FIRST
AID | STAYING HEALTHY | KEEPING FIT
GOALS
Have fun sharing what you know about making healthy choices related to good hygiene, healthy eating and being active. Whether you like working with numbers, playing sports, drawing, singing, writing stories, or being funny, share your commitment to staying healthy with others in the way you enjoy.
- Learning about where germs hide and how to avoid them
- Sharing information about hair, skin, nails, teeth, ears and eye care
- Recognizing nutrient rich "power foods"
- Creating and eating healthy snacks
- Thinking about what you eat in a new way, using "I Cues"
- Measure your own flexibility, strength, and endurance
- Prepare a list of Real World Survival Tips to share
- Using your gifts and talents, "smarts," to share what you learn
LEARNER OUTCOMES
This curriculum will help you complete a self-assessment to identify personal talent areas, your "smarts." You will explore hygiene, nutrition, and physical activity topics, share what you learn using a new understanding of your personal interests and talents, and practice a variety of life skills including organizing information, making decisions, thinking creatively, reasoning, communicating, and managing self.
EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
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ACTIVITY |
EDUCATIONAL
STANDARDS |
| Introduction: Be Smart About Your Health | NSS.K-12.4: Individual development and identity |
| Hide and Seek with Germs | NS.5-8.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health and natural hazards |
| Keeping It Clean: Hair, Skin, Nails and Teeth | NL-ENG.K-12.3: Apply strategies to comprehend and interpret text |
| Keeping It Clean: Eyes and Ears |
NS.5-8.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health |
| Power Foods | NM.K-12: Data analysis and probability standard: analyze and organize data in a model |
| Try It - You'll Like It! | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health and nutrition |
| What Are You Eating I-Cues? | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health and nutrition |
| Smart Start | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health and nutrition |
| How Fit is Fit? | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health and exercise |
| Fun for One or Two or Lots of You! | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health and exercise |
| Power Play | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health and exercise |
LINKS
Bacteria and viruses:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/germs.html
Anti bacterial soap: the pros and cons:
http://home.howstuffworks.com/question692.htm
Hygiene:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/body/ear_care.html
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/body/skin_care.html
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/body/teeth.html
How glasses work:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/body/glasses.html
How ears work:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/body/ear_care.html
Nutrition explanation:
http://www.eatsmart.org/
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/nutrition-main.asp
What do vitamins and minerals do for me:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/vitamin.html
Healthy snacks kids can make:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/recipes/index.html
http://www.cspinet.org/smartmouth/recipes_articles/index.html
Endorphins:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/fit/work_it_out.html
FIRST AID | STAYING HEALTHY | KEEPING FIT
