Write the given assignment in maximum of 2-3 pages.

Part 1 Brainstorm an Initial Idea for Teaching and Learning to Address the Scenario:

Situation: You are a new teacher teaching in a low-income school district. Many of your students and their families are receiving services such at Medicaid, food stamps, and are involved in subsidized programs, such as, free school breakfasts. In talking with your students you learn that many of them do not have basic knowledge about nutrition, where food comes from or how to go about buying or preparing healthy food. You also learn that many of your students are quite sedentary; a few are even diabetic. The health situation of these children you care about is truly dire! What can you do to not only teach but also empower your students, their families, and their community for long-term change in the way they eat, exercises, and cook? You're only one health teacher with limited resources, and at the moment, no extra funding.

But you are not discouraged because education is empowering! You want to create a lesson plan or program to meet some of the standards set forth in your textbook (pages 175, 178, and 182). You want to create a lesson plan or program to raise awareness and build solid health skills and knowledge -- but you also know you cannot do this alone. You cannot do it all without funding, and more importantly, without the support of school staff, parents, and other community leaders (page 176-177). You also know there will health and safety concerns which may have to be addressed -- what might these be?

For this first part of the DB, brainstorm out your best idea(s) for how to solve and address the challenges described in the scenario above.

1. Create a learning goal statement to address all of the following: healthy nutrition, preparing food, exercise. (1-3 sentences -- keep it brief). The learning goal should describe what students will be able to know, do, and understand at the end of the learning program. The statement should also include a brief statement saying how this learning goal meets health education standards.

2. Describe how you will know if the goal(s) of your learning statement has been met. In other words, how will the learning be assessed? How will you know if the students actually can do, know or understand what you wanted them accomplish?

3. Describe how you would create a program -- with no budget -- to achieve the learning goal, AND how you would involve parents, school staff, and other members of the community to contribute to or be a part of this program.

4. List a minimum of 3 concerns which might be raised by either parents or school staff regarding your plan, and how you would address these 3 concerns.