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What Does Being Healthy Mean? How Can We Promote Healthy Lifestyles?
Learners examine the main food groups. They examine their lifestyles and examine ways to promote healthier lifestyles in young people in order to present a Healthy Living Week.
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Culture Collage
Students investigate their cultural heritage and make observations on how much influence their past has on their current values and lifestyle. They brainstorm a list of things that represent a certain country or cultural heritage and...
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Active Lifestyle Challenge
Students, in groups, choose from a list of alternatives for recreational activities, transportation options, nutritional choices and other opportunities people have in their lives to make decisions which either benefits or has a negative...
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Fast Fats: A Nutritional Analysis of America's Obsession with Fast Foods
How do you read a nutritional label? Help high schoolers practice reading nutritional labels on foods so they can calculate the calories in different types of foods. They will also examine the effects of fat on the body and the link to...
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Graphing a Healthy Lifestyle
Fifth graders record the amount of time they spend sleeping, attending school, watching T.V., exercising and doing homework. At the end of the week they graph all of their information and discuss how sleep impacts their learning....
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Smart Snacking Ideas
Educate parents on obesity prevention using these discussion points, specifically geared toward families of preschoolers. You will need to add to this, as it is mostly an outline of topics and objectives. Concepts include healthy...
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Are You Balanced?
Balance scales create a strong visual of how an individual prioritizes one's self alongside their commitments to the community, school, and home. Scholars complete a graphic organizer then discuss their findings with their peers. A...
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Keeping Kids Active
Students discover the benefits of an active lifestyle and ways to keep healthy in order to gain understanding of the importance of a physical activity. In this health lesson, students talk with their peers about types of activities that...
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Children's Health on the Decline
Demonstrate the importance of children's health with this cross-curricular lesson, which includes elements from health and science as well as expository writing. Middle schoolers develop realistic and obtainable one week health and...
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Nutrition and the Elderly
Study the nutrition of elderly people and how it helps them to remain independent and healthy. Learners investigative the nutrition concerns of the elderly. MyPlate, vitamine requirements and sensory changes in the elderly are...
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Physical Fitness
Students compare sedentary lifestyles to active lifestyles. In this health activity, students discuss the implications of different kinds of lifestyles, complete a worksheet, then participate in a physical activity.
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Your Genes: Your Future
Learners examine different healthy behaviors and choose one of their own that they would like to change or improve. In this healthy lesson students write a letter to themselves that they are going to make a change and why it is...
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All Star Fitness
Students examine the principles of living a healthy life and establish their own goals that will lead to a healthier lifestyle. In this fitness activity students keep records of their goals.
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Blue Zones: Out with the old and in with the new
Seventh graders read articles about the Blue Zones, life expectancy and healthy and unhealthy habits of people around the world. In this Current Events lesson, 7th graders participate in class discussion of key terms and concepts...
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Comparing the Health and Lifestyles of 13 Year-olds Around the World.
Eighth graders examine international data and statistics to evaluate the health and trends of 13 year old students around the world.
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Cardiac Hill
Students calculate pulse rates to determine level of exertion. In this human body instructional activity, students hike up a hill or steep slope and take their pulse. Students observe their breathing and energy level then record data.
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Eating Under the Rainbow
Students investigate the lure of snack-food advertisements to explain how snacks can fit into a healthy diet.
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Mathematics & Nutrition
Students apply math to calculate fat and calories in the food they eat. They examine food package information to become aware of the ingredients and to learn about healthy life styles. They work in groups to create crazy meals using the...
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Formula for Fitness
Many youngsters don't understand that fitness is a life-long endeavor, and that it really pays off to be healthy. Use a spreadsheet to document progress in a fitness plan to see if there really in a benefit to running and exercise. Adapt...
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Chew on This: Worksheets 1 - 5
In this fast food instructional activity, students answer 21 questions pertaining to the fast food industry. It appears as though they should read the Chew on This article, but it is not included in this packet. This packet contains...
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Building Blocks for a Healthy Body
Students watch a video and discuss the benefits of regular exercise. They use books, Internet sites and interviews with health professionals to develop a list of activities to develop physical fitness.
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Happy Feet=Healthy Body
Fourth graders discuss the benefits of regular exercise. In this physical health studies lesson, 4th graders create visual demonstrations to track their progress with physical fitness related goals. Students discuss various types of...
Healthy Native Youth
Chapter 1: Circle of Life
Volition, or will-power, is the focus of a lesson that brings forth the Native symbol, the Circle of Life, to instill the importance of responsible decision-making. Scholars take part in six activities that empower them to reflect on...
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Health
Young scholars comprehend that a balanced diet help them to stay healthy. They discuss the importance of exercise to stay healthy. Students identify healthy and unhealthy lifestyle choices.