Objectives
- Explain that sleep gives your body energy to make healthy choices.
Lesson Plan
Recharge influences healthy choices. Recharge is all about your energy! fit presents different ways to recharge and get energy:
- Get enough sleep (9–12 hours).
- Relax, without a screen, throughout the day.
The amount of sleep recommended by different organizations varies; however for school-age children, most recommend 9–12 hours of sleep each night. This week's topic will introduce students to the sleep zone, an environment conducive to sleep. Paired with a bedtime routine, a sleep zone will help your students recharge each night.
Set The Stage
Ask kids to turn and talk to a partner about how they feel when they wake up in the morning. Do they want to keep sleeping? Are they ready for the day? At what point during the day do they notice themselves feeling tired?
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Captivate
Recharging Energy Levels
Ask students to show their energy level by either sitting on the floor (low), standing (in the middle), or standing with their hands in the air (fully recharged) as depicted on the slideshow.
Keep a count of the students in each energy level category to compare with Lesson 5 when they repeat the activity.
Educate
Importance of Sleep
Explain that getting enough sleep is one of the most important things you can do for your health. Not enough sleep means you are likely to:
- Find it difficult to think and remember things.
- Not have enough energy to move throughout your day.
- Make unhealthy food choices.
Check for understanding: Your body and brain need _ _ _ _ _ for good health.
Activate
Establish Healthy Sleep Habits
Students are to write down the time they go to bed tonight, then write down the time they wake up tomorrow morning on a piece of paper. Bring the paper to school tomorrow.
They will then use the Sleep Calculator printable to discover how many hours they slept.
Close the Lesson
Today we examined our sleep habits. Next, we will learn how many hours of sleep our bodies need.
Grade: K-2
Time: 20 Minutes
What You'll Need
Resources
Materials
- Markers
- Poster Board or White Board
- Slideshow
Health Education Standards
- Standard 1: Core Concepts - Get an appropriate amount of sleep and rest.
- 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, Get Your Zs.
- Listen to the song, To Be Your Best, You Need Your Rest, to help kids understand why they benefit from rest and relaxation.
- Read about how to do a body scan to relax and fall asleep in the article, Bedtime Relaxation for Kids.
- Read the article, Bedtime Habits for Better Sleep, to learn about the benefits of establishing bedtime routines.