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Name of Activity:
Healthy Field Day
Purpose of Activity:
To have a field day that incorporates cooperation, learning, and integrates the practical living goals of Kentucky's Core Content.Suggested Grade Level:
K-5Materials Needed:
Depends on the stations you have.Description of Idea
A Healthy Field Day is a school-wide field day
that incorporates the practical living goals of the
Kentucky's Core Content. Classes participate in 10 health
related stations.
The students were paired so that older classes worked with the younger classes. The older students behaved
very responsibly and the young students were very
attentive to their new friend.
In addition, we had three guest speakers who were from the educational staff at our local hospital--a doctor and a nutritionist.
The events were held
in the gym, library, lunchroom, and outside. Parent
volunteers worked all of the events. The events began with a
mini-lesson on a health related issue. There was some
discussion and then the activity began.
Here are descriptions of some of our Healthy Field Day Events.
1. Circulatory System Obstacle Course Mini Lesson
- Food and oxygen are
carried by blood through your circulatory system to
every cell in your body. Blood moves nutrients
throughout your body, fight infection, and helps control your
body temperature. Your blood is mostly made up of
watery liquid called plasma. The blood travels through
your veins, arteries and capillaries.
Where is the
muscle that pumps your blood throughout your
body?
Event Directions - The students go one at time through
the obstacle course beginning with an army crawl under
bands, over a mat, and through and series of hula hoops
to the end where they will try to throw a ring on the
top of a cone. (Three tries)
2. Couch Potato Mini
Lesson - Being active every day is important for your
overall health. Physical activity helps you maintain a
healthful weight and strengthens your body systems.
What
are some of your body systems? (Skeletal, Muscular,
Digestive, Circulatory, Respiratory, & Nervous systems). You
should exercise at least how many times a week? (At least
three times a week for thirty minutes). Aerobic
activities are exercises that cause deep breathing and a fast
heart rate. Because your heart is a muscle it gets
stronger with exercise. Exercise also allows your lungs to
hold more air. With a strong heart and lungs your
cells get oxygen faster and your body works more
efficiently.
Event Directions - This is a tag game in which one student stands
in the middle of a designated space. He/she is the
"Couch potato." He/she tries to tag the other students as
they walk in a straight line from one side of the space
to the other side. When a student is tagged, the person in the middle also
becomes a couch potato. The game is played until all of
the students have been tagged. If there is time the game
may be played again. Remember, the students must walk
in a straight line. Be aware of students who do
not stay with their buddy and get too competitive.
The purpose is to show
how easy it can be to become a couch potato.
3. Tin Can Ice Cream-The Nutritionist
4. Brush Your
teeth Mini Lesson - Here’s a riddle. You talk with them.
You eat with them. They are small, sharp, and white.
Can you guess what they are? They are your teeth.
Caring for your teeth helps you stay healthy and look
your best. If you take care of your teeth, they will
last your whole life. You use your teeth to chew your
food. Chewing is one of their main functions. Leftover
pieces of food on your teeth can cause bacteria on your
teeth or plaque. The bacteria in plaque can cause
cavities. Brushing after each meal will help prevent
cavities. To remove plaque between your teeth, you need to
floss.
Event Directions - Students will form 6 equal lines. On the GO signal the first
student will run down
to the supply box and get a
toothbrush and lay it on the picture of the teeth. Then he/she
will tag the next student. Then, that student will go
to the box and get the toothpaste. The event
continues as followed. (Toothbrush, toothpaste, cup, water,
towel, mouth rinse, and dental floss) The team that gets
all the supplies first wins the event!
5. A Balanced
Meal
Mini-Lesson - A Food Guide Pyramid is a tool that
can help you have a healthful
diet. The Food Guide
Pyramid divides foods into groups. It tells you how many
servings you should eat from each food group each day. It
can help you to choose a healthy balance of foods. It
reminds you not to eat too many unhealthy foods. By using
the Food Pyramid, you can be sure to get a balanced
diet.
Event Directions - Students will form 6 equal lines. On GO the first student
and their buddy in each line will walk with their
lunch tray to the center circle of plastic foods. They
will choose a food from the Food Guide Pyramid. After
choosing their food and placing it on the tray, they hand
the tray to the second student and buddy. The event
continues in this way until the team has a food from each
group on the Food Guide Pyramid. If a student drops a
food, that food must be returned to the circle. The
first team to complete the balance sits down. Then they
will explain the foods and what group they are from and
how they have built a balanced meal.
6. Hospital Exhibit
7. Chicken Fat
Mini Lesson - Suppose you eat lots of fatty
foods. Fats can stick to you artery walls. Then it is
harder for blood to flow through arteries. Your heart has
to work very hard to pump the blood through your
arteries. Some foods with fat are better for your health
than others. Fats that stick to your artery walls are
in foods that come from animals. Some examples are
meat, milk, butter, ice cream and cheese. Some fats that
stick to your artery walls come from vegetable fat.
Limit the amount of foods you eat from animals. Eat
low-fat foods when you can. Drink skim milk and eat low-fat
ice cream and yogurt.
Event Directions - The students will
perform the movements to "The Chicken Fat" song.
8. Your
Fragile Body
Mini Lesson - Your body is very fragile. You
must take safety precautions to protect your body from
injury. Can you think of a safety precaution you can use
to prevent?
your body from be injured on a bike? Or
a Skateboard? What about in a car? Wearing a safety
belt in a car will help to keep you from being forced
against the inside of the car or from being throw from the
car in the event of a car crash.
Event Directions – The
students will be divided into 6 teams. One half of the
team will form a line opposite ends of the field. Each
team will be given an egg, a large spoon and a rubber
band. On go, the first person on each team will take the
rubber band and wrap it around the egg. Then they will
walk their egg to the other end of the field and hand
off to their teammate. The relay continues until all
the students have taken their egg on a ride. If a team
breaks their egg, they will continue the race without an
egg.
9. Your Bones
10. Take Care of
Me
Mini Lesson - Each of us is different, and yet we are
all the same in some ways. We all have needs. A need
is something we must have in order to be healthy. The
physical, mental, emotional, and social needs we all share
are called our basic needs. Can you think of some
basic needs you have? Individuals have a responsibility
in our families to help ours meet their basic needs.
Can you care for someone who is younger than you?
How?
Event Directions - The student and buddy will choose one stuffed animal
to use as a model of a baby. In the center of the
space there will be a stack of cards with directions on
their baby’s feelings and what to do to make them feel
better. Example: Your child has just fell on the driveway
and cut his knee. Go to the first aid kit and make him
feel better. Then the student would go to the first aid
kit and bandage the baby’s knee. This activity
continues for about 10 minutes.

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