Bike for Your Life

Students will define physical activity and health-related fitness.  They will identify fun sources of physical activity through a charades game.  They will learn the relationship between physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. 

Duration
Less than 1 hour
Lesson Type
1:1 Lesson

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Essential Question

What activities do you like to do with your friends that keep you physically active and healthy?

Grade(s):

  • Kindergarten
  • 1
  • 2
  • 5

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Recommended Technology:

A projector to show a video
A device for each student or group of students with google drive

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Lesson Progression

Primary Message: Physical activity is important because it helps build strong bones and muscles; and also helps prevent illness.
Secondary Message: Physical activity is fun and can be even more fun with friends

After watching Healthy Hannah’s Healthy Choice Heroes:Bike for Your Life, repeat the question asked by Healthy Hannah: What activities do you like to do with your friends that keep you physically active and healthy? Have kids answer question

Objective 1: Vocabulary Words
Define the following terms: physical activity and health-related fitness

Objective 2: Identify fun sources of physical activity.
Activity: Charades. The teacher describes what physical activity is and gives some examples of fun things that are considered to be physical activity using the Choose My Plate resources. Next the students will play charades, either with the pre-made charade cards or by using the students’ suggestions to make your own charade cards using 3 x 5 index cards. Have the students take turns acting out the physical activities on the cards as the rest of the class tries to guess which physical activity they are acting out.

Objective 3: Describe the link between physical activity and strong bones.
Activity: Brainstorming/Group Discussion. Ask students to name additional fun things that they do to play. As they come up with ideas, write them on the board. Give the benefits of physical activity. Engage the students in the discussion by asking them what they think the benefits of physical activity are.

Objective 4: Describe the relationship between physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
Activity: Fill In the Blanks Google form. The teacher will provide the class information on why physical activity is important using the Choose my Plate web resource (Students can also visit this website to research the importance together). Then the students will individually or with a group fill out the Fill In the Blanks Google Form.

Bike For Your Life | Healthy Hannah

Healthy Hannah shows how biking can be a valuable exercise.

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Physical Activity Student/Teacher Resource

This is a web-link to the USDA choosemyplate.org resource on Physical Activity. Answers questions on what it is, why it is important and how much do you need?

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Charades Cards

Printable list of charade ideas

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Physical Activity Fill-In-The-Blank Google Form

Students can use the word bank provided to fill in the blank to the physical activity sentences provided on this google form.

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