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Health and Growth
Learners recognize that living things need food and water. In this health and growth lesson, students identify foods that are better for health and growth. Learners sing a song and complete a worksheet. Students understand that...
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Health (General Wellness)
Seventh graders explore their personal health by completing a worksheet. In this healthy living lesson plan, 7th graders examine the health triangle and research ways to prevent at risk behavior. Students complete a health survey based...
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Making Healthy Food Choices
In this well-designed nutritional activity, students are given the opportunity to create their own daily food record, compare their nutrient with minimimun requirements, and think critically about their own food choices. Materials and...
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Dietary Rules
Healthy eating habits is the focus of this resource. Learners discuss fat and cholesterol, caloric needs, and the importance of exercise. There is a worksheet and a handout of dietary guidelines to supplement the information provided.
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Missing Vegetable Vowels
Kids are always being told to eat their vegetables, but this time you can tell them to spell their vegetables! Kids fill in the vowels to spell 14 different vegetables ranging from lettuce to radish.
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Healthy Eating
Students, in groups, create a nutritious menu, using information gathered from newspapers and Palm software. They decorate paper plates with pictures of foods to represent nutritional meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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How to Stay Healthy in College
Students plan ways to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle while in college. They keep a food log and cooperate as peer editors to make food choice suggestions for healthier eating. Students also consider the role of exercise in...
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What Happens to Our Bodies When We Get Sick?
Seventh graders explore ways in which they become sick. They find out ways that there bodies fight off bacteria. Students watch a video from the Magic School Bus series:"Inside Raphie." After reviewing video students can openly discuss...
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Your Genes: Your Future
Middle schoolers 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...
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How Much Nutritional Value Does Rice Really Have?
Fifth graders see the nutritional value of rice. In this healthy eating lesson, 5th graders view the Food Guide Pyramid and the number of servings one is supposed to eat in each food group. They focus on rice and its benefits for the body.
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Heart 2: Changing Lifestyles and Heart Health
Students examine and evaluate changes in diet and lifestyle from prehistoric to modern times and how these differences have spurred the development (and better treatment) of heart disease.
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The Energy Equation
Students explore human energy components. In this personal health lesson, students determine how food, sleep, and exercise impact human energy levels as they play BAM! Body and Mind interactive games. Students create motivational...
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Healthy Heart
Students discover the power of their heart and provide an opportunity to talk about ways to maintain good health. For this early childhood heart lesson, students diagram a human heart, identify exercises that promote a healthy heart, and...
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Good Health Habits
Students examine how they have changed. In this health lesson, students use pictures of themselves from babyhood to present to show how they have changed and the teacher relates the importance of healthy habits in growing.
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Germs and the Body
Students illustrate where germs exist, how they can get into and affect the body, and how the body defends itself against them.
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Germs and the Body
Students explore biology by completing an illness worksheet. In this human germs lesson, students identify how germs are transferred from one body to another and the prevention methods that can be taken. Students complete a worksheet...
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Eating Well and Keeping Fit
Students look at statistics that show children who are overweight are increasing in our society. Students chart out ways to be physically active and how to eat a balanced diet. Students devise a menu/activity chart in light of what has...
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A Funky Healthy Life Style!
Learners name the five food groups and classify foods according to group. They tell how proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins/minerals, and water help their body. Students discuss how play and exercise can help their body.
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Healthy Living
Young scholars awareness is raised about the importance of dies and how to make simple choices to improve your health and well being. They reflect on things they eat, what they watch on TV, what they say to others, have a group song,...
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Eat Right, Stay Fit
Students examine what a healthful diet is, and examine their own eating habits to see if they are getting the right foods to stay healthy. In this eating right lesson students keep track of what they eat for several days and...
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Understanding MyPyramid
Fifth graders investigate serving sizes. For this serving size lesson, 5th graders study the food pyramid paying special attention to proper serving sizes of food. Resources are provided.
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Key to Good Health: Sleep and Mental Relaxation
Students investigate the effect good sleep and rest has on the human body. For this health lesson, students discover the different stages of sleep and discuss ways they can ease their own tension through exercise or meditation....
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Power Up To Gear
In this healthy living worksheet, learners read a recipe for frozen peach ice pops. Students analyze two pictures of Power Panthers and circle the ten differences in the pictures.
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Good Food, Good Health
Students investigate how food provides energy for the human body. For this physical health lesson, students access online resources to identify how certain foods can affect their health. Students discuss how many servings of each food...