97819622238934
Middle / Upper Grades
Healthy Eating, Exercise, and Sleep is designed to give students a foundation for building healthy lifestyle habits that will allow them to ensure healthy aging and better relationships with food and exercise throughout their lives. The book focuses on the basic principles of nutrition, energy, the different types of exercise for different purposes, and how eating healthy, exercise, and better sleep can help students prevent disease. Key terms are defined throughout the book to familiarize students with relevant nutritional, exercise, and sleep information.
Activities include:
- Using food labels to determine what is really in foods
- Calculating the Total Daily Energy Expenditure
- Using the principles of energy balance in weight management
- Using MyPlate to build a meal
- Shopping with meal planning and preparation in mind
- Testing physical fitness
- Cardiovascular exercise and resistance training at home
- Practicing mindful yoga movements
- Tracking sleep
- Building bedtime and morning sleep hygiene routines
