Comprehensive Health

The Comprehensive Health and Physical Education standards focus on personal decision-making around emotional and social well-being, positive communication, healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco, drug, and alcohol abuse prevention and violence prevention. The standards underscore important skills for navigating today’s society with its complex and often confusing messages around health, beauty, and happiness. – Colorado Department of Education

Lesson

Description

Colorado Academic Standards Alignment

Healthy Bodies, Healthy Gardens

Students will discuss what nutrition is and brainstorm ways to keep bodies and gardens healthy. Students will tour the garden to identify what makes a garden healthy.

Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness in Health
GR.1-S.2-GLE.1
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.4-S.2-GLE.1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.4

Be Healthy!

Students will compare healthy and non-healthy behaviors and activities through brainstorming. Students will make begin to make connections between eating healthy and growing healthy foods by looking at the food groups outlined in USDA’s MyPlate.

Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness
GR.K-S.2-GLE.1
GR.1-S.2-GLE.1
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.4-S.2-GLE1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.4

Easy Ways to 5-A-Day

Students will discuss easy ways to add 5-A-Day to commonly eaten meals and prepare a rainbow fruit salad.

Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness
GR.K-S.2-GLE.1
GR.1-S.2-GLE.1
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.4-S.2-GLE1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.2
GR.6-S.2-GLE.4

Fun With Fiber

Students will discuss and read about fiber, analyze nutrition labels looking for fiber content, and calculate how much fiber they need in a day. Student will also evaluate which type of cereal with high fiber they like the best.

Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.4

How Much?

Students investigate serving sizes on nutrition labels, measure amounts of food based on serving sizes and calculate nutrition information based on serving sizes. Students will also determine how much exercise is needed to burn off a set amount of calories consumed.

Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.4-S.2-GLE.1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.4

Nutrition Detectives

Students will learn clues to look for healthy food when reading nutrition labels and will play a game where they practice reading labels. Students will prepare a quick snack.

Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.3-S.2-GLE.1
GR.4-S.2-GLE.1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.1 & GLE.4

What Are Whole Grains?

Students will discuss what whole grains are using MyPlate and pictures of whole grains. Students will prepare a healthy snack using whole grain rolls.

Comprehensive Health: Physical & Personal Wellness
GR.2-S.2-GLE.1
GR.5-S.2-GLE.1
GR.6-S.2-GLE.4

We’d like to thank Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation for their generous support of the Healthy Bodies, Healthy Gardens Curriculum.