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Revised Lesson Plan

Megan Lee
EDU417: Cognitive Studies Capstone
Instructor: Ciara Smack
August 4, 2014
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Dream On
Subject: Science
Theme: Recharge
Grades: 5
th
grade
Lesson Overview:
Students will learn how sleep affects the brain. They will then analyze an article on sleep
zones and determine the changes they can make to their sleep zones at home to improve
their sleep. Students will then implement the appropriate changes at home and analyze
how the changes affect the quality of their sleep on a qualitative level.
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to:
Identify the negative consequences of not getting appropriate sleep
Design the perfect sleep zone for themselves
Implement sleep zone changes at home and record and analyze results
Suggested Time:
This lesson would require a 45 minutes lesson to learn about the importance of sleep and
then design changes to their sleep zone, then the students will implement the changes for
2 weeks and then another 45 minute session will be needed to go over the results.
This lesson requires one 45-minute session for students to learn about the importance
of sleep and design changes to their sleep zone. After students to implement changes for
2 -3 weeks, another 30 to 45 - minute session is recommended to review results.
Classroom Activities:
Engage
1.Show students a picture of a brain and a picture of someone who is sleeping. Ask
students how they think the two pictures might be related. After several suggestions,
explain to students that sleep affects our brains. Students might be surprised to learn that
when we sleep, both our bodies and our brains remain active.
2. Pair the students up into groups and ask them some questions about their sleep?
What time do you go to bed and wake up?
How many hours of sleep do you think you should get?
Do you think you are getting enough sleep?Pose the following questions to
students and provide time for them to brainstorm and then discuss their answers.
What time do you usually go to bed? Awaken?
How many hours of sleep do you get a night on average?
Do you think youre getting enough sleep?
3. Divide students into small groups and have them
read the article Your Head-to-Toe Guide to Sleep.
Students should take notes about how sleep affects the body and the brain. Ask students
to pay particular attention to all that goes on while they are sleeping.Have the children
find an article of how the lack of sleep affects their brain
4. Ask students to share their findings in their groups and then share out to the entire class
the one piece of information they found most interesting or surprising, have the children
repeat the information their classmates are giving them and then write it down and ask
any other questions they may have..
Ensure that students understand that the brain needs not just sleep but good sleep in order
to perform its functions correctly.
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5.Explain to students that they are going to carry out an experiment to attempt to improve
their sleep.
Explore
1.Have students read anthe article What's Sleep Got to Do With Weightabout the
negative affects that little sleep can have on a persons weight?
2.Ask students to discuss negative things that happen to people when they dont get good
sleep. Ask how this new information relates to what they learned from the first article.
3.Ensure that students understand that getting poor or insufficient sleep affects both the
mind and body. Ask the children randomly to name a fact that they learned about how
lack of sleep can negatively affect them.
4.Pose the following questions and give students a few minutes to brainstorm and write
down their answers. Describe what your bedroom or the place where you sleep looks like.
Do you think the place where you sleep is affecting how well you sleep? Why or why
not?
5.Hand out blank paper and have students draw the area where they sleep every night,
then have the students share them with their group members. .
6.Have students read the article Make the Perfect Sleep Zone.find and article describing
the perfect sleep zone Have students compare their picture of their own sleep zone to
what the article describes as the perfect sleepperfect sleep zone. What is similar? What is
different that they could improve upon? Have the students share either within their group
or in the class
7.Encourage students to create a list of potential changes to their sleep zones. They
should organize the items on their list into two categories: changes that cost money
and changes that cost nothing.
8. Have students create plans to improve their own sleep zones based on what they
learned from the article.
Once students have brainstormed the elements of a perfect sleep zone, they can use
Kerpoof or another free Web-based authoring tool to design their ideal sleep zones.
9. Have the children share with the class what one change they care to make to their room
and then aAsk the sk students to go home and make at least one significant change to
their sleep zone. Encourage them to initiate the changes with ones that cost nothing,
because these changes can be made immediate. They should talk to their parents about
changes they want to make that require an investment
10. Once students have made the change(s), have them start collecting data on a chart
resembling the following:
Day Sleep
Time
Awake
Time
Hours
Slept
How did you feel
upon awakening?
How did you
feel throughout
the day?


11. Students should collect data for 1-2 weeksweeks; make sure that they keep a record
log every day in order to get correct data. .
Explain
1. Place students into groups and have them compare their data to that of other students.
What is the average number of hours asleep in their groups? Do they see any connections
between the amount of sleepof sleep and how they and their classmates felt upon waking
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and throughout the day? What can they conclude about the relationship between sleep
and how our bodies and minds feel when were awake?
2.Have students discuss the changes they made to their sleep zones and which ones
seemed to have the most positive impact.
3.Reinforce that students need at least 10 hours of good sleep each night to be at their
healthiest. Having the appropriate sleep zone can improve sleep and guard against the
negative consequences associated with poor sleep.
Elaborate
1.Students can extend the experiment by making additional changes to their sleep zones
and/or recording data for additional weeks, including prior to making changes to their
sleep zones. If a child makes additional changes make sure that they write down when
and what changes they made.
2. Students can analyze all the sleep zones within their own houses and use the articles to
suggest changes to improve parents and siblings sleep zones and sleep experiences.
Students can then report back to the class about any observed differences improved
sleeping zones have made in the household.Students can use the information that they
have learned to help teach their siblings or family members to have a better sleep
environment, and then perhaps have the family member keep track of their own sleep
chart.
Evaluate
1. Ask students to reflect on any differences they noticed in how well they slept before
and after their sleep zone changes.
2. Have students answer the following questions and support their claims with evidence:
How many hours of sleep do you need each night?
Identify three negative consequences associated with poor sleep.
What kind of colors should you have in your room to improve your sleep
and why?
What parts of your sleep zone were in need of improvement and how did
you change them?
3.Have children share with the classroom or their group their answers, this way,
other children can compare their answers and get a feel of other peoples perspective.

Accommodations

1. This lesson plan is a lesson plan that should be able to accommodate anyone. If a
child does have some special needs perhaps a child can use a computer to keep
track of there sleeping chart or have a parent help them.
2. If a child has seeing issues, they could have someone describe to them what their
room looks like and then they could draw it.







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I really liked this lesson plan, and felt like it already had a lot of good steps in
order to complete this lesson plan. I added a lot more of students sharing with each other,
versus just thinking of the answers to questions amongst themselves. I felt that this allows
the children to verbally go over the information. Then having the children repeat
information that was just given to them helps with repetition and to help remember the
information. Then later having the children say a random fact that they learned helps
them recall the previous mentioned information.
I had the children find different articles for the subject matter; I felt this gave
them their own independence into looking for information. I also liked the idea of using
visual information with technology to help the children understand the information.
Then having the children relay information that they learned from the previous
classes to their siblings, and then they can see if different sleep environments can help
other people sleep better.
As stated in the lesson plan, accommodations to children with special needs can
be done easily. Depending on what the type of disability is, modifications can be made. If
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the child is blind, then the parents can describe the childs room for them and they can
draw it. If the child the child has problems with writing then perhaps a computer would
be easier for them to use in order to do this lesson plan.










References

Discovery Education. (n.d.). Lesson plan library. Retrieved from
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plan






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