Subject:

Bath School Department 2003
Content Area: Health
Grade: 5

Content Standard: D. Influences on Health
Students will understand how media techniques, cultural perspectives, technology, peers, and family influence behaviors that affect health.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators
Students will be able to: Essential Elements
(Specific grade level learning objectives) Suggested
Performance Activities Suggested
Classroom Assessments Vocabulary

2. Analyze how messages from media influence both health behaviors and the selection of health information.

Students will be aware of media bias and the effect it may have on healthy choices.

Look at ads from magazines and newspapers and discuss the "message".

Using videotaped commercials, discuss the "message".

Adapt LAD task, The Way We Look, to fit fifth grade.

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3. Analyze the effect of technology on personal and family health.

Students will be aware of media bias and the effect it may have on healthy choices

See Performance Activity B2.

See B1.

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4. Describe how school, family and peers influence the health of adolescents.

Students will become aware of influential factors to good health choices.

As part of the nutrition unit, have a class discussion of eating disorders.

School nurse visit and talk

School chef visit and talk

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Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)	Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
2. Analyze how messages from media influence both health behaviors and the selection of health information.	Students will be aware of media bias and the effect it may have on healthy choices.	Look at ads from magazines and newspapers and discuss the "message". Using videotaped commercials, discuss the "message".	Adapt LAD task, The Way We Look, to fit fifth grade.	.
3. Analyze the effect of technology on personal and family health.	Students will be aware of media bias and the effect it may have on healthy choices	See Performance Activity B2.	See B1.	.
4. Describe how school, family and peers influence the health of adolescents.	Students will become aware of influential factors to good health choices.	As part of the nutrition unit, have a class discussion of eating disorders. School nurse visit and talk School chef visit and talk	.	.