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Teacher’s/Leader’s Guide for ® Fitness is fun! Page 2—What is fitness? Ask students what they know about fitness and how being fit—or not being fit—affects their bodies. Have students draw an outline of a human body and highlight various parts that can benefit from being physically fit and eating healthy foods. Students can use the library or Internet to research the location of body parts, and how being fit and eating healthy foods helps each of them. For example, children could draw lungs and next to them make a short list of activities that help make lungs healthy. Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1b Supports Writing Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.8 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.8 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.8 Page 3—Why be fit? Invite a school nurse to explain how being fit helps the body and how being inactive can hurt it. Ask the nurse if he or she can present some fitness-related statistics. For example, he or she could talk about the average number of hours students spend watching television versus the average number of hours they spend exercising. Have students create logbooks to keep track of their own daily activities. For example, students can track the number of hours they watch television or play video games in one logbook and keep track of the number of hours they spend doing activities that help keep them fit in another. Keep track of both logbooks and help students limit the number of hours they watch television and raise the number of hours they exercise over the course of the year. (Let students know that this activity is not competitive— they should be focused only on their own fitness.) Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.1b,c CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1b,c CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.3 Supports Writing Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.7 The activities below can help reinforce the material in this Know What? ® workbook when used in the classroom. Many are experiential, helping students work together to better understand issues related to fitness and to improve skills needed for success in school and life. You can also use these activities to help students meet select Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS.ELA). Correlations to specific standards are listed below each activity. Visit www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy to learn more. Please read: Talk to a health-care provider! This guide is not a substitute for the advice of a qualified health-care provider. Follow your organization’s policies and regulations (for example, those that apply to parental notification and consent) when using these activities. 2014 Edition ©2004 Channing Bete Company, Inc. All rights reserved. (05-14-A) Channing Bete Company, One Community Place, South Deerfield, MA 01373 • 20D-0107 To reorder call (800) 628-7733 or visit www.channing-bete.com and ask for item number PS92978 C O M P A N Y Channin ®