Students examine their own eating, sleeping, and exercise habits. They compare them to national health standards, and develop plans for improving them. Then they share their learning to promote a healthier community.

Collaboration with generationOn

Service Experience

Students create an informational poster or pamphlet to share with schools, after-school programs, and daycare centers to teach youth about healthy choices and/or to ask the administration to offer youth heathy food options at school. Student work as a team to approach the administration and people responsible for the food program and vending machines at school. They share what they have learned about nutrition and ask the school to provide more healthy options and less junk food. Students form a plan and carry it out to encourage younger students to be more active. This may include a demonstration or performance, making posters, or playing active games with the youth.

Lessons in This Unit

You Are What You Eat: Show What You Know

Unit:

Be the Change: Personal Health

Lesson 1 of 3

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Students examine their own eating habits, compare them to national health standards, and develop plans for improving them. Then they share their learning to promote a healthier community. Each student selects a single nutritional aspect to study and then creates an awareness poster about that for their school's cafeteria.

Subjects

Unit:

Be the Change: Personal Health

Lesson 2 of 3

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Students learn about the importance of sleep and analyze their own rest patterns. They determine how they can improve their own sleep health.