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LESSON6 Grades K-3
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Objective
Learner Outcome
There are skills to practice that will lead to a healthful lifestyle.
Recognize choices and their consequences.
Comprehensive
Education
Health
Topic(s)
III Nutrition
XI Healthful Lifestyles
Values Integration
Reasoning: Consider choices to be made and the consequences of
those choices.
Respect for Self: Responsibilities related to one's health that will
maintain and improve a healthful1ifestyle.
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Motivating Activity The teacher will tell a short story about Jane (see Identification).
(This can be done as a progressive story.)
Identification The teacher will tell the story of Jane: Jane woke up late on a rainy
school day. She had no time to brush her teeth or eat breakfast. She
was late getting to school, and she forgot her homework and her
lunch. What will happen to Jane?
Effective Communication Students will discuss the choices Jane made.
Students will create a new story about Jane and what she could have
done to make her day better.
Decision Making
Students will decide what Jane could have done and what the consequences
of her new choices might be.
Positive Health
Behaviors
Students will take responsibility-for daily routines, such as:
• planning
• eating appropriately
• allowing sufficient time for routines
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