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- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students become familiar with the skeletal and muscular body systems and discuss ways to keep them healthy. They explore balanced diets and develop a personal fitness plan. They research various health services and careers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 12th
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Students examine hunger issues within their own community. They identify what animals need to survive, construct a paper body collage presenting junk food and healthy food, create a hunger quilt, and identify ways to help food banks in their area. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students develop nutrition pamphlets to create an awareness of the nutritional needs of their bodies and explore strategies for making wise nutrition choices for healthful living. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students use the interent to gather information about healthy eating habits. They create a drawing of the food pyramid and their own five-day menu using all of the food groups. They compare and contrast the nutritional information of fast food meals as well. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the different food groups on the food pyramid. In groups, they discover the proper amount to eat from each food group and how to prepare healthy meals. They keep a food journal and calculate the amount of calories they take in taking into account the amount of physical activity they receive in a day. To end the lesson, they discuss whether being a vegetarian is healther than not. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students explore the importance of exercise, nutrition, and stress management for their overall health. They develop a PowerPoint presentation to share with their classmates. Students research each area and add their own creative ideas in trying to help inform their audience on the importance of healthy living. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students are introduced to how the digestive system works in their body. In groups, they discover they need energy and water to live a healthy life. They discover how the body repairs itself and how it grows. They also examine how undigested food is discarded. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students create a brochure or poster focusing on how to protect your skin when participating in sports. Prior to the lesson, students recall the importance of skin, and its properties. Then they work in groups to read about protecting their skin while participating in a given sport. After all the groups have shared, students create a visual aid covering the potential risks to healthy skin during a sport that wasn't discussed, as well as ways to avoid these risks. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 12th
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Students read and discuss a news article about an agreement that will eliminate soda and sugary drinks from most schools. They answer comprehension questions, organize a list of foods in order of fewest calories to the most, discuss and analyze physical activities, and write a journal entry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students write or draw their favorite beverage on the card. They discuss the nutritional value of all of the chosen beverages with the class and identify that since our bodies are mostly made of water, we function best when we drink plenty of water. Finally, students run in place by their desks and identify the difference between water, soft drinks, and sport drinks. Full Review »
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