A resource for teachers by teachers
This unit was developed by elementary teachers, an elementary principal, a college professor, and college students. It was developed by the Understanding By Design (UBD) Model incorporated with the LOFTI area project TIMS. Our group designed this unit because of many unhealthy nutritional practices in the United States and is designed for a fifth grade class.
Enduring Understanding:
Students will understand that their daily
choices of diet and exercise directly affect
their health and well-being.
Essential Questions:
Why does nutrition play an important role in maintaining a healthy
lifestyle?
In what ways does physical activity impact health and well-being?
How can analyzing statistical data about physical activity/nutrition help
to make
healthy life choices?
Advertising Techniques
How does the media impact our choices?
Knowledge and Skills:
Upon conclusion of this unit, the student
will be able to ---
Define a healthy diet
Know and use the
food pyramidKnow and use different food groupsUnderstand how different nutrients impact healthRecord daily food intakeEvaluate food labels
Collect, organize and display data
Use excel to record data
Turn data into graphs
Use the formulas in excel to add, subtract and average numbers
Plan an active life style
Use the activity pyramid to plan daily activities Operate a
digiwalker
Use the Internet to locate research materials
Read for information
Evaluate web sites based on accuracy of information, ease of
navigation, "fun
factor"
Recognize how the media impacts our daily choices
Identify basic techniques used by advertisers Plan 'commercials' for healthy choices
Plan and implement activities for a wellness fair based on making healthy
choices
Click
here to see pictures from our wellness fair
Standards...
Math Standard
6.1: Students will collect, organize, and display data in a variety of
forms.
Math Standard
6.2: Students will use statistical data about life situations to make
predictions and justify reasoning.
Reading Standard
1.18: Students will draw inferences, conclusions or generalizations
about text and support them with
textual evidence and experience.
Health Standard
2.1: Students will evaluate the impact of culture, media, and
technology on personal health
decisions and practices.
PE Standard 3.2:
Students will evaluate the health-related fitness benefits resulting
from participation in different forms
of physical activity.
Assessments....
Performance Task:
Goal: Your task
is to plan and implement a ˝ day wellness fair for another 5th grade
class.
Role: You are an
expert in nutrition and/or physical activity.
Audience: The
target audience is your peers and parents.
Situation: The
challenge involves creating engaging activities that educate the
participants
in proper diet and exercise.
Product: You
have been asked to design a station in the Eat Smart – Play Hard
Wellness fair
based on the research you have done throughout your unit on health
and wellness.
Performance
Standard: Your station must meet the following requirements:
Inform
participants about healthy life choices.
Maximize
nutrition and physical activity
Engages
participants for an allotted time period of 10”.
Possible
Stations for the Wellness Fair
Media
influences our choices?
Healthy food
Snack
Healthy drinks
Create a graph
of Digiwalker activity
Using
Digiwalkers in loco motor activity (4 stations)
The Food
Guide Pyramid
This is an excellent resource for students, parents and teachers. It
explains about the food pyramid, plus other health related subjects, such as
dealing with feelings, everyday illness and growing up.
Dole 5 A Day:
The Dole site contains a great deal of information on anything relating to
nutrition. It has links for lesson plans, student activities, awards and
much more! Check it out to see how the site could help you.
US Government Nutrition Sites: Food Pyramid:
Not only does this site have information on the food pyramid, but it has
information that can benefit all aspects of nutrition.
5
A Day the Color Way - Ideas to make healthy
smoothies
Pics for Learning:
Food Pyramid:
This is a lesson plan that has students designing their own food guide pyramid
using pictures and analyzing their food consumption.
Veggie Power Cyberhunt:
Another cyberhunt! This cyberhunt tests the students
knowledge about vegetables.
Healthy Choices for Kids Online -
A complete unit plan
Got Milk
- This site has pictures taken
with people that have taken pictures for the milk mustaches. A possibility
for this would be to have your students take pictures with milk mustaches and
make a bulletin board!
Kellogg - activities for kids and lesson for teachers:
Contains an unit plan on food along with along with a kit that compliments that
unit plan. It also has a variety of recipes.
Kellogg Cereal Labels:
This site contains a list of all the cereal made by
Kellogg along with their nutrition labels.
Food Finder -
Gives nutritional information about fast foods
Nutrition Café -
Select you favorite meal, calculates nutrients + other
online activities
Online Lesson Plans --
Eating Right – Feeling Great!
Web quest
Lots of Lesson Plans about Food
Responsible, Healthy Lifestyles
Serve Up Classroom Nutrition Activities
School Menu --
These websites provide some valuable information that would be helpful if you had your students create a menu for the school one day. You could even have each grade take a turn making a menu for the day.
Fitness --
Games from Zoom
Rules for old and new games - students can submit their own games.
VERB
This is a great site that encourages kids of all ages to get active.
It includes game rules and tips for playing
Shape Up
Body Fat Lab: This site not only
contains information about body fat, what it is and the basics, but it also
contains information about where the presidents stack up compared to each other!
The Fitness Pyramid:
This site contain a picture of the activity pyramid.
It also contains a list of activities for students to participate in with their
families! Never heard of the activity pyramid, well, check it out! It is
neat!
Activity Pyramid: Just
another version of the activity pyramid. Along with different activities
for students to do that fall under the different categories!
My Own
Activity Pyramid:
This is a form that the children can fill out regarding the activity that they
wish to partake in!
The Kids Activity Pyramid:
This is a free publication that gives the students some
ideas of how to fill in the activity pyramid and the second page is a blank one
that allows your students to keep track of their activities
Fun in Seven:
This site contains a lot of information regarding fitness and physical activity.
It may not be a site that you let children explore on their own, although it
does have a link for games.
Winter Activity Pyramid:
Many things can be done very easily during the spring,
summer, and fall, but what do you do about the winter? Check out this site
for a list of many winter activities!
Walking Lesson Plans --
Braiding and Weaving:
This lesson plans gives students a variety of paths that they can walk with
a group of 2-3 students.
Technology Lesson Plan:
This is a simple lesson plan using digiwalkers
My Exercise Plan:
Designed for high school students by NASA explorers. This lesson plan has
the students learning about how astronauts exercise in space.
Fitness Lab:
This lesson plan teaches the students the value of
exercise through active participation.
***Here’s To Your Healthy Heart
Digiwalkers:
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Healthy Heart Information:
This site contains a lot of good ideas that can be used to
help your children keep their heart healthy.