Healthy Question Prompt
Short description of activity: Use the healthy question posters as prompts for classroom discussion, collage or drawing, opinion or research paper projects.
Type of activity: Content Connection
Minimum Time Needed for Activity: 15 minutes +
Grade Level: K – 12th
Subject Area: ELA, Math, Health
Materials:
- Print Healthy Question Poster #1 or Healthy Question Poster #2 on letter or legal paper, or write the question on the board/online student portal.
- If collaging or drawing, supplies appropriate to that class. Magazines, newspapers, pictures students take and print. Glue, scissors, colored pencils, markers, etc.
Set up:
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Introduce a discussion around what “healthy” means, and that it can mean something different to different people.
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Introduce discussion about physical activity and exercise. these can be through play, chores, intentional intense workouts or mindful movement.
Play:
Drawing/collage:
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- Students can use an 8.5 x 11” sheet of paper with the prompt printed at the top and draw a picture of themselves doing a healthy activity, or illustrating why it is important to be healthy. Encourage students to fill the page and add captions or explanations.
- Students can cut and paste pictures from magazines, newspapers, etc to answer the prompt. Have the picture tell a story or explain the importance of healthy activities.
Variations:
ELA/Health:
- Have students use the question as a prompt for an opinion writing.
- Paragraph with opening statement, supporting ideas and closing statement.
- Essay with an opening paragraph, two supporting paragraphs that more fully explain supporting ideas and a conclusion.
- Research paper that uses information from a source (Scholastic News, USDA, MyPlate, etc) to support the student’s point of view.
- Use sight words, spelling or vocabulary words in the captions of the pictures collaged or drawn.
- Write a short story to use vocabulary and spelling words.
Math/NGSS:
- Have students create a list of possible answers to either of the questions/prompts.
- Have students survey their peers to identify if they agree or disagree with the answers.
- Rank answers in order of importance, etc.
- Represent the answers using a graph or table.
- Identify average, median, range, etc.
- Calculate percentages
- Can students identify trends?
- Is there any research similar to these questions that could be used as a prompt for the survey to compare the student population to the research population? Look for cited research in articles from Scholastic News, Sports Illustrated Kids, Junior Scholastic, Discover, etc.
- In what ways does the surveyed student population match the research population? How is the population different? Does that explain similarities or differences in the answers?
- In what ways are the answers similar or different between the two populations? Can students suggest why, or what it means?
Standards:
ELA Standards > Reading: Informational Text > Key Ideas and Details; Integration of Knowledge and Ideas; Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
ELA Standards > Writing > Text Types and Purposes; Research to Build and Present Knowledge;
ELA Standards > Speaking and Listening > Comprehension and Collaboration; Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Math Standards > Measurement & Data > Represent and interpret data; Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume
Math Standards> Statistics and Probability> Develop understanding of statistical variability; Summarize and describe distributions; Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population; Draw informal comparative inferences about two populations.
Health Education Standards: 1, 3, 4
PE Standards> The physically literate individual demonstrates the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness; The physically literate individual recognizes the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction.
NGSS Standards> Life Sciences> From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes