This lesson is for : Grade 10:
Summary
How do we change the eating habits of our students in the Cafeteria? This lesson was a media campaign that is meant to educate students to make healthier choices in the school’s cafeteria by starting a media campaign using Instagram, a #hash-tag, posting educational facts on nutrition, posters, and videos interviews with the staff. In this lesson my students analyzed, constructed, and justified the importance of practicing a lifestyle rich in healthy nutrition. After surveying students, each group’s interpretation of survey data, allowed them to choose the topic they would present for the media campaign.
TIPC Ratings
Research & Information Fluency
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students find, navigate through, and evaluate large amounts of information. The teacher provide guided and independent research opportunities for students to make informed, ethical decisions and create new products (surveys, posters, Instagram Posts, QRCodes to websites). Students created surveys and gathered data to guide the creation of their media campaign, analyzed the data to create a media campaign to appeal to teens to encourage them to make healthy choices.
Communication & Collaboration
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students communicate and collaborate ethically and effectively to reach a common goal or create an authentic product. Students ses a variety of communication methods, worked in self-selected groups, and engaged the student body collaborative projects using technologies that foster communication and collaboration include electronic surveys (Google Forms), posters with QRCodes, original Instagram posts with videos, QRCodes to informative websites. Instagram, video, morning announcements and posters for a media campaign that would encourage the student body to engage in a discussion about healthy dietary decision making.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Rating: Not observed – Explanation: Not a focus of the lesson.
Creativity & Innovation
Rating: Not observed – Explanation: Not a focus of the lesson.
Student Artifact
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