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Arts in Schools
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1. What is valuable about the arts in the classroom?
It allows them to be creative and gives them self-esteem to
do better in other areas in the classroom. In return it brings their scores up.
It’s also something fun to do with teaching and reinforcing other subjects.
2. What did you notice about the teachers in the video?
I noticed that they were all passionate about the arts and
truly believed in the impact it had on children at school. I also noticed they
asked children questions and whatever the answer the children gave it was
correct, but the teacher always gave them alternate ways to look at the
question.
3. Was there anything that you viewed that you would attempt
to do in your future classroom?
What I would use in my classroom would be what the video
recommended about integrating the arts in other subject areas in school. Also I
liked how they said a form of assessment was not what the children memorized
for a test but something you could see by watching the children.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Coordinatied School Health Program
Coordinated School Health Program
School Health Coordinator: Stanley
Cooper
Stanley
Cooper started off as a high school teacher at Evergreen High School in
Colorado. The subject he taught was
anatomy. Stanley Cooper was always interested in the human body, but became
more interested in health when his wife and he had a son who was diagnosed with
diabetes as a young child. After that happened to his son he not only was the
anatomy teacher at his school but also started health programs there. As the
years went he discovered he enjoyed spending his time teaching people about
health and nutrition. He then began to develop a Health and Nutrition group
within his county of Jefferson in Colorado. His health and nutrition group grew
more than anyone in the county expected and in result got the attention of Cass
County in North Dakota. Although Cass County has a Food, Nutrition, and Health
Program Stanley Cooper has been hired to provide Cass County schools with extra
knowledge about health and nutrition, to put on programs, and activities for the
schools. Stanley Cooper has eight other board members working with him to
spread the knowledge about health and nutrition. He will hold School Health Council
meetings on the first Thursday of every month, and will also have presentations
for the School Board the second Monday of every month. These presentations will
tell the School Board what programs and activities will be going on in Cass
County high schools the following month. Stanley Cooper plans on going to each
high school in the county and teaching them about Myplate as one of his
programs. An example of one of his activities is holding a carnival, one day
out of the year for each school, in the summer, that has many different
physical activities to do such as: three-legged race, hula hooping competition,
tug a war, bike races, and more. Also at this carnival it will not have
carnival junk food but nutrition fun food and at each station there will be a
sign that says what carnival food this replaces and how many less calories it
is and what it does for your body. We will do activities like this during the
kids physical education classes at the beginning of the year to start the kids
off with a positive attitude about physical education classes. To let you know
Stanley Cooper a little more we will provide some information about him: he is
Caucasian, a male, a Republican, he is 41, is married, and has 2 kids.
Step 2
Brooks
Bollinger is from Bismarck, North Dakota. He has decided to dedicate some of
his time to Cass County Coordinated School Health Program because he know the
obesity is a problem for America, but he wants to fight it off the best he can
and has decided to help Cass County. Brooks Bollinger played college football
at the University of Wisconsin and went on to get drafted by the New York Jets.
By getting someone who has succeeded in life and made his name known into the
high schools of Cass County will make students listen to what Brooks Bollinger
has to say about health and nutrition. He will visit schools in Cass County
once every year to talk about the importance of eating right and exercising.
The State of Maine Learning Results says students
will understand how to reduce their health risks through the practice of
healthy behaviors. We believe that our Coordinated School Health Program will
teach the county of Cass the same thing through activities and programs, like Brooks
Bollinger coming to talk to students and the carnival idea. That way we will
teach the idea of importance of health and fitness but have fun.
Meetings: What: The meetings that will be held will discuss how well
the program is doing, improvements that can be made, if the current programs
and activities are working to improve education about health and nutrition, and
answer any questions about the program.
Location: Cass
County Board of Education
When: School Health
Council meetings on the first Thursday of every month starting August and end
in May
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Will Consist
of:
·
Getting
the support of the community so they will fund some of the activities we have
planned.
·
Show
how physical education that has been cut from some schools and how it affected
that school.
Step 3
Advertisement
·
On
the homepage of Cass County’s website, www.casscountynd.gov, there will be a advertisement telling the people of Cass County what
the Coordinated Health Plan has planned for Cass County schools.
·
There will also be a advertisement in Cass County Reporter listing the time
and date of the meeting.
·
There
will be three billboards spaced accordingly in Cass County
Billboard:
Cass County Schools
“Teaching Students Exercise
can be FUN!”
Meeting for
Public: Cass County Board of Education
August 8, 2011 6:30
Step 4
Board Members
(8):
Carter Williams: Businessman in Cass
County
Betsy Miller: President of PTA in Central Cass High School/Parent
Clay Simpson: Basketball Coach of West Fargo High
School/Parent
Michel Mann: Physical education teacher at Sullivan
Middle School
Kelsey Hollis: Involved with PTA at North High
School/Parent
Wayne Long: Businessman in Cass County/Parent
Scott Wagner: Commissioner in the Cass County
Government
Cory Steiner: Principle of West Fargo High School
There are
five districts and one person will be on each district, except for the three
largest districts will have two board members on those districts. All board
members will teach each district the same concepts of health and fitness except
if one district has a specific need. Each district will have the same
activities as well as the same amount of activities. By assigning one, or two,
board members to a district it allows for each school in those districts to get
personal attention.
Step 5
Our vision
for the Coordinated School Health Plan is to focus on Physical Education and
Physical Activity. In doing so we belief we will better our P.E. classes and
make our kids of Cass County enjoy exercising and show them there are many different
ways to exercise.
The things
listed below are going to lead us in the right direction of improving Physical
Education and Physical Activity.
·
Improving
P.E. classes
o
High
school, Middle school, and Elementary
§ The Physical Education teachers will
attend the Nutrition and Health Conference every year.
§ The Physical Education teachers must
take their students outside 4 days a week during the months of August-October
and March-May.
§ Have a Physical Fitness Test at
beginning and end of each school year.
o
High
School
§ Learn about a new sport every week:
Baseball, Football, Rugby, Badminton, ect.
§ Practice the new sport you have
learned for the week.
§ Have a short test on the rules of the
game for the sport you learned that week
§ Once a month have a scavenger hunt and
the clues be about the games you learned that month
o
Middle
School
§ Learn about a new sport every week:
Baseball, Football, Rugby, Badminton, ect.
§ Practice the new sport you learn for
the week.
§ Have a day once a month that the kids
vote on their favorite sport for the month and get to play it.
o
Elementary
School
§ Learn about a new basic sport every
two weeks: Baseball, Volleyball, Football, Soccer, ect.
§ On Fridays have station day, each kid
as a station with a fun activity and after ten minutes they rotate to a new
station.
·
Carnival
Day
o
High
school, Middle school, and Elementary School will have it.
o
There
will be fun activities set up like tug-a-war, three-legged races, basketball
free throw competition, and many more.
o
There
will be tables set up that have healthy food at them and on each table there
will be a sign that says what this healthy snack or drink replaces at a
carnival and what are the benefits of eating the healthy one verses the non
healthy one.
·
Brooks
Bollinger
o
He
will come and talk about how P.E. influenced his life and promote physical
fitness.
·
Have
a survey at the end of each school year and ask the students if they belief the
Physical Education class at their school was necessary and fun.
Step 6
Show this chart to committee and tell
them if we do not get Physical Education up to satisfactory needs then it will
soon be taken away from the students. Those counties who have Physical
Education should take full advantage of it.
Figure 7. Percentage of U.S. high school
students attending daily physical education classes. Data from the Youth Risk
Behavioral Surveillance System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(14). [A text
description of this chart is also available.]
How effective are school PE programs in preventing obesity and promoting physical activity? School boards are receiving mixed messages about PE. On one hand, government organizations like the CDC recommend that all schools require daily PE for all students from kindergarten through 12th grade. On the other hand, the predominant conclusion emerging from research studies is that typical school PE is of low quality when compared with ideal PE instruction. School boards, principals, and teachers facing other competing goals, especially academic achievement, may conclude that if existing PE is of limited value, it should be abolished or at least reduced in favor of other academic instruction. However, PE in elementary schools as currently implemented nationwide (and not ideal instruction) plays an important role in containing excess weight gain among girls (13).
·
Health is when we eat correctly, develop healthy exercise and
postural habits and combine these with maintaining a positive outlook.
·
Health Components
o
Physical, Emotional, Social, Environmental,
Mental, and Spiritual
·
Community- a social group of any size who share
government
·
Partnership- an association that has a common
goal and come together because of that goal
We will have a committee party at the end of each year and the district that got the best score on the yearly survey will win a free dinner to the place of their chose.
Lesson Plan on Bones and Organs #2
Logistics a. Grade: Public School 4th grade
b.
Number in class: 25
c. Subject and Topic: Science, Skeletal Bones
d.
Length of Unit: 1 week in class
Instructions:
Dear Students and Parents,
In the classroom we have been
learning about bones and how to build strong bones. To build off of that we
will do an experiment that will last a week. For this experiment we will be putting
one chicken leg bone into a glass of milk and another chicken leg bone into a
glass of coke. Before the experiment starts the students will write their
predictions on what they believe will happen to each bone and why, which should
be 4-5 sentences. Each day the students will take both bones out and will
examine them to see if any changes have occurred. Then they will write down the
changes they see that have occurred in the bone that was in the milk and the
bone that was in the coke. The recording of these changes in each bone should
be 2 sentences. At the end of the experiment the students will write a one page
paper discussing the changes they saw in the bones and talk about whether their
predictions were right or wrong and why.
Checklist:
|
Section/Subsection
|
Points
Given
|
Total
Points
|
|
Predictions
|
|
10
|
|
Records of Change
|
|
50
|
|
Conclusion Paper
|
|
40
|
|
Total
Points
|
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100
|
|
Your
Total
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Lesson Plan on Bones and Organs
Logistics a. Grade: Public School 3nd grade
b.
Number in class: 25
c. Subject and Topic: Science, Skeletal Bones
and Organs
d. Length of
Test: 25 minutes
e. Length of Unit: 3 weeks an
hour a week
Unit Description
Start the unit by reading The Skeleton Inside You by Phillip
Ballestrino
Lecture on bones of the body
Lecture on organs of the body
Discussion on what bones protect
which organ with the class
Homework- Word Search on Bones- http://www.proteacher.com/redirect.php?goto=996
(only bones we went over)
Cut out a skeleton and have them
label the bones they are learning
Cut out organs of the body and have
them match the organ with which bone protects it
Discussion with the class on what
ways they think they can build strong bones
Activity with class talking about
strong bones then they will write a short essay on what they discovered:
ACTIVITY 3
"DEBONING"
1)
In cooperative learning groups, students will observe chicken legs
soaked in vinegar in jars.
2)
Students will observe bones that have not been placed in vinegar.
3)
Students will compare and contrast the similarities and differences
of the sets of bones.
4)
Students will deduce that the bones that were placed in vinegar were
weaker and more flexible.
5)
The teacher will explain that the vinegar contains an acid which dissolve
the
calcium phosphate in the bones. Without
calcium bones will
lose their hardness and will become weaker.
Weighted Grading
Homework: 15%
Quiz on the book: 15%
Classwork: 25%
Essay: 15%
Test: 30%
TOTAL: 100%
Content Outline
1.0
Main Bones of Human Body
1.1
Skull, ribs, and spine
1.2
Pelvis, femur, and patella
2.0
Main Organs of Human Body
2.1
Heart, lungs, stomach, and brain
2.2
Skin, large intestine, and small intestine
3.0
Body Function
3.1
Bones
3.2
Organs
4.0 Healthy Bones
Learning Objectives
1.0
Main Bones of Human Body
1.1
Distinguish the skull, ribs, and spine from
other bones
1.2
Distinguish the pelvis, femur, and patella from
other bones
2.0
Main Organs of the Human Body
2.1
Identify information about the heart, lungs,
stomach, and brain
2.2
Distinguish the difference between Skin, large
intestine, and small intestine
3.0
Body Functions
3.1
List what bones protect which organ
3.2
Name functions of each organ
4.0
Describe ways to make healthy bones
Test Items
Specifications
1.0
Main Bones of Human Body
1.1
Given Instruction, the students will be able to
distinguish the skull, ribs, and spine, with mastery of 85%.
1.2
Given Instruction, the students will be able to
distinguish the pelvis, femur, and petella, with mastery of 85%.
2.0
Body Functions
2.1
Given Instruction, the student will be able to
identify information about the heart, lungs, and stomach, with 75% mastery.
2.2
Given Instruction, the student will be able to
distinguish the difference between skin, the large intestine, and the small
intestine, with 65% mastery.
3.0
Body Functions
3.1
Given Instruction, the student will be able to
list which bones protect which organ, with 75% mastery.
3.2
Given Instruction, the student will be able name
the functions of each organ, with 85% mastery.
4.0 Given Instruction, the student
will be able to describe ways to make bones strong, with 60% mastery.
1. (2.2)
(Knowledge) The area of the small intestine is the size of a soccer field.
2. (2.2)
(Knowledge) The job of the large
intestine is to get rid of the waste products left over.
3. (2.2)
(Knowledge) Skin is the largest organ in the human body.
For the questions below chose the
correct answer as A, B, or C:
4. (2.1)
(Knowledge) Where is your heart located?
A. In the center
of your chest B. Your left of the
chest C. Your right of the chest
5.
(2.1) (Knowledge) Which lung is bigger the left or right?
A. Same size B. Left C. Right
For the questions below respond
with a short answer:
6. (3.2) (Comprehension)
What is the main function of the lungs?
7. (3.2) (Knowledge) Name on of the three jobs the stomach has.
For the questions below fill in the
blank to complete the statement:
8.
(3.1) (Analysis) The ribs
protect what two organs .
9.
(3.1) (Analysis) The skull
protects what organ .
For the following questions match
the correct description with the correct bone:
10. (1.1) (Knowledge) Made up of 22 bones
A. Spine
11. (1.1) (Knowledge) Acts like a cage of
bones around the chest
B. Femur
12. (1.1) (Knowledge) Made up of
primarily vertebra, spinal cord, and discs C. Skull
13. (1.2) (Knowledge) Largest, strongest,
and longest bone D.
Patella
14. (1.2) (Knowledge) Protects the ends
of the femur
E. Ribs
Write an essay for the following
question:
15. (4.0) (Comprehension)
Give three examples of ways that can help you have healthy bones.
Answers:
1. False-
The absorptive surface area of the small intestine is actually about 250 square
meters (almost 2,700 square feet) – the size of a tennis court.
2. True-
The large intestine job is to get rid of any waste products left over.
3. True-
Skin is the human body’s largest organ
4. B
5. C
6. The
main function of the lungs is to provide oxygen for the body.
7. Three
jobs of the stomach is to store the food you have eaten, break down the food
into a liquidly mixture, and to slowly empty the liquidly mixture into the
small intestine.
8. Heart
and lungs
9. Brain
10. C
11. E
12. A
13. B
14. D
15. 1.) Eat a well-balanced diet with a
significant amount of calcium and vitamin D
2.) Exercising regularly
3.) Taking safely precautions to protect
your bones
4.)
Avoiding excessive dieting and thinness
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