Objectives
- Identify times and places to do a fit-check.
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
Have Kids Think About Healthy Choices
Read slides aloud. If it describes a time and place that a student has done a fit-check, they are to stand. If not, they stay seated.(Trick questions! All of the times and places are when children make food, move, or recharge choices, so they are all times and places for a fit-check!)
Educate
Teach Kids to Make Healthy Choices
Anytime students make a recharge, food, or move choice is a great time for them to do a fit-check and make a healthy choice.Ask students to talk about times in their day when they make food choices. What about move and recharge choices?
Activate
How to Remind Kids to Make Healthy Choices
Students create a poster using the fit-Check Poster to show the times and places they can do a fit-check.Close the Lesson
Grade: K-2
Time: 20 Minutes
What You'll Need
Resources
Materials
- Markers
- Slideshow
- Poster Board or White Board
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