Students explore the relationship among the amount of food energy (calories) consumed, weight, and metabolism and how making good decisions about diet and exercise can lay the groundwork for a healthy lifestyle.
Students learn the medical meanings behide overweight and obesity.
This is a supplemental presentation that should be used with the Balance Your Day with Food and Play lesson. Students will learn about the importance of physical activity and how it ensures good health.
This video shows the risk factors of having high blood pressure and what can be done to control it.
Students read about ways to make streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. They learn about the health benefits associated with pedestrian-friendly communities, assess their own community?s level of pedestrian and cyclist access and make recommendations for improving these neighborhood attributes.
This is a supplemental article that can be used in conjunction with the Exercise lesson plan. The article discusses the benefits of exercise and how to fit it into your every day schedule.
In this lesson students will learn the benefits of being physically active.
Students consider the definition of hunger and where and how hunger most affects people, including children. They then consider the fact that hunger is ?solvable? and create action plans to inform and engage their communities.