PBL My Healthy Project

The project that caught my attention the most was that of My Healthy Project. It was a project done by 1st Grade students on ways to keep their bodies healthy. During class the students shared their stories about how they keep their own bodies healthy. After stories were shared a bunch of questions emerged, for example Izzie said she jumps on a trampoline to keep her body healthy and some of the other students asked how jumping on a trampoline kept your body healthy. The class then invited a pediatrician who did a mock physical and the children took notes and observed the tools she used. A yoga instructor led yoga for the children and a massage therapist demonstrated ways to massage that helps your muscles and mind relax. The children also learned from a psychiatrist that feelings also affect their bodies. From these experts coming in, each child had questions and ideas that they wanted to explore. For example one student wanted to know what the normal body temperature was so they took the temperature of classmates. The results were shared through charts, surveys, and graphs. I like this because each person understands and reviews results differently. The students also learned about nutrition in their reading class, exercise, and the human body. For their homework they had to visit a grocery store with their parents and ended up learning how to read food labels, pricing, and packaging. An outcome of this project had a huge affect on the children and they were very conscious about packing healthy snacks and lunched and getting enough exercise.
The children had very little knowledge in the beginning about how to keep your body healthy. As a result of the project due to their research, the children discovered that there were many ways on how they can keep their bodies healthy. They analyzed and took data and as of a conclusion they tried to keep their own bodies healthy. I honestly feel that each area of Bloom's Taxonomy pyramid was touched on. Print Page in IE