We will discuss give examples and talk about proper portion sizes based on MyPlate. Then students will create their own MyPlate, using cut outs from food magazines.
The students will learn about respecting their self and others. Students will learn how important self esteem is to a good mental and physical health.
Students will explore the impact of magazine advertisements on body image and individual purchasing.
This is a unit of study that focuses on Healthy Lifestyles. Students will learn about healthy eating, sleep and exercise . They will track their data and set a goal to improve their health.
Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body. Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed. Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy. As children are ready, ask them to categorize foods into different food groups.
Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body. Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed. Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy.
Many foods tie into traditions within the months of November and December. Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body. Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed. Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy.
3rd grade students will learn about the importance of good nutrition. They will learn about the nutrients in our food and how they help us to stay healthy.
Per Utah Code 53G-10-402 parental consent is required prior to instruction in this content.
Resource kit with information and lesson ideas for K-12 by Western Health.
As teens develop relationships, it is pertinent that they grow an understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships. This lesson focuses on the basics of relationships and dating violence.
Objective 1. Foods that comprise a healthy diet. Physical activity to maintain optimal body weight.
Students will be able to identify advertising techniques and develop skills to analyze advertisements.
This lesson will help students understand how the brain develops during adolescence and how alcohol affects the adolescent brain differently than an adult brain.
This lesson helps students understand how alcohol damages the brain, as well as identify the risks of binge drinking, alcohol poisoning, and alcoholism.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention site explaining how infections spread
The Digestion and Nutrition Student Edition book is one of ten volumes making up the Human Biology curriculum, an interdisciplinary and inquiry-based approach to the study of life science.
Students will be researching and exploring 6 systems of the human body: the muscular system, the skeletal system, the nervous system, the respiratory system, the circulatory system, and the digestive system. Students will be divided into 6 groups, where they will research a assigned body system. From there, each group creates a mini-lesson using the app, Explain Everything, to teach their assigned system, create a life-size diagram of their system, and create jeopardy questions for a class game.
This lesson will demonstrate how easily germs are spread.
Students will discuss the importance of hygiene. They will conduct a science experiment with potatoes. Students will graph the results of their study.
Students will develop a healthy weight management plan by using the iPad as a way to manage intake and outtake of calories/nutrients. They will also track their exercise and calories burned throughout the day.