P1-P
Overview: You will learn the benefits of avoiding tobacco use, improving eating habits, and a commitment physical activity. At the end of this unit, you will be able to identify healthy habits which promote cardiovascular health.
Major Focus
Academic Expectations:
2.30 Students evaluate consumer products and services and make effective consumer decisions.
2.31 Students demonstrate the knowledge and skills they need to remain physically healthy and to accept responsibility for their own physical well‑being.
2.32 Students demonstrate strategies for becoming and remaining mentally and emotionally healthy.
2.34 Students perform physical movement skills effectively in a variety of settings.
2.35 Students demonstrate the knowledge and skills that promote physical activity and involvement in physical activity throughout their lives.
Essential Content:
· Influences on consumer decisions
· Impact of diet on growth and development
· The food guide pyramid and its significance
· Basic food groups according to the food guide pyramid
· Various stretching, strengthening, and cardiovascular endurance activities and their benefits
· Feel and hear their own heartbeat
· Body changes that occur during physical activity
· Risks of nonmedicinal drugs (e.g., nicotine)
· Decision‑making strategies
Organizer:
Ready, set, go ‑‑ Race for a healthy heart
Essential Questions:
o How does my cardiovascular system work?
o How do the ABCs of cardiovascular health affect me?
o How does advertising influence the choices I make?
o How do I make positive choices for good cardiovascular health?
Culminating Project
Your class will organize and participate in a health fair that will be open to the school and community. The fair's theme will be the "Kentucky 500" complete with pit stops featuring information concerning nutrition, tobacco use, physical activity, and cardiovascular health. You will work cooperatively to establish pit stops showcasing information gained from classroom activities on cardiovascular health. Parents and community members will complete a scorecard you develop as they move from pit stop to pit stop.
· You will develop advertisements to display around the school and community. Pit crew T-shirts may also be created.
With the help of community volunteers, you will serve as a member of a pit crew and create one of the following suggested pit stops: Get your program ‑ Student‑created pamphlets will be distributed with information about the "Kentucky 500." Fuel station ‑ Information about healthy snacks for good nutrition will be displayed along with healthy snacks prepared by students. Exhaust station ‑ Information about the risks and consequences associated with tobacco use will be displayed. Fit pit ‑ Proper warm‑up, pre‑stretches, and cool‑down stretching techniques will be demonstrated. Participants perform various stretches. Qualifying run ‑ Participants complete a cardiovascular endurance test. Engine room ‑ Participants learn how the heart works. Judges' station ‑ Judges use fitness test results (e.g., Presidential Fitness Test) to assess participant’s cardiovascular health. They also evaluate the information on
participants' scorecards.
You have just visited the health fair. Show in pictures and/or words 4 healthy choices presented at the fair.