Healthy Habits Lesson Plans for First Grade
Teaching first and second grade is not only about teaching students how to read and write. In addition to the academic aspect of education, your role as a first or second grade teacher is to also help your students establish social skills and other personal practices.
One important topic to teach early elementary students about are healthy habits. This includes healthy habits like washing their hands and exercise. Teaching students these habits early on helps them to establish healthy personal practices that impact their social experiences.
Healthy habits lessons plans for first grade are important for all students, regardless of what they may also learn at home. Teaching healthy habits at school allows all students access to these important practices.
Our favorite way to teach first graders about healthy habits is through a learning quest! Learning quests are designed to help students become independent learners, and what better way to teach students how to create habits than through encouraging them to be in charge of their own learning! Check out this blog if you want to read more about our amazing learning quests or click on the button below to try a learning quest for FREE!
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Lesson Plans for Health Education
Our Healthy Habits Learning Quest is a research unit that guides students through independent learning. It includes several activities that not only teach students what healthy habits are, but also cover several core standards!
Even though students will be working hard on covering core standards, they will also be having fun! As former first grade teachers, we know that one of the most important elements in education is student engagement. Therefore, engagement was a priority when we created these lesson plans for health education.
Your students are sure to be engaged throughout the unit and learning the entire time!
Comprehension Lesson Plans for First and Second Graders
All of our learning quest activities are designed to help students develop listening, reading, and writing comprehension skills. Students demonstrate their understanding in these areas through several different activities. The best part? All activities are fully planned out and ready to teach!
In the Healthy Habits unit, students listen to or read the texts, complete interactive activities, watch a video clip, write in response to learning, and submit answers to a quiz. Check out a quick preview below.
- Healthy Habits focus Activity
- Informational texts with pre-recorded audio that can be read aloud to students
- Note catchers to guide students in taking effective notes
- Healthy vs. Unhealthy Habits matching activity with moveable pieces
- Cause and Effect activity with moveable pieces
- How to Wash Your Hands Infographic and matching
- Healthy Habits Vocabulary
- Healthy Habits Video with a link to YouTube)
- Writing Responses
- Healthy Habits Quiz
The specifics above are for the digital version. However, this unit also comes in a printable! Same research and same activities, just with printed activities. We know every teacher and classroom is different. So, we want you to choose what works best for you and your students!
Teaching students about basic hygiene and how to create healthy habits is one of the first lessons they have in health education. Help them have a memorable learning experience, and remember these important skills, with these hands-on activities!
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