Lesson
Teach kids to think about how their energy and mood affect their food and move choices.
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:
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.
Have kids turn and talk with a friend and discuss how their bodies feel after recess. Do they have more energy or less energy after playing? List some of the adjectives that kids use to describe how their bodies feel after playing.
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Think About Your Energy Levels
Have fun reading the slides aloud! Read them slowly or quickly, depending upon whether they refer to low or high energy.
Ask students to share times and places when their energy was low and they didn't feel like being active.
Check Your Energy and Your Mood
Key Points:
Check for understanding: Why do a choice-check?
Think About Your Energy and Mood
Ask students to do a choice-check before their next recess. Remind them to stop and think about their energy and mood, then decide what healthy choice they can make.
Today we learned that it is important to stop and think about your energy and your mood when you make a choice. In the next lesson we will learn how a choice-check can help you to make healthy choices.
Grade: K-2
Time: 20 Minutes
Teach kids to think about making healthy choices and the importance of doing so.
Start LessonEncourage kids to stop and think about their moods and energy levels. This leads to healthier decision-making.
Start LessonTaking time to think about choices is important, we call this a choice-check.
Start LessonMaking healthy choices happens throughout our day. Teach kids to recognize these moments.
Start LessonShow kids how making healthy choices can cause a chain reaction of feeling good and making more healthy choices.
Start LessonHelp kids think more carefully about responsible decision-making. Introduce the idea of making a choice because it's good for your body and brain.
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