Objectives
- Describe the fit-check as "checking recharge and mood before making a choice."
Lesson Plan
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
This unit will help students connect the four parts of fit with everyday choices by teaching them how to do a fit-check. A fit-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!
Set The Stage
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Captivate
Difference Between Choices
Read through Mia and Isaac's choices on the slideshow. Mia does not take the time to do a fit-check and makes an unhealthy choice. Isaac, however, does a fit-check and thinks about making healthy choices.
Educate
Choices Help Us Recharge Energy
Discuss Mia's choice not to do a fit-check and Isaac's decision to do a fit-check.Guide discussion so students understand that Isaac's choices of eating a healthy snack and relaxing with a card game helped him recharge his energy.
Activate
fit-Checks Help Our Mood
Students plan to do a fit-check when they get home from school.Remind your students to think about recharge and mood by asking themselves: Do I have energy? Am I motivated? (Determine if mood is “I will” or “I won’t.”)
Close the Lesson
Grade: K-2
Time: 20 Minutes
What You'll Need
Health Education Standards
- Standard 1: Core concepts-Self-control and impulse-control strategies
- Standard 2: Analyze Influences
- Standard 4: Interpersonal Communication
- Standard 5: Decision-Making
Social and Emotional Learning Competencies
- Self-Awareness
- Self Management
- Responsible Decision-Making