LESSON PLAN Lesson 1 of 2 Band/Year: 2

Focus Feeling healthy: Feeling Good : Sleeping, sleeping, we know we should

Curriculum
Outcomes
Sleep and the benefits for health and learning; Decision making; Maths
Content Teaching points Activity/Class Organisation:


Introduction
9.00am

To

9.03am







START THE CLASS BY:
*acting very sleepy; yawning;
tired
*students may ask why the
teacher is behaving that way.
Teacher may explain he/she cant
concentrate or learn as they
didnt get enough
sleep.leading into the topic
Advise students that the task
today will be:
1. to learn, and discuss why
sleep is important for our
bodies;
2. to know how much sleep we
need;
3. Reasons why not enough
sleep is bad
4. Reasons why enough sleep
is good
Advise students we will:
a. read a story together
b. writing about some of the
things students do before
they go to bed
c. a sleep diary

READ STORY
1. Students seated quietly
on the floor
2. Student requirements
before starting:
a. Sitting quietly on
floor legs crossed
hands in lap



b. Eyes looking at me
c. Ears listening to
me
d. No calling out or
talking unless I ask
a question
e. If I ask a question,
raise your hand
and wait for me so
say your name
f. Respect-teachers,
yourself, and your
classmates


Body

9.03am

To

9.08am

Question time:
1. Ask students how many
hours sleep they think they
need? Times can be
written on board or paper.
(Answer given later)

2. What time did some students
go to bed?

3. What time did some students
get up?







Use white board to
identify bed/awake
times of some students.



Body (cont.)
9.08am

To

9.30am





























DISCUSSION & QUESTIONS:
1. What is adequate sleep and how many hours should you have?
children aged between 5-12 years need each night. (Answer: 10-11 hours).
General discussion on students thoughts

How do you feel in the morning when you HAVE HAD a good nights sleep?
Some positives of a good nights sleep
General discussion on students thoughts to cover the following:
*Helps in our relationships with others
*For growth and muscles--sleep strengthens and renews and repairs our body- like the
cells
*Our body and brain re-energises while we sleep
*Sleep, or lack of sleep affects nearly every part of our body including our brain
*To remain healthy
*Your body needs good food-the right amounts of food-exercise-and plenty of rest.
*Think about everything you are doing during one day.
*Helps students pay attention at school; think and solve problems
*Helps students think of new ideas, and helps us to be smart
*Fights sickness
*Helps with moods and good feelings
*Helps people get along better with others

How do you feel in the morning if you DONT have a good nights sleep?
General discussion on students thoughts
Some negatives of not having adequate sleep
*Forgetting things
*Hard to make choices/decisions
*Affects moods grumpy, bad mood
*Trouble playing; listening to the teacher and parents
1. What things make it hard for you to go to sleep?
*Too much activity close to bedtime such as (ask students what they might think)
*Coffee/cool drinks before bed
*Eating wrong foods/too much before bed
*Not having enough quiet/relaxation time before bed
2. What makes us tired at the end of the day?
*Our body produces a lot of different hormones-one called Melatonin controls what is























known as our Circadian rhythm (See if students know what this is before discussion)
It students dont know.. explain: an internal body clock that controls our biological
processes.
*Explain that we sleep in cycles,
*Ask if anyone knows how many stages our sleep happens in

Stage 1 Our brain tells our muscles to relax, which allows our heart to slow down
and our temperature to drop
Stage 2 - Our body goes into a light sleep it is easy to be woken up in this stage by
noises
Stage 3 Our body is in a deep sleep state harder to be woken up-some people
might sleep walk when they are in this stage
Stage 4 Our body is in an even deeper sleep state again hard to be woken up. If we
are, we might be confused for a while
Stage 5 R.E.M. (See if students know that this stands for.) If yes see if they
know what it means. If no- explain Rapid Eye Movement. Its the stage when we
dream and our eyes move even though we are asleep. See if students have a pet that
they have seen sleeping and twitching or dreaming, or a baby brother or sister they
have seen.
The sleep cycle is repeated 5 or 6 times during the night.

BRIEF BRAINSTORM: Using the board, write a list of tasks students do after
they first get up in the morning
*Go to school
*Learn and play, every day
*After school- outside play; sports; chores

Once all these things are done, at the end of the day, the average body is tired and
ready to have a rest, so it can do it all again the next day.
All living things need sleep to be healthy.

A bit like a car battery running low put it on charge for a while, and it gives the
battery a new lease on life, ready to go further the next day.

So if they get up at 7am each morning, they really need to be asleep by 8-9pm at night.

Discuss ways students can prepare for a good nights sleep. Some ideas include:
*Bedtime routine going to bed at the same time-getting up at the same time
*Comfortable, dark, quite, cool bedroom
*Regular exercise, but not 6 hours before bedtime
*No coffee; unhealthy foods or other drinks before going to bed

PROCEDURAL WRITING:
Students return to their desks and write 5 sentences about what they do before they go
to bed, and then they need to draw their bedroom.

Give students a handout
Closure
9.30am

To

9.45am


HOMEWORK 1 EXERCISE:
Number 1: SLEEP DIARY done over the week (See example on next
page)

1. Have students colour the time they went to bed and the time they
woke up on the sleep diary.
2. Ask the students to circle Y if they were tired or N if they were not
tired when they woke up. (Have one for each day of the week, to be
filled out and brought back to the next lesson as per example
illustrate this is what my diary was like for Monday)
MONDAY
7.30pm
8.00pm
8.30pm
9.00pm
9.30pm
10.00pm
10.30pm
11.00pm
11.30pm
12.00am
12.30am
1.00am
1.30am
2.00am
2.30am
3.00am
3.30am
4.00am
4.30am
5.00am
5.30am
6.00am
6.30am
7.00am
7.30am
8.00am



8.30am
9.00am
9.30am
10.00am
I SLEPT
7
HOURS
I FELT:
Tired Y N
Not Tired Y N












Time