Healthy Hearts
4th Grade Colorado Academic Standards
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education
2. Physical and Personal Wellness
1. Demonstrate the ability to set a goal to enhance personal nutrition status
Healthy Hearts presentation and workbook discusses the benefits of:
- Identify good food choices they are already making
- Goal setting
- Students write out goals for 5210, sign at the bottom and have a friend sign to help them with accountability
- MyPlate
- Building healthy meals, portion sizes, moderation
- Compare their meals, discuss why certain foods are not included (dessert, candy, soda, etc.)
- Reading food labels activity
- Examine the connection between food intake and physical health
Healthy Hearts presentation and workbook discusses the health impacts of:
- Using MyPlate to guide healthy eating to maintain overall health
- Protein, grains, dairy, fruits and vegetables and their importance
- Benefits of eating breakfast, physical and mental
- HDL (good) cholesterol being increased by eating unsaturated fats
- Saturated fats increase LDL (bad)
- Examine that the dimensions of wellness are interrelated and impact personal health
Healthy Hearts presentation discusses the health impacts of:
- Eating too much sugar/salt, not exercising, not managing stress, and tobacco/alcohol will increase blood pressure and heart disease risk
- Four modifiable risk factors
- Eating habits, exercise, stress management, and smoking/tobacco use
- Exercise improves brain function, memory, and mood
- Eating healthier foods (five servings fruits/vegetables, unsaturated fats) makes you feel better and have more energy to do activities you enjoy
- 5210 summarizes the dimensions of wellness
- Exercising and eating healthy keeps the brain sharp, muscles growing, and stress reduced
Prepared Graduates in the Physical and Personal Wellness standard are:
Participate regularly in physical activity
Healthy Hearts presentation and workbooks discusses the health impacts of:
- Effects of physical inactivity on the body
- Blood pressure increases, LDL cholesterol increases
- Effects of physical activity
- Keeps the body strong, helps blood flow, and helps maintain healthy blood pressure, body weight and cholesterol levels
- Strengthens heart muscle
- Raises HDL (good) cholesterol
- It’s fun!
- Compare how they feel before vs after exercise
- Physical activity should increase heart rate, breathing rate, and heat/sweat output.
- Experiment of rats that exercise vs rats that do not
- Proves exercise improves brain function
Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
- 60 minutes of physical activity every day
- Doesn’t have to be all at once…can be 10 minutes at a time throughout day.
Apply knowledge and skills to engage in lifelong healthy eating
Healthy Hearts presentation and workbooks discusses the health impacts of:
- MyPlateto teach portion sizes and moderation
- Healthy lunch options, breakfast facts, label reading activity, healthy snack options, etc.
- Saturated vs unsaturated fats
- Emphasize lifelong healthy eating
- Plaque can start to form at age two
Apply knowledge and skills related to health promotion, disease prevention and health maintenance
Healthy Hearts presentation and workbooks discusses the health impacts of:
- Healthy Hearts promotes health and health maintenance through lifestyle choices
- Helps prevent heart disease and other factors of living an unhealthy lifestyle:
- Heart attack, stroke, hypertension and atherosclerosis
3. Emotional and Social Wellness
2. Comprehend concepts related to stress and stress management
Healthy Hearts presentation and workbooks discusses the health impacts of:
- Discuss the effects of stress on the body
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Provide examples of healthy ways to manage stress
- Draw how they like to deal with stress
- Everyone has stress in their life but it is important we learn how to manage it in healthy ways vs. unhealthy ways
Prepared Graduates in the Emotional and Social Wellness standard are:
Utilize knowledge and skills to enhance mental, emotional and social well-being
Healthy Hearts program discusses:
- A healthy lifestyle helpsour mental health
- Feel better, more energy, more focused, and improved self-confidence
- Prevention and Risk Management
2. Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to avoid using tobacco
Healthy Hearts presentation and workbooks discusses the health impacts of:
- Second-hand smoke and how to avoid it
- How to say no to smoking/tobacco
- Class recites a pledge to never use tobacco products
- Polite and respectful ways to ask family or friends to not smoke near them
- How to create a smoke-free zone for themselves
- Smoking is a choice people make
Prepared Graduates in the Prevention and Risk Management standard are:
Apply knowledge and skills to make health-enhancing decisions regarding the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
Healthy Hearts presentation and workbooks discusses the health impacts of:
- Smoking damages the lungs and ages the body
- Video of smoker vs non-smoker pig lungs
- Smoking clogs arteries
- LDL sticks easier, lowers HDL and increases blood pressure
- Cost of smoking
- Activity for what they want to spend that money on instead
- Benefits of quitting, it’s never too late to quit
- E-cigarettes negative effects on the body
- Increases blood pressure, contains heavy metals
Science
Grade Level Expectation
Prepared Graduate Competencies in the Life Science Standard:
2. Life Science
Analyze how various organisms grow, develop, and differentiate during their lifetimes based on an interplay between genetics and their environment
Healthy Hearts program discusses:
- Everyone has different Body Mass Indexes (BMI)
- Genetics
- Importance of family history
- Family history tree activity
- Living a healthy lifestyle as they grow and knowing thier personal health history