Objectives
- A choice-check is a self-awareness tool that helps with healthy decision-making.
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
Ask kids to raise their hands if they have seen a stop sign on the road while they are in the car or on the bus. Ask students to explain the purpose of a stop sign.
To use this with your students click here.
Captivate
Making Choices
The slideshow tells about Noah and Carmen, who both walk to different locations. What are the obstacles they run into? What are their choices?
Educate
Making Healthy Choices
The choice-check is a tool to help you to stop and think about making healthy choices.
Check for understanding: When do you need a choice-check reminder?
Activate
Reminders Help Us Make Healthy Choices
Students make a choice-check sign to remind themselves to stop and think about fit choices.
Download the fit-Check Door Sign printable.
Close the Lesson
In this lesson we learned to stop and think about choices. When we take the time to think about influencers, we make better choices.
Next, we will think about when, during our day, we can do choice-checks.
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!"