Dream On

Subject: Science Theme: Recharge Grades: 3-5, with K-2 adaptation Lesson Overview: Students will learn how sleep affects the brain. They will then analyze an article on sleep zones and determine the changes they can make to their sleep zones at home to improve their sleep. Students will then implement the appropriate changes at home and analyze how the changes affect the quality of their sleep on a qualitative level. Learning Objectives: Students will be able to: Identify the negative consequences of not getting appropriate sleep Design the perfect sleep zone for themselves Implement sleep zone changes at home and record and analyze results Academic Standards: National Science Education Standards 4ASI1.4 Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry: Use data to construct a reasonable explanation 4ASI2.1 Understandings about scientific inquiry: Asking and answering a question 4FSPSP1.2 Individuals have some responsibility for their own health. Students should engage in personal care - dental hygiene, cleanliness, and exercise - that will maintain and improve health. Understandings include how communicable diseases, such as colds, are transmitted and some of the bodys defense mechanisms that prevent or overcome illness. National Educational Technology Standards 3. Research and Information Fluency b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. 6. Technology Operations and Concepts Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students: b. Select and use applications effectively and productively.

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fit Takeaways: Your body and mind need sleep. Choose to get the sleep you need. Getting enough sleep impacts my ability to make good food and move choices. fit Resources: Your Head-to-Toe Guide to Sleep (article) http://fit.webmd.com/kids/recharge/article/sleep-guide Whats Sleep Got to Do With Weight? http://fit.webmd.com/kids/recharge/article/balance-weight-sleep Make the Perfect Sleep Zone (article) http://fit.webmd.com/kids/recharge/article/create-sleep-zone Picture of the Brain http://www.webmd.com/brain/picture-of-the-brain Time Frame: This lesson requires one 45-minute session for students to learn about the importance of sleep and design changes to their sleep zone. After students to implement changes for 2-3 weeks, another 30 to 45-minute session is recommended to review results. Teacher Prep: Teachers need to gather a picture of a brain and a person who is sleeping for each group. Students will need plain paper to draw their sleep zones prior to creating digital versions on the computer. Vocabulary: Sleep zone the room in which you sleep every night. Classroom Activities: Engage 1. Show students a picture of a brain and a picture of someone who is sleeping. Ask students how they think the two pictures might be related. After several suggestions, explain to students that sleep affects our brains. Students might be surprised to learn that when we sleep, both our bodies and our brains remain active. 2. Pose the following questions to students and provide time for them to brainstorm and then discuss their answers. What time do you usually go to bed? Awaken? How many hours of sleep do you get a night on average? Do you think youre getting enough sleep?
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3. Divide students into small groups and have them read the article Your Head-to-Toe Guide to Sleep. Students should take notes about how sleep affects the body and the brain. Ask students to pay particular attention to all that goes on while they are sleeping. 4. Ask students to share their findings in their groups and then share out to the entire class the one piece of information they found most interesting or surprising. Ensure that students understand that the brain needs not just sleep but good sleep in order to perform its functions correctly. 5. Explain to students that they are going to carry out an experiment to attempt to improve their sleep. Explore 1. Have students read the article What's Sleep Got to Do With Weight? 2. Ask students to discuss negative things that happen to people when they dont get good sleep. Ask how this new information relates to what they learned from the first article. 3. Ensure that students understand that getting poor or insufficient sleep affects both the mind and body. 4. Pose the following questions and give students a few minutes to brainstorm and write down their answers. Describe what your bedroom or the place where you sleep looks like. Do you think the place where you sleep is affecting how well you sleep? Why or why not? 5. Hand out blank paper and have students draw the area where they sleep every night. 6. Have students read the article Make the Perfect Sleep Zone. Have students compare their picture of their own sleep zone to what the article describes as the perfect sleep zone. What is similar? What is different that they could improve upon? 7. Encourage students to create a list of potential changes to their sleep zones. They should organize the items on their list into two categories: changes that cost money and changes that cost nothing. 8. Have students create plans to improve their own sleep zones based on what they learned from the article. Once students have brainstormed the elements of a perfect sleep zone, they can use Kerpoof or another free Web-based authoring tool to design their ideal sleep zones. 9. Ask students to go home and make at least one significant change to their sleep zone. Encourage them to initiate the changes with ones that cost nothing, because these changes can be made immediate. They should talk to their parents about changes they want to make that require an investment.

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10. Once students have made the change(s), have them start collecting data on a chart resembling the following: Day Monday Sleep Time 9:00 PM Awake Time 6:00 AM Hours slept 9 How did you feel upon awakening? Tired How did you feel throughout the day? I got tired before lunch and again before dinner.

11. Students should collect data for 1-2 weeks. Explain 1. Place students into groups and have them compare their data to that of other students. What is the average number of hours asleep in their groups? Do they see any connections between the amount of sleep and how they and their classmates felt upon waking and throughout the day? What can they conclude about the relationship between sleep and how our bodies and minds feel when were awake? 2. Have students discuss the changes they made to their sleep zones and which ones seemed to have the most positive impact. 3. Reinforce that students need at least 10 hours of good sleep each night to be at their healthiest. Having the appropriate sleep zone can improve sleep and guard against the negative consequences associated with poor sleep. Elaborate 1. Students can extend the experiment by making additional changes to their sleep zones and/or recording data for additional weeks, including prior to making changes to their sleep zones. 2. Students can analyze all the sleep zones within their own houses and use the articles to suggest changes to improve parents and siblings sleep zones and sleep experiences. Students can then report back to the class about any observed differences improved sleeping zones have made in the household. Evaluate 1. Ask students to reflect on any differences they noticed in how well they slept before and after their sleep zone changes.

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2. Have students answer the following questions and support their claims with evidence: How many hours of sleep do you need each night? Identify three negative consequences associated with poor sleep. What kind of colors should you have in your room to improve your sleep and why? What parts of your sleep zone were in need of improvement and how did you change them? K-2 Adaptation WebMD Resources: To Be Your Best, You Need Rest http://fit.webmd.com/jr/fit-songs/fit-songs?vid=vd-1868-junr-0004 Get Ready for Bed http://fit.webmd.com/jr/recharge/pdf/pdf-get-ready-for-bed-game Classroom Activities: 1. Explain to students that youre going to play a song and you want them to listen for reasons why its important to rest. Play the song To Be Your Best, You Need to Rest. 2. Ask students to list reasons they heard. Explain that rest helps us be in a good mood and have plenty of energy. 3. Explain to students that one way to get enough rest is to sleep well every night. 4. Ask students what they do before they go to bed every night. After students provide several answers, explain that having a regular night time routine that helps them wind down after their busy days can help improve their sleep. 5. Explain to students that they are going to play a Get Ready for Bed Game. Provide Get Ready for Bed cards and a My Bedtime Plan handout to each student. Explain to students how the game works and provide them with time to fill in the blank Get Ready for Bed card and design their plan. 6. Have students share the cards they designed and compare their plans. Ask students which cards they included in their plans and why. Ask them to share why they chose to leave certain cards out of their plans. 7. Help students understand that we all need to get enough rest to be healthy, but different people have different ways that they like to settle into sleep. 8. Encourage students to share their bedtime plans with their parents and talk about changes they can make to their routines to get better rest and feel healthier and more energetic.

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