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Lesson
Ideas> Everyday > Opportunities
for Daily Physical Activity and Healthy
Eating |
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Learning Outcomes
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Understanding
of everyday foods and the role they
play in being physically active |
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Appreciation that good nutrition
everyday is important to help growth
and be healthy |
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Demonstrate the ability to
select appropriate technologies to
brainstorm and or develop and maintain
a learning log |
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Introduction
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This activity
will assist students to discover the many
different opportunities they might have to
improve and increase their daily physical
activity. It also encourages them to discuss
the importance of everyday foods and to identify
those foods that provide energy to be active.
During this learning task it is important
for students to think of activity as an opportunity
not an inconvenience. Students should try
to accumulate at least 30 minutes a day of
moderate-intensity activity. This is a great
start to improving their health. Good nutrition
everyday is also important to help with healthy
growth and development. |
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Background
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Everyday activities
might include things such as lunchtime sports
practice and all the incidental opportunities
for physical activity like walking to the
shops rather than driving, and using the
stairs instead of lifts.
Encourage students to be physically active
everyday in as many ways as they can, through
activities such as play, games, sports,
recreation, physical education and planned
exercise. It is also important for students
to realise that they don’t have to
spend hours doing strenuous activity to
improve their health. Accumulating at least
30 minutes a day of moderate-intensity
activity is a great beginning to a healthy
lifestyle. |
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Learning
Task
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As a class, brainstorm
everyday foods that students eat for
meals and for snacks. Do the same for
everyday activity |
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Students should discuss the importance
of everyday foods and everyday activity.
They should consider which everyday foods
are important to provide energy to be
active everyday |
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Students develop a list to add to as
they begin to find more new and exciting
ways to be physically active everyday
and discover new everyday foods. They
may want to use a wall chart or computer
software such as Inspiration® or
Word. With the everyday foods, get students
to highlight the items that provide energy.
Students may want to do this by colouring
them in. This will give the class a good
indication on what foods and drink they
should have prior to physical activity |
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Students should keep their own Learning
Log Book and record:
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Everyday
foods which provide the body with
energy to be active |
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A list of new everyday
activities that they would like
to include in their daily routine |
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Log all the physical
activity they do each day |
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Teacher Notes
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You might want
to set aside some time each day to include
some of the activities suggested by your
students into the daily program or try some
of the following to help model and build
up students ideas. Remember when doing a
physical activity to always refer to the
Safety
Guidelines.
Start with the funky basketball steps or
the walk and talk activities below. |
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Funky Basketball
Steps
This activity requires a music player, basketballs
and some seriously good music (optional)
to perform the following moves.
The
Dude Walk
It’s
Just Dribble
Slam
Dunks
High
FIves |
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Here are some
idea’s for everyday activities that
you and your students may like to suggest: |
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Count steps |
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Use a walking pedometer to see how far
they have walked in a day (pedometers
are available from most sporting shops ) |
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Practice a skill they want to get
better at |
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Walk the dog |
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Start a walking club and have topics
to discuss as they walk together |
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Ride a bike |
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Dance to favourite music |
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Help their parents do some gardening |
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Organise some games with other children
in the neighbourhood |
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The curriculum
areas covered in this learning activity include:
Health and PE - planning
for everyday physical activity and foods
Art/Design - class poster Language
Arts -
keeping a log book
Other skills students will learn or develop
include:
Sharing, brainstorming, reflecting, communicating,
working as a class and individually. |
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