Objectives
- Name four types of healthy choices (recharge your energy, motivate your mood, think your food, and move your body).
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
Give a few examples of choices students might have to make after school and ask students to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down about whether the choice is good for the body and brain (e.g., Apple or candy bar? Brownies or celery with peanut butter? Computer games or hide-and-seek?).
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Captivate
Noticing Types of Healthy Choices
Can you name an object that has four parts?Educate
Evaluating Choices
Explain that fit also has four parts:
- Recharge your energy.
- Motivate your mood.
- Think your food.
- Move your body.
Can your students name all four parts of fit?
Activate
Close the Lesson
Take time throughout the day to name examples of the different types of fit choices you observe kids making. Pay special attention to modeling motivating self-talk and calling out examples of recharging energy. Get ready to think about what kinds of things influence the choices we make.
Grade: K-2
Time: 20 Minutes
What You'll Need
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?
- Listen to Do the fit Thing from the music playlist to get kids singing about healthy choices.
- Print the fit Posters to inspire healthy choices.