Food travels through the esophagus via rhythmic muscular contractions referred to as peristalsis.
After food is digested in the stomach, it enters the small intestine.
Nutrients are absorbed into tiny blood vessels found inside villi. Blood then carries nutrients throughout the body.
40 maps, charts, and graphs that show where our food comes from and how we eat it by VOX.
Children will listen to music and stop their bodies from moving when the music pauses. This allows students to explore movement through dance and also helps build self-control as they start and stop activities.
This lesson is about the importance of friends as part of a support system that helps students make healthy choices.
Students will learn the difference between fruits and vegetables, and will be able to name them.
This lesson is to help small students (and big ones alike) to help manage stress that they feel in their daily lives.
This lesson includes interactive slides to promote engagement with the content for students. Students will be asked their opinions through a discussion board, answer a survey through a polling method, participate in live games against one another, interactive videos with questions throughout, and other assessment features that are developed by Nearpod. Students will also go through the various slides which can be done as a whole class or throughout individualized student pacing.
This lesson plan covers the Utah State Standard Standard HII.SDP.6Research preventive measures for chronic and infectious health conditions, and the physical, mental and emotional, social and economic effects on self and society.Lesson includes an experiment, journal, personal reflection, assessment, and PowerPoint included.
Students will learn that germs cause illness and that handwashing is the best way to prevent illness. They will also learn proper handwashing steps. An experiment with potato slices shows them how germs grow on surfaces that they touch.
Students will be introduced to the main vitamins. Students will identify what they do and where they are found. Students will work in groups and present information in a slide show or movie format.
In this lesson students will practice assertive communication, problem solving, and conflict management skills.
In this lesson students will learn to distinguish between goals and dreams and identify the benefits of having dreams, setting goals, and working toward them. They will learn how to use guidelines for making dreams come true and for planning how to reach a specific goal.
Students will identify goal-setting strategies and use them to create a plan for reaching a health-related goal
Students will be using the Clips App to create a video showing and describing their short and long term goals.
Children will be able to identify healthy foods and non-healthy foods. They will be able to have fun while learning and being active. The children will also be able to use there own language to teach their fellow classmates new words for the pictures.
Students will, over a week, record the amount of time they spend sleeping, attending school, watching T.V., exercising and doing homework. At the end of the week the students will graph all of their information and discuss how sleep impacts their learning. The graphs will be used to discuss daily habits and ways to improve overall health.
Information from the Children’s Bureau on the health benefits of gratitude and how to teach.
Khan Academy and PERTS, Stanford University’s applied research center on academic mindsets, created this lesson together in order to provide a few activities to introduce students to the concept order to provide a few activities to introduce students to the concept that intelligence can be developed. Feel free to adapt and edit these activities below to meet the needs of your classroom!