Objectives
- Give examples of how making healthy choices to recharge or improve one’s mood can lead to making more healthy choices.
Lesson Plan
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 best choice—the fit choice!
Set The Stage
Share examples of healthy choices you've seen students make at school and ask them to share what types of healthy choices they have made outside of school.
Follow along with the slideshow as you continue the lesson.
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Captivate
Awareness of Mood Influencers
Ask students to recall their recharge and mood choices from the previous day. Do they recognize how recharge and mood influenced their choices?Read about the healthy choices each of the kids in the slideshow made to learn how they motivated their mood and recharged their energy to make better choices.
Educate
Learning Self-Management Skills
Highlight each kids' decision to manage their moods and make fit choices on the slideshow. Next, students match fit choices with slideshow photos. A correct answer is one they can justify. Reinforce students’ use of the terms recharge, mood, food, and move.Activate
Practicing Self-Management Skills
Discuss fit choices that kids can make at different times throughout the day. Encourage students to identify someone they can talk to if they need assistance.Option: Download the Make a fit Choice printable for students to draw and/or write about their fit choices.
Grade: 3-5
Time: 20 Minutes
What You'll Need
Resources
- You Can Make fit Choices - Slideshow
- Make a fit Choice - Printable
- fitMarathon - Healthy Choices Challenge for Kids - Printable
Materials
- Markers
- Poster Board or White Board
- Slideshow
Health Education Standards
- Standard 1: Core Concepts - Engage in activities that are mentally and emotionally healthy.
- Standard 4: Interpersonal Communication
- Standard 5: Decision-Making
Social and Emotional Learning Competencies
- Responsible Decision-Making
Extend the Lesson
- Play the fitGame, Would You Rather?
- Print the fit Posters to inspire healthy choices.