One Health For Everyone Lesson Plan for 5th Grade Example Students

Topic: One Health for Everyone

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will understand how humans, animals, and the environment are interconnected and how each can affect the health of each.
• Students will be able to identify key factors that promote health and identify those that threaten health.

Materials

• Copies of the worksheets "One Health for Everyone: Interconnections" and "One Health for Everyone: Health Threats" for each student
• Handouts showing examples of humans interacting with animals and the environment (e.g. photos, news articles)
• Whiteboard and markers

Warm-up

• Begin the lesson by asking students to think about a time when they were sick. How did they get better? What helped them get better?

- Did they take medicine, did they go to the doctor, did the doctor give you medicine, were you quarantined/isolated?

• Then, ask students to think about a time when an animal was sick. How did it get better? What helped it get better?

-Did they go to the vet, did they get medicine?

• Finally, ask students to think about a time when the environment was sick. How did it get better? What helped it get better?

- Natural events like floods, fires, storms, or tornados. Human made events like oil spills or chemical spills.

• Explain that all three of these are examples of One Health, the concept that humans, animals, and the environment are all interconnected and can affect each other's health.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of One Health and explain that it means that humans, animals, and the environment are all connected and can affect each other's health.

- Everything has its own health, and everything can get sick. If one chicken gets sick then it can spread it to other chickens, affecting the health of the entire population. Additionally, a sick chicken can get you sick, too! Then, we have animals affecting human health.

-Humans so easily affect the health of animals! Such as through the spread of infectious agents, or pathogens. Chytrid Fungus, spread through natural means but also aided significantly through human interactions like the illegal pet trade.

- The environment can affect human and animal health as well. For example, extreme weather events or disasters like wildfires can lead to poor health effects for humans and animals. Like when there are wildfires, there's a bunch of smoke in the air and it's dangerous to breath it in.

• Discuss the examples of Health that students came up with and how they are all examples of how humans, animals, and the environment can tie into One Health.
• Provide examples of how humans, animals, and the environment can affect each other's health. For example, humans can spread diseases to animals, animals can spread diseases to humans, and the environment can affect the health of both humans and animals (e.g. extreme weather can make it harder for people and animals to get food and shelter).

Guided Practice

• Have students work in small groups and provide them with a worksheet with examples of how humans, animals, and the environment can affect each other's health.

- Give examples of One Health

• Have students look through the examples and discuss how each example affects the health of humans, animals, and the environment.

- Have students discuss these examples

• Have students come up with their own examples of how humans, animals, and the environment can affect each other's health and share with the class.

- Have students come up with their own examples

Independent Practice

• Have students choose one of the examples from the guided practice activity and create a project that shows how the example affects the health of humans, animals, and the environment.
• Project ideas could include a poster, presentation, or skit.

- Have them do a skit!

Closure

• Review the key points of the lesson, emphasizing the interconnectedness of humans, animals, and the environment and the importance of one health for all.
• Ask students to share their project ideas and perhaps present their projects to the class.

Assessment

• Assess student learning through observation of their participation in the group activity and their ability to explain the importance of one health and how it relates to humans, animals, and the environment.
• Review the projects and presentations for understanding of the concept of one health and the ability to apply it in a real-world context.