Model of Teaching: Inquiry

Student Teacher Name: Morgan Duss & Carson Suntrapak Date of Lesson: 30 June 2021

Grade Level(s): 2nd Subject Area(s): Health, ELA Duration: 45 min

Content Standard(s): 2nd Grade Health - 1.3.N Discuss the benefits of eating a nutritious breakfast every day.

Supporting Standards: 2nd Grade Health

1.4.N List the benefits of healthy eating (including beverages and snacks).
7.1.N Examine the importance of eating a nutritious breakfast every day.
2.1.N Discuss how family, friends, and media influence food choices.
W 1.1 Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that
support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding
statement or section.

Learning Objective: SWBAT describe the importance of eating a nutritious breakfast by working in pairs to come up with reasons
why they can eat a nutritious breakfast every day.

Materials: Google slide presentation, document camera, Nutritious Breakfast handout, Healthy Food Happy Body handout,
https://www.myplate.gov/life-stages/kids, tablet, wifi, paper, pencil

LESSON PLAN SYNTAX

Teacher/Student Script Student Engagement

Note the following:
Script what you will say, ask, and do. ● Differentiation & Grouping
Include anticipated student responses and actions. ● Explicit Language Instruction
● Instructional Strategies/Materials
● Technology Integration
● Connections to Theory

Anticipatory Set Teacher: Good morning scholars! As you are getting Differentiation:
settled for the day, I’d like you to think about your ● Give the option for disabled
favorite breakfast food and write it on the board when or handicapped students to
you’re ready. also write down on a piece of
Students write their favorite breakfast food on the paper their favorite foods and
board. Expected answers: waffles, pancakes, cereal, have a fellow student or
bagels, pop tarts, fruit, bacon, granola bars. teacher write it on the board
for them.
● Disabled/Handicapped
students can also raise their
hand and say their favorite
breakfast food out loud to be
written on the board by the
teacher
Instructional Strategies/Materials
● Dry erase marker/Use of
large dry erase board in
classroom
● Tablets (if needed for
differentiation)

Present/Pose Teacher: Today we are going to be looking at a Explicit Language Instruction

Question question I have written down and using our thinking ● Swapping in different
caps to figure out an answer. Now you might already meanings for “important” and
 have some ideas to the question, but I bet after we “nutritious”
do some research you will have some even better Instructional Strategies
ideas! Ok my 2nd graders, the question is on the ● Issue based inquiry
document screen right here, “Why is it important to Instructional Materials
eat a nutritious breakfast every day?” Please write ● Pencil
this question down on your paper. ● Paper
Students: Write the question down on their paper.
Teacher: Ok before we dive into the question, let’s
look at the words in it. First, I see the word important.
Important is that something means a lot. So, above
the word ‘important’, would you please write “means
a lot.”
Students write “means a lot” over the word
“important”
Teacher: Great! Now, let’s look at the word
‘nutritious.’ Nutritious means healthy, which also
means that it is good for you, so above the word
‘nutritious, can you please write “healthy.”
Students write “healthy” over “nutritious”
Teacher: Great. So now our question with these
words we substituted to help us understand what it
means is, “Why does it mean a lot to eat a healthy
breakfast every day?”

Make Hypotheses Teacher: Now students, I am going to have you Differentiation/Grouping

partner up with the person next to you and talk about ● Heterogenous or
why you think it means a lot to eat a healthy homogenous grouping is
breakfast every day. Take some notes as you think applicable if desired
and talk, then we will regroup as a whole class after. Instructional Strategy
Students: Discuss thoughts with partners, writing ● Think-Pair-Share to have
down notes on their paper about what they’ve students use 2 of 4 language
discovered/what they think. domains. This also allows for
Expected answers: healthy food is good for you, them to feed off of each other
eating healthy food every day makes you big and to build on ideas they are
strong. discussing
● Brainstorming

Gather Data Teacher: To help us make our answer extra strong, I Technology Integration
have some handouts for you to look at and read with ● Students use tablets to visit
your partner. I also want you to visit MyPlate website
https://www.myplate.gov/life-stages/kids to look at Instructional Strategies/Materials
what they think you should be eating. Please take ● Graphic handouts
notes of anything you notice that is interesting or ● Tablets
something you did not know before. Again, the point ● Paper
of this activity is to help us understand why it means ● Pencil
so much to eat a healthy breakfast every day.
Please partner up again and review the handouts
and website, take notes, and think about how this
information can help us answer our big question!
Students: Partner up and read handouts/website with
one another.

Assess Hypotheses Teachers: Ok 2nd graders let’s all bring it back to the Instructional Strategy
(by analyzing data) whole class. I loved hearing the conversations going ● Classroom group discussion
on as I was walking around the room! You all had allows for students to hear
some great thoughts and ideas and I can’t wait to their peer’s ideas/opinions
 hear them all! Now that you’ve had the chance to do and so some self reflection to
some research, how has your answer to the question see if their answer truly did
changed? change at any point during
Students: Share their new thoughts and ideas to the lesson.
answer the question. Expected answers: Eating
sugar for breakfast makes you crash, eating a
nutritious breakfast makes you have energy the
whole day, eating healthy will make you grow bigger
and stronger.

Generalize about Teacher: Now, I want you to come up with 4 Instructional Strategy
Findings sentences in your journal telling me about the ● Journal writing
benefits of eating a nutritious breakfast. I want the
first sentence to be stating your opinion on the Instructional Materials
importance of eating a nutritious breakfast, and then ● Journal
3 sentences to be reasons why everyone should eat ● Pencil
a nutritious breakfast. The last sentence will need to ● Notes
be your concluding sentence to wrap everything up.
Remember, you can use your notes to help you
come up with the 3 reasons why and also the
reasons that some of your peers just shared out.
Expected outcome: “Do you eat a healthy breakfast
every day? It is important to eat a healthy breakfast
every day because healthy food is good for you.
Also, eating healthy food every day helps you grow
big and strong. Last, eating a healthy breakfast will
help give you energy for the whole day. I think
everyone should eat a nutritious breakfast to stay
healthy.”

Analyze the Process Teacher: Okay scholars, let’s think back to what we Instructional Strategy
learned just now! I’m going to ask you some more ● Classroom group discussion
questions to think about. What did we start this ● Issue based inquiry
inquiry process with?
Student: You started by asking us a question.
Teacher: Yes! What question did I ask you?
Student: You asked us why is it important to eat a
nutritious breakfast every day?
Teacher: Exactly! Then what did we do next?
Student: We came up with answers.
Teacher: Right! This was called using our
background knowledge. So I asked you what you
knew already before giving you any more
information. Then what did we do?
Student: We looked at handouts and the MyPlate
website and did research.
Teacher: Yes you did! You all did research to find
answers to the question I asked. Did you do anything
next?
Students: We took notes and then came up with 5
sentences on why it is important to have a nutritious
breakfast.
Teacher: Did anyone change their answer after they
did research? That happens sometimes!

Assessment Formative Assessment - Notes that were taken throughout the lesson, verbal answers,
discussion with peers

Summative Assessment - 5 sentences (1 introduction sentence, 3 sentences on the

different reasons why, and 1 concluding sentence) answering the question “Why is it
important to eat a nutritious breakfast every day?”