Four Types of Healthy Choices for Kids

First and foremost, fit is about choices. Each day a child, no matter their age, makes many choices that impact their health and well-being. The lessons in this unit build awareness of the many moments each day when they can make a choice, then empowers them to make the healthy choice—the fit choice! Print and display the fit Posters to support healthy decision-making involving recharge, mood, food, and move.

Give a few examples of choices students might make after school and ask students to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down about which choice is the healthier choice for your body and brain such as an apple or candy bar, brownies or celery with peanut butter, computer games or hide-and-seek.

Follow along with the slideshow as you continue the lesson.

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Noticing Types of Healthy Choices

How many sides does a square have? How many legs does a dog have? What about a car, how many wheels does a race car have? 

Just like fit, they all have four parts.

Evaluating Choices

Explain that fit has four parts:

• Recharge: Find healthy screen-free ways to relax and get the sleep your body needs.
• Mood: Recognize the connection between your mood and your motivation.
• Food: Make nutritious food and beverage choices.
• Move: Move many times, many ways, and in many places throughout the day.
  
   

 Check for understanding: What are the four parts of fit?

Identifying Choices

Students write or draw a choice for each part of fit.

Download the fit Choices printable for students to draw their choices for each part of fit.

Take time throughout the day to name examples of the different types of fit choices you observe kids making. Download the ABCs of a Healthy Me poster pack for healthy choice ideas involving recharge, mood, food, and move. Get ready to think about what kinds of things influence the choices we make.