Health · Week 7 · Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Personal Health
Why I Reach for That Snack
Students sort the internal and external influences behind an imagined teen's food choices across a day and notice how mood, hunger, and surroundings shape eating.
- Students will
- Students evaluate internal and external influences that affect food choices by analyzing an imagined teen's day of eating.
- SEL skill
- Notice how feelings and energy influence food choices
- What it looks like
- Students recognize how emotions, energy, and surroundings can influence choices and practice noticing those signals.
- Content focus
- Internal and external influences on food choices
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they shape what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 2.1.N: Nutrition and Physical Activity, Standard 2 (Analyzing Health Influences), item 2.1.N
- Student page: Health journal page
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 2: Analyzing Health Influences
More self-awareness activities for Health
- The Weather Inside Self-awarenessStudents use a weather report metaphor to sort an imagined student's stressors into home, school, and peer categories and name the feelings each one might bring.
- Safe Moves Playbook Self-awarenessStudents notice the feelings that can lead to risky choices in sports, social events, and cars, then build a playbook of injury prevention moves for each setting.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.