3.11 Healthy Lifestyles Mobile
This is Lesson 3.11 (“Healthy Lifestyles Mobile”) from the National FFA Grow Your PALS Program Guide, part of the Exercise unit. In this large-group mentoring lesson, mentors guide their PALS to create a week-long sleep diary (with Sleep and Energy Meters) to explore how sleep affects daily energy, observe a bone-stress simulation using polarizing filters and a plastic fork to learn how weight-bearing exercise strengthens bones, and build a “Healthy Lifestyles Mobile” to reinforce long-term healthy habits.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe how the number of hours of sleep you get affects how you feel the following day.
- Determine exercises that help strengthen your bones.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes. Also, after a week, a follow-up meeting of approximately 15 minutes should be held to discuss the results of the sleep diary information.
- Materials
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- Box of dry spaghetti, long type
- White poster board – one per student
- Assorted construction paper – one per student
- Markers or crayons – several per student
- Scissors – one per student
- Rulers – one per student
- Gold stars – seven per student
- PALS3.11.LG.TM.A
- PALS3.11.LG.TM.B
- Overhead projector and screen
- Two polarizing filters (or two lenses from an old pair of polarized sunglasses)
- Transparent plastic picnic fork
- Wire clothes hangers – one per student
- Colored yarn
- Seven different colors of poster board or card stock including red or pink
- Paper punch
- PALS3.11.LG.ASSESS.A – one per student
- Unit
- Exercise
- Lesson Type
- Large Group
- Precepts
- G – Physical Growth; G4. Set goals for long-term health
- Key Terms
- Sleep; Weight-bearing exercise
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.02.01.03.c.Evaluate personal lifestyle as related to long-term health.
- NL-ENG.K-12.12Applying Language Skills
- NM-NUM.6-8.1Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships among Numbers, and Number Systems
- NS.5-8.6Science in Personal and Social Perspectives