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**Topic:** Healthy Heart. **Year Level:** 8 **Subject:** Health and Science

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[|Curriculum]

Over the next six weeks your students will be working within groups of 3-4 they will be researching and creating a power point presentation on the 3 aspects of the task that are shown below.Once your students have created a power point with a substantial amount of information. They are to create a [|Facebook] page detailing their findings and provide the allocated group of your choosing the link to this Facebook page. Students will then peer review their given group and provided them with feedback on how to improve their presentation. Students will then present their power point presentation to the class for assessment.

You will be focusing on teaching students the following three aspects:
 * How does unhealthy eating affect the heart?
 * How does exercise improve your hearts health?
 * Why is it important to keep your heart healthy?

__A suggested lesson progression for the six weeks with each lesson being approximately sixty minutes. __


 * Week one: Introduce students to the seven week program. **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Allocate students into groups of 3 or 4.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Allow students discuss prior knowledge and ideas
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Discuss these ideas as a whole class and provide students with examples of similar tasks and provide some suggested websites that may support students with their research.


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Week two: Research. **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Recap on the previous lesson
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">provide students with access to the internet and library resources so that they can gain information on the three aspects provided above.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monitor students progress with the task and provide guidance when needed.


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Week Three: Creating a Facebook Page **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Show students a video on how to create a Facebook page - the following link may be used: How to create a Facebook page
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Students are to create their Facebook page


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Week Four: Creating a Power point **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Allow students time to allocate roles within the group, these roles should be coordinator, researcher, writer and speaker these roles are outlined in more description below. It must be noted that students have the responsibility to understand their roles requirements and act accordingly.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Coordinator: Shows the relationships between ideas/ Shifts the direction of the group's discussion.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Researcher: Coordinates the groups research and resource materials.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Writer: Records all relevant information and places information on[| Facebook] page as well as PowerPoint presentation at the end.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Speaker: Discusses with the class there information found on the heart. Narrates power point.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Students should also be reminded that they still need to collaborate and show different view points in their presentation.


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Week five: Compiling **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Students must now create their groups [|Facebook] page.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Support students by asking them questions related to the task that they can help answer on the Facebook page such as The information presented must be clear and accurate. Students must remember that they will be providing the link to their Facebook page to their peers for a peer review.
 * How does exercise benefit the heart?
 * why it is important to keep your heart healthy?


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Week six: Facebook review. **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">By now students should have finished their Facebook pages and be putting the final points on their power points.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Points should emphasis aspect of the task such as how unhealthy eating effects the heart, how exercise can benefit your heart and why it is important to keep your heart healthy.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Students must remember to include their [|Facebook] page links at the end of their presentations for peer review.


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Week seven: Assessing. **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Students will present their power point and will be evaluated and assessed.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Each group will hand in a copy of their peer review of another groups Facebook page.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">students will be marked on the following points given
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How does unhealthy eating affect the heart
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How does exercise improve your hearts health
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Why is it important to keep your heart healthy

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 25px;">Useful Information <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|www.facebook.com/superhealthykids] - This facebook page is a small example of what students will create with their resourced information.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=104002523024878&ref_query=how+to+create+a+page+]- This is a helpful page on how to create a Facebook page for students heart information.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Heart Healthy Living: A helpful [|YouTube] video detailing the importance of a healthy heart.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|The Heart Foundation] website is extremely useful as it provides statistics and other important information that you as a teacher can use to support students the following image of the home page shows were to find the most helpful information regarding the task aspects and were statistic can be found are circled in blue. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Teachers without borders] can also help you create innovative lessons. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Power point (to access this website you need to sign into an account) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">