Objectives
- Describe "choice-check" as checking recharge and mood before making a choice.
Info to Know
Being fit is not just about what you eat or drink or how you move. Being fit is about having enough energy and motivation to make healthy nutrition and physical activity choices. Four key factors of well-being help you to be fit:
- Mood: Motivate Your Mood
- Food: Think Your Food
- Recharge: Recharge Your Energy
- Move: Move Your Body
The lessons in this unit help students connect the four parts of fit with everyday choices by teaching them how to do a choice-check. A choice-check is a tool for the moments when a child needs to make a choice. Your students will learn to be mindful and stop to think about their energy and mood before making a choice—then decide the best choice, the fit choice! Print and display the fit Wellness Posters to help them be mindful of healthy choices they can make throughout the day.
Set The Stage
After a long day at school, how do you recharge your energy? What do you choose for a nutritious snack? What do you do for physical activity?
To use this with your students click here.
Captivate
Difference Between Choices
Read through Mia and Isaac's choices on the slideshow. Mia does not take the time to do a choice-check and makes an unhealthy choice. Isaac, however, does a choice-check and thinks about how his mood and recharge influence his choices.
Educate
Choices Help us Recharge Energy
Discuss Mia's choice not to do a choice-check and Isaac's decision to do a choice-check. Guide discussion so students understand that Isaac's choices of eating a nutritious snack and relaxing by playing a card game helped him recharge his energy.
Check for understanding: What can you do to help yourself make a healthy choice?
Activate
fit-Checks Help Our Mood
Students plan to do a choice-check when they get home from school.
Remind your students to think about recharge and mood before making a choice by asking themselves "How much energy do I have?" and "What's my mood?"
Close the Lesson
Today we learned that a choice-check is when you stop and think about your energy and mood so you can make a healthy choice. You also learned about the importance of taking time to do a choice-check. When will you do your next choice-check?
Grade: 3-5
Time: 20 Minutes
What You'll Need
Resources
Materials
- Markers
- Poster Board or White Board
- Slideshow
Health Education Standards
- Standard 1: Core Concepts–Use self-control and impulse-control strategies to promote health.
- Standard 2: Analyze Influences
- Standard 4: Interpersonal Communication
- Standard 5: Decision-Making
Social and Emotional Learning Competencies
- Self-Awareness
- Self-Management
- Responsible Decision-Making
Extend the Lesson
- Play the fitGame, Stop and Think.
- Read about Breathing Techniques to help your students relax and become more mindful of their choices.
- Read about how you can help kids make healthy decisions using the cue "Think fit. Be fit!"