Digital Lesson Plan

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January 9, 2012, Issue
What Can You Do

About Food Poisoning?

Explore cause and effect with our fantastic cross-genre lesson. Includes narrative nonfiction, video, and informational texts. Great for Common Core!

Featured Skill: Cause and Effect
What causes food poisoning? What are its effects on people and their communities?

Approximate time to complete lesson: three class periods

Summary:

Students will examine a range of document types, including a Scope nonfiction article, a questionnaire used by the Minnesota Department of Health, a poster, and a video, to identify the causes and effects of food poisoning. Students will then apply what they’ve learned by writing an essay about how they would respond to an outbreak of food poisoning at school.

Main objectives:
• to learn about the causes and effects of food poisoning
• to gather information and ideas from multiple texts and media types
• to participate in class discussion
• to write a reflective essay

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This digital lesson includes:
• Peanut Recall video
• digital version of “Delicious or Deadly” to project
• Enteric Disease Worksheet from the Minnesota Department of Health
• 5 Common Ways Germs Are Spread poster
• Scope worksheet “Watch and Think”
• Scope worksheet “Cause-and-Effect Chains” (Version 1 has more scaffolding; Version 2 has less)
• contest-entry form (optional)

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