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Fast Food: Healthy or Unhealthy Analyze learners General Characteristics The Lesson is planned for 18 ninth grade Social Study students. The class consists of 11 females and 7 males. The students come from a diverse background. The class consists of 7 Filipinos, 6 Chamorros, 3 Palauan, and 1 Pohnpeian. 4 Americans. Entry Competencies Students are able to read, write and speak in complete sentences. All students are 9th grade level in regards to reading and writing. Students are able to work with excel spreadsheet with little to no assistance. The hearing impaired student is one grade level below class. Learning Styles. The students demonstrate little interest when given individual seat work or routine work. However, students are highly motivated more when it comes to working in groups. Students' participation level is at a high. A sign language interpreter will be accompanying and assisting the student in class. Select, modify, design Methods, Media, & Materials II: State ObjectivesA. Sixth grade math class study students will be able to identify and record the (differences and similarities in calories) of all of all the six fast food restaurants with 90% accuracy. B. Sixth grade math students will be able to use an Excel spreadsheet tocreate graphs that represent the mean, median, mode andrange with 90% accuracy of the data they recorded. C. Sixth math students will be able to use the internet to exploresimilarities and/or differences in calories of a value meal between different restaurants.III: Select instructional methods, media, and materialsA. Methods: Guided instruction, scaffolding, and open ended question. Methods will be used throughout the lesson.B. Media and Materials: Computer, Internet, Pencil, and Paper.- Student will use the Computer for the following for the Internet and Excel program. The Internet will be used to gather information on calories that are different from each fast food restaurant. The student will use Excel spreadsheet to generate data such as median, mode, and average of a value meal.- The students will use paper to document the information gathered from the internet. Utilize Methods, Media, & MaterialsA. Preview Materials - Teacher must make sure that the computers and programs (Excel and Internet) are working properly.- Teacher must make sure the site chosen that students will be gathering information from is safe and appropriate. B. Prepare Materials: - The teacher will inform the students of the lesson a week before they begin.- The teacher will create the groups. Students will be grouped into six’s. Grouping will be based on the student's social skills. The moderate to socially high student will be group with little to the non social student.C. Prepare Environment: Desks will be arranged in groups of four. Laptop and projector will be in the center of the classroom with the theater screen on the board down. Other computers will be against the wall on one side of the room.D. Prepare Learners: - This lesson is a part of a one week unit.- The students will be informed of the lesson one week prior.- The students will be informed of the groupings. In their groups students will: o Decide a team leader, and all

group members will collect nutrients facts, brochures from the restaurants. o Create a table for the data collected.o Choose a restaurant to compare their data to.Require Learner Participation - Review rules and procedures of the Interneto Students will practice inputting their data on Excel. - Day for presentationo Before presentation, students must prepare what they are going to present such as: Data collected from the researching online. - Students will give examples of the similarities and/or differences of the value meals of the six different restaurants. E. Provide the learning Experience: - The teacher will provide open ended questions to generate prior knowledge and stimulate critical thinking. V: Require learner participation A) Practice: Allow the students to get acquainted with the instructional materials;-Using the overhead projector, the instructor will demonstrate how to input data into the spreadsheet, make a graph, and/or change color of the graph, etc... B) Do: Small-group activities- The students will need to work together to plan, gather data, discuss and/or input data into a spreadsheet.- The students will utilize the computer to conduct their research. Encourage students to compare the calories differences and similarities they have find from other six different restaurants. C)Feedback: Presentation- The students will record their own thoughts, feelings, and conclusion about the activities.- The students can form a debate about the differences and similarities they have found. -Ask questions/provide feedback.Evaluate and Revise A) Assessment of learner achievement: Students will be assessed based on the artifacts produced during the week leading up to the presentation. They will meet the objectives by the teacher evaluating their performance based on the spreadsheets produced and the presentation. B) Evaluation of media and methods: Evaluating the computers as our choice of media depends on whether the computers have any fluctuations or power outages which will disrupt the completion of the lesson. C) Evaluation of instructor/instruction: The teacher's evaluation will be based on the preparation of the lesson as well as providing “Plan B(s)” should the media fail. E) Revise: The revision to this lesson plan will be produced by the teacher which will include an alternate media or tool should the teacher encounter technical difficulties. Source for calories: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/health/caloriecounter/caloriecounter.html