In our 6th grade health classes, we are currently talking to students about body image. We use a lot of resources to help our students understand that we all come in different shapes, sizes, colors, etc. But nothing is a better example than personal stories. Here’s Oscar winning Lupita Nyong’o speech on Black Beauty and the importance of loving yourself…Inside and out.
This would also be a great addition and example in Media Literacy Lessons.
On Michael Pollen’s webpage he gives some great resources for getting healthy and staying healthy for parents and kids but I think they’re pretty useful for us health teachers! Check it out these Healthy Resources.
Got to add some kind of humor when we’re teaching 7th graders about nutrition. No better combo than Will Ferrel and the First Lady!
In our 7th grade classes we have just begun talking about the importance of nutrition in our lives. To help the students better understand what does healthy eating look like, we are reflecting on lessons we taught in 6th grade geared around the Food Plate and also started using Michael Pollan’s book Food Rules to help them better understand what healthy eating actually looks like.
We are putting students in groups of 2 or 3 and they each get a food rule from Michael Pollan’s book. In their groups they need to research and find valid information helping them create a kid-friendly paragraph about why their food rule is so important. Then they need to create a piece of art displaying their food rule as well. It could be 2-D, 3-D really anything they want to create that represents their food rule! Fun! Here is the a video by Michael Pollen that we used to intro their project…
For more information on this project, see Healthy Choices and Advocacy and go to Food Rules! under 7th Grade Health.
If you want inspiration, here she is. Ebony Nettles-Bay, a high school student and basketball player from Verona, WI has some dreams and goals and she’s not letting her fight with cancer get in her way.
Rick Rilley’s article Ebony is worth meeting, Lebron will make you smile while bringing tears to your eyes. What heart, what admiration, what courage this young lady has. An inspiring example for all of us. Come on LeBron, what do you say?
Do you think students need to be taught how to have empathy? In this blog post by Chad Fowler titled Why Empathy is Your Most Important Skill (and how to practice it) he talks about the importance of empathy in our lives and how learning to use empathy on regular basis makes us better all around people.
In class we’ve been learning about goals and what inspires us to make goals. Here are just a few goal setters we used as examples in class when doing our goal setter project.
Two cleveland wresters excel with odds against them-Good luck not tearing up
The follow-up-Good luck again
Ryan Higa:
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