American Heart Month

Cereal Art
Art/Health American Heart Month is a good time to discuss the benefits of grains and cereals in our diets. Cereal can be used in art, too. Provide colored construction paper, glue and a box of cereal "o's" for designing "picture perfect" cereal.

Here's To Your Healthy Heart!
Students will understand about the primary controllable and uncontrollable factors that put one at greater risk for developing heart disease. then student will learn how to make lifestyle choices that will encourage good cardiovascular and general health.

How Does Your Heart Rate?
Student will learn hot to correctly measure their heartbeats (pulse), within a "10 point" range, while doing a physical activity. Student will then demonstrate their understanding of the effects of exercise on the heart through accurately recorded data and multiple descriptions of the effects on the body. Finally they will state one reason why our heartbeat increases with different activities.

Heart healthy lesson plans
Heart Healthy Lesson Plans provide elementary teachers like you with a resource to use with your class, which promotes participation in physical activity. Each plan is tailored for a specific grade, from kindergarten to grade eight, with suitable lessons and activities for kids of all ages.

The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Heart
Students will discover the power of the human heart and how to keep it healthy with these fun learning activities.