function properly. Students will complete an in-class lesson and watch a short video on vitamins and minerals. I will provide them with materials and articles about how vitamins and minerals. Students will then get into groups of 4 and create different varieties of salads with plastic fruits and vegetables. Last they will design their own plan on how they will include more fruits and vegetables into their daily eating habits. I will then have them write a short paragraph on “why vitamins and minerals are important.”
Key words:
Deficiencies Antioxidant Phytochemical
Fat soluble Free radical
Mega doses Vitamin Mineral Disease
By using the performance assessment I will be able to allow my students to demonstrate the knowledge and skills that they have learned. This assessment requires students to be actively participating and show how they came up with their solution or answer. By utilizing performance assessment in this lesson, my students will be able to take ownership in their own health and strive to be healthy. This will help them to gain a better understanding on how their bodies function and what is essential for their bodies to function properly. Breaking them into groups will motivate them to help each other to come up with different varieties of fruit and vegetable salads and help the students to apply it to their daily eating habits and make better choices with what they put into their bodies. I will be able to have evidence that my students fully