Grade | Lesson # | Lesson Title | Lesson Description |
3 | 1 | Heart Health | To review the body’s circulatory system and the important effects that healthy eating and exercise have on the heart. |
2 | Heart Smart | To identify activities that are healthy and unhealthy for your heart. | |
3 | The ‘Whole’ Truth | To distinguish between whole grains and processed foods. | |
4 | Sometimes Sweet | To identify the types of added sugars in food and beverages. | |
5 | Yoga Kids | To discuss the importance of all types of activities. | |
6 | Go Foods Fill Us Up! | To raise awareness of how eating lower-calorie, nutrient-dense foods can increase satiety more as compared with eating calorie-dense foods. | |
4 | 1 | Ready, Set, GO For Health! | To review the importance of physical activity and healthy eating |
2 | Energy Balance | To review the importance of achieving energy balance, balancing the amount of food and drinks they consume (energy in) to provide the right amount of fuel their bodies need for healthy growth, everyday living, and physical activity (energy out). | |
3 | GO! For Energy Balance | To recognize the importance of choosing GO foods to keep their body in energy balance. | |
4 | SNACK-vertising GO Foods | To identify the types of added sugars in food and beverages. | |
5 | Less Mindless Eating | To identify mindless eating and ways to reduce their own mindless eating. | |
6 | Food Fat Facts | To distinguish between healthy and unhealthy fats. | |
5 | 1 | Breaking Through Barriers | To practice making healthy choices by applying four options they can use to overcome barriers to doing GO activities and eating GO foods. |
2 | MyPlate | To review MyPlate and apply it to a cafeteria menu. | |
3 | Going for FIT | To recognize that physical activities should be done frequently, with intensity, and for 60 minutes a day. | |
4 | Portion Distortion | To recognize portion sizes and apply the MyPlate guidelines. | |
5 | Be Your Best You! | To explore the concept of the media’s impact on our healthy body images. | |
6 | Plan of Action | To develop a plan of action to incorporate physical activity into a healthy lifestyle. |