Shake Up Your Wake Up

Key Message

Power your day with nutritious breakfast choices.

Objectives

Using a stoplight as a tool, identify nutritious green-light food choices you can eat for breakfast (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, protein foods, milk, and water).
Apply throwing and tossing skills to game play.

Preparation

Safety: Allow enough space to move freely and minimize collisions. Determine boundaries that are a safe distance from obstacles and walls.
Ensure equipment and materials are properly cleaned.
Determine how you will group learners, using best practice guidelines from Effective Strategies for Grouping Learners.
Determine locomotor movements for game play.
Be prepared to demonstrate fitBoost activity and fitFlow yoga.

Warm Up

Begin with a fitBoost.

Captivate

Learners form a large circle. Identify a center line that divides the circle into two sides. If a learners prefers the first option they move to the left side of the center line. If a learner prefers the second option, they move to the right side of the center line. This forms a side-to-side line facing the other options side. After each question, learners return to their place in the circle. Emphasize "eat more," "eat some," and "eat less" as you read the following questions:

After you wake up in the morning, would you rather drink more milk or eat more bananas for breakfast?

After you wake up in the morning, would you rather drink some orange juice or eat some strawberry yogurt for breakfast?

After you wake up in the morning, would you rather eat less cupcakes or less candy for breakfast?

Teacher note: Refer to the Red-Light, Yellow-Light and Green-Light Foods article for background information on the stoplight tool and Eat More, Eat Some, Eat Less food categories.

Educate

Breakfast is an important meal! Your breakfast food choices give your body and brain energy to power through your day.

What are some of the food choices you make for breakfast? (Allow learners to answer.)

Most people only think of “breakfast food” for a morning meal, but what’s most important is you choose nutritious foods for breakfast. You can eat things like chicken, or vegetables, or even tuna for breakfast! Try adding chicken and veggies into your omelet or put some tuna on a piece of whole grain toast.

The number one thing you need to know is eating nutritious foods for breakfast gives your body and brain the fuel they need to go, grow, and know all day long!

Today we are going to learn about nutritious foods. Before we begin it’s important to know that no foods are good or bad, some just provide more nutrition than others! We will use a stoplight to help us. Green-light foods are the most nutritious and can be eaten at any time and provide your body and brain with the most fuel. Yellow-light foods have some nutrition, but not as much as green-light foods do so choose these sometimes. Red-light foods have the lowest nutritional value for your brain and body, so choose these less throughout the day. Remember that green-light foods will give your body and brain fuel to power through your day!

Activate

The goal of this activity is to build awareness of nutritious food choices for breakfast. Use the Eat More, Eat Some, Eat Less Food Chart to call out foods from each food group and category while playing the game.
Form teams of 3-4 learners and make evenly spaced lines across the play area.
In this relay game, teams toss a beanbag between learners in their line. The final learner tosses the beanbag towards either a green or red target on the ground, based on the food type the teacher states.
The teacher begins each round by selecting a food choice from the Eat More, Eat Some, Eat Less Food Chart* and announcing it to the group. Teams decide if it is a green-light or red-light food.
Team members then toss the beanbag down their line. The last learner aims for the color target corresponding to the food choice.
If the beanbag is dropped or misses the target, it must start from the beginning of the line, and the team must relay it to the last person again.
Once a team successfully hits the target, the last learner moves to the front of the line, and the rest of the team shifts forward, giving someone else the chance to aim for the correct target.
Repeat as the teacher names more food items.
If time allows, let learners call out food items.

*Modify game for children in grades 3-5 to include yellow-light, "Eat Sometimes" foods. Each team will need a green, yellow, and red spot for their final toss.

Close the Lesson

Partner learners.
Select a fitFlow card and work in partners to complete the poses.
While the learners are stretching, ask for examples of nutritious foods they would choose for breakfast:

We played a game called "Shake Up Your Wake Up." How can you shake up your wake up?

Assess understanding with the following questions:

Q: Today, I was a health helper who helped you learn more about “Eat More” breakfast food choices. Can you name some other health helpers who can help you with breakfast choices?
A: Teachers, food-service workers, school staff, parents, or trusted adults.

Q: What are some of your favorite breakfast foods? What are some new foods you can try for breakfast?
A: Listen for examples of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, proteins, dairy, or water.

Q: How would you describe “Eat More” green-light foods to a friend?
A: "Eat More” foods are the best choice to power your body. They include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, proteins, dairy, or water.

Q: Name a food you will choose at breakfast to shake up your wake up!
A: Assess learners’ examples of nutritional options for breakfast. Do they identify green-light fruits, vegetables, whole grains, proteins, and dairy? Do they mention water too?

Challenge

Name at least 3 green-light foods you would eat for breakfast.

What You'll Need

Resources

Materials

Beanbags
Colored Paper

Health Education Standards

Standard 1: Use functional health information to support health and well-being
Standard 5: Use a decision-making process to support personal and community health and well-being
Standard 7: Demonstrate practices and behaviors to support health and well-being

Social and Emotional Learning Competencies

Responsible Decision-Making

Physical Education Standards

Standard 1: Develops a variety of motor skills
Standard 2: Applies knowledge related to movement and fitness concepts
Standard 4: Develops personal skills, identifies personal benefits of movement, and chooses to engage in physical activity

Extend the Lesson

The fit lesson, Ways that Kids Can Fuel Their Bodies and Brains introduces the stoplight tool to help kids think about nutritious food choices.
Watching The Scoop on Sugar video will build awareness of added sugar in foods.
Print the How to Build a Meal diagram and My Plate Meal to guide kids to create their own nutritious breakfast.
Search the key word Healthy Cooking for kid-friendly recipes for breakfast or anytime.
Encourage families to read Food is Fuel for healthy eating information and links to a video series highlighting each of the MyPlate food groups.

Adaptations and Modifications

Adapt locomotor skills and movement patterns to learners' needs, interests, and abilities. Read our full list of inclusive ideas for Adapting Games for Every Learner.
Sensory Modifications: Allow learners to walk or wheel the beanbag if tossing is difficult. Allow learners who may have difficulty participating in the relay to help with selecting and announcing food items.
Use one of our short videos for your daily PE warmup or cooldown!
- fit Workouts: YouTube Playlist

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