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Grade 3 - Who we are
Healthy Choices
Central Idea:
A balanced approach to nutrition, exercise, and sleep contributes to health.
An Inquiry Into:
- How nutrition contributes to a healthy body
- How exercise affects the body
- Why sleep is necessary for a healthy body
- How nutrition, exercise and sleep are inter-related to maintain a healthy body
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- Food Smarts: My Pyramid for kids . Join a group of campers as they discover the importance of eating right. Using the USDA MyPyramid food guidelines, they learn why some foods are better than others, see how exercise is an important part of any healthful eating plan, and what to do when a particular food makes them groan "yuck!" .
- Daily food choices for healthy living.This best-selling program has been revised using the latest USDA research on what foods North Americans eat and what nutrients are in those foods. With input from nutrition experts, health specialists, and home economics teachers, the program teaches how to make the best food choices. The USDA Food Guide Pyramid is used to illustrate the basic food groups. The program then helps the students put the dietary guidelines into practice. Students will learn what and how much to eat from each food group to get the nutrients needed, but not too many calories or too much fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar, sodium or alcohol. Following the Pyramid will help keep the intake of total fat and saturated fat low and reduce chances of getting certain diseases and help maintain healthy weight. Students will also see how to control the sugar and salt in their diets and to make fewer sugar and salt choices. Special activities are provided for pregnant teens and young women.
- Why exercise? . The program also explains why a person’s decisions about keeping physically active often result in short-term and long-term consequences. Moreover, it shows how exercising regularly carries many benefits – not only for a person’s health, but also for success in mental and physical activities
- Mental energizer. Exercise increases glucose to the brain, which makes it easier for kids to learn. Energize your students' brains with these fun, easy-to-follow physical activities, and stimulate learning in your class. Just follow along to participate in three 4-minute routines
- Inside story with Slim Goodbody: The breath of life: The inside story of respiration. Illustrates how the respiratory system brings oxygen into the body and gets rid of waste, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. Using giant models, Slim traces the path oxygen takes from the air to the alveoli, capillaries, and body cells, and the path carbon dioxide takes back.
- Lifetime fitness. Everybody needs some kind of regular physical activity to look good, feel good, be healthy, and enjoy life.
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