Healthy Eating Habits
Fitness: Healthy Heart -- Monitoring Heart Rate
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Healthy Eating Habits |
Fitness: Healthy Heart -- Monitoring Heart Rate |
Good fitness and healthy eating habits are an essential part of any athlete's personal regime. And, they are an essential part of our own health if we wish to live a full and productive life. Each of us is empowered to take care of our bodies and prolong our life.
The activities in this unit are designed to help students become aware of some basic principles about healthy eating and physical fitness so that they can build their own program and set their own goals for a healthier lifestyle!
Through a number of guided activities, students will learn about the importance
of healthy eating habits and heart rate, specifically as it relates to overall
good nutrition and fitness. Activities are geared toward a general audience
of children between the ages of 7-17. These activities introduce children from
the Washington Heights community, as well as musuem visitors from different
communities and cities, to nutrition and fitness. At the start of each of the
activities, students will be able to navigate through pre-selected resources
related to the main topic in each activity. Students will then have the opportunity
to compare their own levels of health and fituess to those of track and field
athletes.
After completing the first two discrete activities students will create a personalized brochure that highlights tips for healthy eating and fitness, as well as includes their own personal nutrition and fitness goals.
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Activity #2 Learning Activity Description for Teachers (compare to students) Guided Web-based Activity for Students
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Activity #3 Students will have the opportunity to create their own personalized health and fitness brochure based on what they learned in the activities. Students will download the template brochure, and fill in the suggested sections. The first page of the brochure is considered the inside, where students will fill in tips for healthy eating and fitness as well as their own personal goals. The second page of the brochure is the outside section. When students have completed the inside, they may spend some time being creative to include their own images. Resources
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What was the most significant aspect of these activities to you personally?
What (if any) myths did you discover about health and fitness?
Consider ways that a combination of factors will reduce your Resting Heart Rate to improve your overall level of fitness.
Extension Activities
Check out the other activities for using technology, Excel spreadsheets, heart rate and nutrition exercises.
Co-Nect Classroom Activities
Additional standard-based activities that integrate technology into health and
fitness curriculum.
Fitness - The Key
to Survival
A Quest to challenge students to adapt a healthy lifestyle.
Quantum
Fitness
A galactical Web Quest that challenges students to create a fitness plan for
their classmates.
