Cooperative+Learning+-+Marzano

Click on the following link to see how I might use one of Marzano's Nine Strategies. [|Cooperative Learning - Marzano] and the What Works Template The following lesson plan will show you how I plan to use cooperative learning in one of my health classes.

Teacher: Ryan Johnson Grade Level: 10th-12th Course: Current Health Issues Name of Lesson: "Effects of Tobacco on the Body"

Introduction: I will begin the lesson by posing two questions to the class to think about while I take attendance. The first question that I will ask the students is "What are the short-term effects of tobacco products on the body?" The second question will be "What are the long-term effects of tobacco on the body?" After a few minutes, I will divide the class into small cooperative groups to answer the two questions.

Activity: After the students have been broken into their groups, I will give them the link for the Mind42 application [|Short-term Effects and Long-term Effects]. The students will create the two applications to check their current knowledge and understanding about what they currently know about the effects of tobacco products on the body. Creating both of these applications should not take up a large amount of time because they are being used before the main information of the unit is taught. Once each of the groups have finished creating their applications, they will save each. At the end of the unit, they will complete the same project, except they will hopefully have learned quite a bit by then and will have much better developed applications and demonstrate better knowledge and understanding.

Wrap-up: The two questions that were asked to provoke the thinking that went into the activity, will also lead the reasearch that is later done in this unit. The students will eventually be reasearching the two questions and finding out many more short-term and long-term effects that tobacco has on the body. Most students will begin by searching just for smoking and will not even think about the other forms of tobacco, like chewing tobacco and pipe tobacco. It will be important to make the students aware of the other forms of tobacco also.