grab ~N~ Go health projects
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Welcome to the Grab~N~Go Health Project Depot for GMSD students and staff!
The purpose of this challenge is to complete the 12 Grab~N~Go projects to learn about health, wellness ,and nutrition and how it is important for our overall health and well-being. The 12 challenges are listed below and includes a short description. Links to the challenges are included and provide a step-by-step outline for implementing and completing these projects. These projects are easily adaptable to fit the needs of your students and classroom!
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The Blue Zones Project:
Cultivating Healthier, Happier Student Lifestyles
The Energy Bar Project:
Part 1 & Part 2
Students analyze food packaging health claims by making a trip to the grocery store, taste-testing energy bars, then creating and marketing their own healthy bars, complete with product boxes and a commercial. (This is a new project I tried this year, and my students absolutely loved it!)
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Exploring Dietary Guidelines Around the World (and at Home)
Let’s be real: The FDA’s new dietary guidelines are more confusing than ever. To learn to love real food, rather than fear food data, students will research dietary guidelines from around the world and create a set of guidelines for your school, using journalist Michael Pollan’s Food Rules as an aid.
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A Nutrition PBL That Can Lead to Healthier School Lunch
After watching an inspirational documentary about a group of kids who bettered the lunch options in their school’s cafeteria, students work to make change in their own school with the help of an awesome advocacy kit from DoSomething.org.
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The Family Values Project
Family values play a key role in the decision-making process, and as teens gain more freedom, sticking to those values will help keep them safe from high-risk behaviors. In this project, students have a conversation with their parents to create a list of core values and a mission statement for their family.
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The Alcohol Research Lab
Teaching Kids About E-Cigarettes
An Advocacy Project:
Help Kids Learn About the Benefits of Sleep
Stress Management for Teens
Positive Peer Pressure to Help Stop Bullying
Advocacy Through Art
Using Social Media to Teach Advocacy
So often we focus on the negative when talking to kids about social media, but in reality, they’re using social media to do amazing things to bring about positive social change. In this project, students find an advocacy group on social media that inspires them and present what they learned to the class.
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