Cookies vs Apples

Date: 3/22/2016

Teacher: Maggie Ribick

School: MSU Elementary

Class: KIN 355

Equipment Used: N/A
Grade Level: 1st
Time: 11:10am-11:18am
Targeted NASPE Standard(s): Standard 3 - The physically literate individual
demonstrates the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a healthenhancing level of physical activity and fitness.
Specific Objective: By the end of the lesson, students should understand
what/why some snacks are better than others for your heart (and body overall).
(Answer: healthy foods, like the apple, help to keep your heart healthy and strong.
When your heart is healthy and strong you will be able to complete higher
amounts of exercise, with little stress on your heart. On the other hand, junk food,
like cookies, can make your heart unhealthy. When your heart is unhealthy, it has
to work extra hard to do low amounts of exercise. This means your heart has to
beat much faster to do normal amounts of activity, which can shorten your
lifetime.)
Concomitant Objective: The students will stay physically active while learning
about what foods are better for you and your heart
Time
Procedures Followed
Materials
Warm Up: Lap around the gym
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___30__
seconds

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Seconds

Transition: Have students gather in a straight line on

the green line.

Set Induction:
Raise your hand if you have a favorite snack.
What are some of your favorite unhealthy snacks?
What makes it an unhealthy food?
What are some of your favorite healthy snacks?
What makes it a healthy food?
Attention getter: An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Students demonstrate a safe tag
Learnable Piece: We are going to learn how healthy
__30___ and unhealthy foods affect our physical activity. We will
seconds
learn what helps and hurts our hearts.
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Minute

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Minutes

Presentation of New Material/Directions:

- Students will listen to the instructions while
standing on the green line.
- Safety: turn to your neighbor to model a safe tag.
What does a safe tag look like?
- Check for understanding after giving instructions
(see Activity): give a thumbs up

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- Back to the wall

- Round one: 1s are cookies and 2s are apples
- Round two: 2s are cookies and 1s are apples
Transition: Students count off by 2s. 1s will be our
___10__ cookies (or another junk food they call out). Then 2s will
Seconds
be our apples (or another healthy food they call out). 2
student volunteers will be our doctors
Activity: This activity is a variation of red light green
___3__
light. 2 students will start off in the center of the gym
Minutes
facing the back wall while the rest of the students stand
on a straight line behind them. Students will be divided
into cookies and apples. The doctors will call out how
many bites of a snack they want. The number of bites
equals the number of steps the students have to take
towards the doctors. When the doctor calls out Im full
they turn around and tag the cookies and apples. Since
the cookies make a heart work harder, they have to walk
back to the safety line. Since the apples help the heart,
they can run back to the safety line. Once they are
tagged, the doctor makes them healthy so they can run.
The tagged students now help out the doctors. If time
allows, switch the apples and cookies for a second
round.
Possible Modifications: If we need to make it easier I
will have the apples take large steps to and from the
doctors. Cookies will take small steps to and from the
doctors. To make it harder, cookies could hop away from
doctors while apples can skip away from doctors.
___30__ Lesson Review: Was harder to be a cookie or an
seconds apple? Why? Ask the students to share what they have
learned from the lesson. They learned that nutritious
foods help keep your heart healthy which will allow you
to be more active.
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seconds

Notes:

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