Target grades:

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   Time:

6th grades in primary school

1. Home economics (2 times ×1 class (45 minutes))
2. Tokkatsu (Classroom activity (2)) (1 class (45 minutes))
3. Morning and end of day meeting  (Daily reflection)
4. Students assembly (15 minutes)

Aims

Teaching materials and equipments

Implementation Procedure

Beforehand:
In home economics lesoon "Let's make things better in the morning", students relfected on their daily-life. Focusing on morning time, it became clear that there were issues with morning life time.

Beforehand:
Thus, a class teacher decided to take a lesson (classroom activity 2)  to improve these issues, in cooperation with a nutrition teacher as T.T., based on annual curriculum. For realizing students' status and using it as an evidence in the lesson, the class teacher conducted a questionnaire for the students about breakfast.

In the lesson, step 1 "Grasp":
The class teacher presented the results of the questionnaire, and guided the students to realize "how we/each of us take breakfast and how each of us think of it", then presented the objective of this lesson.

In the lesson step 2 "Search":
The students reflected on their own breakfast and thought about "how breakfast should be", referring to what the the nutrition teacher taught them.

In the lesson step 3 "Find":
The students discussed in groups about "how to power up breakfast and what specific things to do".

In the lesson step 4 "Decide":
Based on the discussion, each student made decisionsabout the goal that she/he think that she/he can achieve, then the students presented to each other the goal. After that, they were given some time to revise the goal by referring to their friends' goals, if necessary.
*Students wrote their goal in worksheet "personal goal card"

After the lesson:
The students practiced their goal at home and reflected daily, during one week. (*Students wrote their evaluation by themselves in the worksheet, daily.)
After the one week, they reviewed their practice/effort, and, if they want to modify the goal, they changed it to be feasible so that they could continue their practice.

After the lesson:
The parents/guardians wrote the comment/feedback for students in the worksheet. By collaborating with the parents/guardians, the students were motivated to continue on practicing it.

After the lesson:
Some students, belonging to the school lunch committee, spontabeously took the initiative in expanding their practices for other students, such as by holding quizzes and plays to encourage the other students to eat a balanced diet at students' assembly.

From the author

• This activity can be done at any grade level, but it needs to be developed in a different way, depending on the level of each grade .
• If a teacher can hold this lesson on parent's day, it is expected that the parents can support for students to practice at home. However, since the living conditions of each family are different, the teacher is required to considered well.

References

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