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What is Physical Activity?
Young scholars explore the functions of the heart and how it needs to work hard and rest. They play the "Wise Owl Says" game.
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Where Does the Blood Go?
Students investigate where the blood in our hearts travels by observing a diagram in class. In this cardiovascular activity, students examine their own heart by checking their pulse in class. Students investigate a human body...
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What Are the Food Groups?
Students discover the four main food groups by categorizing their own diet. In this healthy eating lesson, students utilize a chart with pictures of food to identify which food belongs in which food group. Students discuss...
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How Do Foods Help Our Bodies
Young scholars investigate the specific elements found in food that keep us healthy. For this healthy eating lesson, students identify proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins as part of a healthy diet when consumed in...
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How Can You Stay Fit?
Students identify ways that cardiovascular fitness is achieved and maintained. In this cardiovascular health lesson, students discuss what aerobic exercise is and list various activities which address cardiovascular fitness. Students run...
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Healthy Hearts
Students research the basic concepts of heart health and disease and become an expert in an area as it relates to the heart and circulatory system. They prepare a multimedia presentation of their findings.
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A Balanced Diet
Students determine which healthy foods comprise a well balanced meal. Using a checklist, students classify foods as healthy or unhealthy. This instructional activity is intended for students acquiring English.
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A Healthy Heart
Sixth graders create a spreadsheet using specific data. A speaker comes to discuss the heart, and the difference between anaerobic and aerobic activity. They make posters to encourage a healthy heart lifestyle.
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Dribbling Speedway
Students control a ball while dribbling with hands and feet through obstacles. This is a heart healthy activity that accompanies the completion of several tasks as they reach their assigned station.
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Making Healthy Food Choices
Students examine importance of making healthy food choices, discuss connection between what we eat and healthy body and heart, discriminate between healthy food or "heart-smart choices," and "junk food," and plan healthy meal or snack.
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Keeping Healthy
Students exercise their muscles to explore concept of heart rate and to explain how blood supplies muscles with oxygen.
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Hardy Heart: Kit Instructions
Students describe human anatomy by reading a children's book. For this heart health lesson, students examine illustrations of heart images and several organ related children's stories. Students discuss ways to keep a healthy heart and...
Bethel School District
Health Triangle Self Assessment
Measure health as a triangle, with each side representing different aspects of health: physical, emotional/mental, and social. High schoolers complete a self-assessment of their health in all three areas before scoring their progress and...
National Heart Association
Cold Weather Fitness Guide
Don't sacrifice physical activity every time cold winter weather arrives. From walking or circuit training to warm, healthy recipes and safety reminders, this resource will help encourage learners to prioritize their fitness and stay...
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How Do You Choose Snacks and Other Foods?
Young scholars discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions. In this personal health instructional activity, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations....
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Healthy Hearts
Students focus on advanced technologies used to treat disease impacting the cardiopulmonary system; they then reflect on the experiences of having and overcoming illnesses.
Texas Heart Institute
Exercise: What Kinds of Activities Are Best?
What happens in the muscles during anaerobic and aerobic exercise, and how does this affect the heart and our overall health? A cross-curricular lesson plan that introduces learners to the lifelong benefits of exercise, including...
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What's the Big News?
Students investigate healthy eating by choosing a variety of foods. In this personal health instructional activity, students read the story Big News! Straight from the Heart, and discuss which characters ate which foods....
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How Muscles Work
In this heart muscle activity, learners analyze two pictures of people in action. Students label the pictures with "contracting muscle" or "relaxing muscle". Learners study two more pictures of muscle movement and label each one...
Health Smart Virginia
Happiness
There's power in a flower. After taking a happiness survey and watching a PowerPoint about the habits of happy people, pupils decorate a paper flower with six positive affirmation statements that they feel they can benefit from reading...
Health Smart Virginia
Mental and Emotional Health
Working in groups, sixth-graders identify internal factors that negatively impact them. Then, explain how they could change that factor into a positive influence. Finally, individuals create personal mind maps that identify their...
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HEART THROBS
Middle schoolers predict what might happen to their pulse rates after physical exertion and then make conclusions about the effects of physical activity on pulse rates.
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How Does the Cardiovascular System Work?
Students explore the basic anatomy and functions of the cardiovascular system. They identify parts of the cardiovascular system according to the levels of organization. In addition, they trace the path of a blood cell through the...
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Make Your Meal Matter
Students examine the calorie content of fast food items. In this adult health lesson, students discuss obesity problems in US. They apply the tips for healthy fast food dining in selecting a meal.