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Health Lesson Plan Core Curriculum Standards: Health 9th Grade Standard 3: Students determine how knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors contribute to healthy relationships with self and others Objective 2: Identify skills necessary for healthy relationships; e.g., communication, listening, goal-setting.

Give the students this test in following Directions to grab their attention. Watch a funny video clip on following directions.
 * Step 1: Engagement. What are you going to do to Engage? How does the engagement idea or concept relate to the exploration?**


 * Step 2: Exploration. What are the main concepts to be investigated? Will data be collected? Will data be collected using some kind of instrument?**

Can you tell me how to draw this? Pair up students. One student will draw. The other one will give directions. The student that is drawing will not face the screen. The student that is giving directions will face the screen. They will switch places for drawing #2 Drawing #1: Drawing #2:

What can you do to become a better listener? What are skills essential to great communication?
 * Step 3: Explanation. What are your guiding discussion questions? Which level of Blooms taxonomy? Are you able to scaffold students’ questions to encourage deeper thinking? Examples: “Can you tell me more?” “Do you agree with Johnny?” “Can you give me an example?” Who disagrees? Why?” “We learned such and such, did we see any exceptions to this observation?**


 * Step 4: Elaboration. Are there at least two examples/questions related to Concept elaboration? Does the elaboration relate new knowledge to another discipline?**


 * Step 5: Evaluation. Name your evaluation type. (Mini 4 item quiz, 30 word summary, concept map, Foggiest Thought, You can create a name or a new evaluation if you want.) Is your evaluation convenient to grade? Does it only take up 3 minutes of class time? Does the evaluation get to the essence of the lesson, the big ideas? Will it allow you to detect student’s misconceptions? Do you have an affective assessment on your evaluation?**

The students will take a listening test to determine their individual listening skills.