A Lesson Plan For Health And Career Education, Safety, Injury Prevention And Its Rationale

Introduction

The lesson plan is a clear guideline on how a teacher should cover all the lessons planned in a given term. It has a format that starts with objectives, activities, materials, procedure, evaluation lessons and the closing, (Bryan, 2013).

Discussion

Lessons to be taught: Health and Career Education, Safety and Injury Prevention and a lesson plan Rationale.

Grade level: 2nd

Objectives

The lesson plan will assist the 2nd grade students on;

Healthy living by participating in physical activities, engaging in healthy relationships and developing healthy eating habits.

Boosting their career development by categorizing the paid and unpaid jobs and outdoor and indoor jobs.

Learning numbers, drama, music and visual arts.

Safety and injury prevention.

Materials

Laptop

Textbooks

Magazines

Journals

Lesson procedure:

The teacher is required to discuss the various ways of maintaining a healthy living, how students should develop their careers, and insertion of skills to help the students maintain safety and prevent injury in forceful situations. This will be done in three lessons.

Activity

The students will be given journals, textbooks and magazines from the library to read and learn in the various ways of maintaining a healthy life, safeness and career development.

Explanation

The teacher will introduce a topic at a time. He/she will engage the students by asking questions randomly and allow for class presentations from their home works and group discussions. The students will also use their laptops and research more about the different skills required in music, dance and drama; learn the different ways of maintaining a healthy life, research on science, social studies, leadership skills in physical education and prevention of injury through appropriate safeness procedures.

Evaluation

There were continuous assessment tests to assess what the students have learned. This can be in the mid of the term or randomly in the class. An end term paper for the whole period would also be essential to evaluate what the students have learned during the whole term. There is also to be an inter-grade competition in the practical sessions. That is in drama, swimming, voice competitions in music and dancing with awards for the best in order to motivate the students.

Lesson 1

Introduction to healthy living

Healthy living is the systematic way in which every person grows into adulthood. Healthy living entails both emotional and physical growth. It involves daily physical activities, healthy relationships and healthy eating habits.

Physical activities that students should engage are swimming, jogging, dancing, and participating in drama and sport activities in school. These activities will help students maintain fitness and curb lifestyle diseases.

Healthy eating practices include washing hands before eating. This will help prevent communicable diseases. Avoiding a fatty breakfast made of foods such as bacon or sausage and consider foods like whole grain bread, berries and yogurt which are less in fats and more of fiber would reduce the chances of the students acquiring disorders like diabetes, high blood pressure and hypertension conditions, (Journal of healthy living, 2010).

Healthy relationships determine how well people interact. The students should learn how to communicate and listen to others. This will further enable friendship making and maintenance both at school and at home.

Lesson 2

An introduction to career development

Career development is how the students maneuver their way to the job market. The job market is dependent on what the student is passionate about. It is divided into the indoor and outdoor jobs, paid and unpaid jobs.

Discussion

The career that a student embarks in life for their in life is highly dependent on what the student is taught in class by their teacher. The teacher should give the students a chance to talk what they want to pursue and later give them an outline of the jobs in the market in case they have a change of mind. This guide gives students an opportunity to make the right decisions on what they wish life to offer to them.

Lesson 3

Introduction to safeness and injury prevention

Injury is any harm caused physically or mentally resulting to pain or discomfort. Safeness is the way to avoid or prevent impairment.

Discussion

The aim of safeness and injury prevention is to help students avoid conceding situations, identify circumstances that would otherwise cause harassment and gaining skills on how to avoid compromising situations.

Importance of the lesson plan (Rationale)

The significance of the plan is for a clear guideline to the teacher and the students which will avoid confusion during the school term. These will avoid skipping of activities or taking some topics for granted. All topics will be given equal preferences and time during the classes. This will help follow up and students will gain the experience, skills and expertise in healthy living, safeness and career development as stipulated in the objectives.

Conclusion

A lesson plan is a clear outline that should be mandatory in every learning institution for the better of the students and teachers. This will save them a big deal of time and proper follow up of the school syllabus. The above lesson plan is detailed and well explained with inclusion of all the requirements that a lesson plan should entail.

Reference

BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 Journal of healthy living. 2010. Take a closer look at lunch. [Online] available at

http://journal of healthy living.com retrieved on 17th November 2013

Bryan. 2013. SAMPLE LESSON PLAN FORMAT #1. [Online] available atwww.indiana.edu/~west/documents/…/WhoaretheFrenchKarenBryan.doc retrieved on 17th November 2013‎.