Submitted by Ximena Rayo

Objectives:

Content:
Students will...

• demonstrate knowledge on the health topic of how the heart functions and how target heart rate relate to the well being of an individual.

 

Cultural:
Students will...

• compare knowledge of how the Spanish world views the topics related to healthy heart, target heart rate, and exercise with what they have learned about US views.

Language: Content Obligatory
Students will...

• Vocabulary: Corazón, rítmo cardiaco, frecuencia cardiaca, ejercicio, descanso,
• Expressions for cause and effect: A causa de,  Si ___ tendrás, Necesitas hacer ___ para ...
• Future tense of verbs (all in second person): tendrás, poseerás, adelgazarás, engordarás,

Language: Content Compatible
 

Learning Strategies / Social and Skills Development:
Students will...

• Accurately use accents in the computer with an English keyboard
• Accurate use of capital letters as needed in the essay.  
• Effective use resources
• Summarizing and classifying the most relevant information
• Asking questions to their team members to clarify any questions
• Self-evaluation with a rubric
• Cooperative participation during a group project
• active listening when sharing their information
• respectfully give feedback to their peers
• demonstrate their knowledge about word processing documents,
• add a graph to the essay.

Time Frame:

This lesson will take initially 5 sessions of 50 minutes each.

Materials Needed:

• Access to the WebQuest (see resources below).
• Use Inspiration or paper and pencil to write their main ideas in a concept web.
• Spreadsheet document to enter their information (see Resources).

Description of Assessment (Performance Project):

1. Students will work in groups of three. They will have to collaborate to research the information and develop the end product. They will have an opportunity to work individually initially, then they will move into working in their groups to share their information and decide what information should be included in their Essay.

2 . Students will spend the first two class periods researching information related to how the heart works while exercising and resting (see links on the webpage). Answer the question: What is "Target Heart Rate"?

3. During session three, students will work as a class on the practical piece of pulse, and heart rate during exercise.

4. Then they will meet with their team members and share their information and decide what should be included in their essay.

5. After the sharing session, they will start working on the creation of the essay, spreadsheet, graph and adding the graph to the essay.

Requirements for the essay (to be given to students in advance:
1. The essay should have a least five paragraphs or ideas (introduction, content, conclusion)
2. The essay will include the graph with information about target heart rate
3. Any extra images taken from the Internet must be accompanied by the name of the site, the organization and or individual who displayed it and the URL (Universal Resource Locator)
4. Persuasive content will be used to encourage healthy heart habits.

Assessment:

1. At the end of each session where students share in their group, they will fill out the collaborative work checklist.

2. At the end of the fourth session students will turn in a rough draft of their essay for teacher feedback.

3. At the end of the fifth session students will evaluate themselves using the rubric for the lesson.

4. After step 3, the teacher will use the same rubric in a review session with each student where the student will explain their evaluation process.

References and Resources:

Todo sobre el corazón: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/en_espanol/heart_esp.html

Ritmo Cardiaco Irregular:
http://www.drrath.com/mr-publishing-internet/cellular/arythmia/esp/

 Frecuencia cardiaca para el ejercicio: http://www.portalfitness.com/actividad_fisica/cardiovascular/fc_optima.htm

Calcule su frecuencia Cardiaca ideal:
http://mimedico.net/dir-servicios/calc_fcardiaca.htm 

Attachments:

NOTE: some attachments are in PDF form (get Acrobat Reader)

1. WebQuest: Misión.html
2. Rubric: Rubrica.html
3. 1cooperative.rtf
4. 1TarHeRa.xcl
5. 1web.jpg

A Lesson from the CoBaLTT Project
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Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
University of Minnesota