Subject Area: HEALTH: Keeping the Family Healthy Grade Level: High School Special Education Day 4 Overview

and Purpose: Through this, students will be able to create new ways that their families can stay healthy. State Standard: Apply critical literacy/thinking skills related to personal, family and community wellness. Demonstrate behaviors that foster healthy, active lifestyles for individuals and the benefit of society. Objectives: Students will list some characteristics of healthy families. The class will describe four skills families need to stay healthy. Timeframe: 1 period (60 minutes) Materials: Elmo Paper Pencil Textbook Formative Assessment: After we have completed this lesson, the students will be asked to write down two things that make their families healthy and two things they could improve on. Detailed Procedural Steps: 1. We will begin this lesson talking about what activities the students participate in, with their families. I will provide them with some examples of what my family does together, showing healthy activities. 2. As the students share some examples, they will be asked to explain why these activities would be considered healthy. 3. We will then read, as a class, the information, from the book, on keeping families healthy. 4. After that, the students will need to write down four ways that their families are and are not healthy. 5. Then the students will come up with two new activities that they can do with their families, to encourage healthiness. 6. They will turn the above information to me at the end of the period. Differentiation:

If some students are not able to come up with the examples on their own, we will brainstorm as a small group, creating a number of examples. Not all students are comfortable reading, especially in front of the class, so it will not be mandatory reading. Students that want to learn can raise their hand, other wise I will read while they follow along.