Healthy Hedgehogs After School Program

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Healthy Hedgehogs After School Program

By: Sophie Johnson Copyright 2019 by Sophie Johnson under Creative Commons Non-Commercial License. Individuals and organizations may copy, reproduce, distribute, and perform this work and alter or remix this work for non-commercial purposes only

NEBRASKA HONORS PROGRAM CLC EXPANDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITY CLUBS INFORMATION SHEET:

Name of Club: Healthy Hedgehogs 

Age/Grade Level: 2nd - 5th grade 

Number of Attendees: (ideal number) 8 

Goal of the Club: (learning objectives/outcomes) To learn about the body and difference aspects of health including physical, mental and social well-being. Also promoting an overall healthy lifestyle. 

Resources: (Information for club provided by) Previous knowledge and online sources 

Content Areas: (check all that apply) 

  • ☐ Arts (Visual, Music, Theater &Performance) 
  • ☐ Literacy 
  • ☐ STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering &Math) 
  • ☐ Social Studies 
  • ☒ Wellness (Physical Education, Health, Nutrition &Character Education) 

Outputs or final products: (Does the club have a final product/project to showcase to community?) N/A 

Introducing your Club/Activities: This club encouraged healthy behaviors. 

General Directions: Pick a health-related topic each week being sure to review previous lessons. Helps to tie it to previous weeks lesson. 

Tips/Tricks: Use fun activities to wrap up the lesson and increase interest in the topic.

LESSON PLAN WORKSHEET

Lesson Activity Name #1: Introduction to MyPlate

Length of Activity: 50 minutes 

Supplies: 

  • Markers 
  • Paper
  • MyPlate coloring sheet 

Directions: Meet the kids and go over expectations for the club. Ask what the know about health. Discussed physical, social and mental health. Started to focus on nutrition. Introduced the main 5 food groups and MyPlate. Ask for ideas for future activates. 

Conclusion of the activity: Got to know students, got an idea of what they want to do, introduced main idea of club 

Parts of activity that worked: Worksheet and color 

Parts of activity that did not work: Some ideas that I was excited about they were not excited about. 

Lesson Activity Name #2: Valentine’s Day Activity

Length of Activity: 50 minutes 

Supplies: 

  • Snacks
  • Paper 
  • Markers 

Directions: Talk about heart healthy foods. Discuss the importance of being kind and social well-being. 

Conclusion of the activity: Made kindness valentines to give out. 

Parts of activity that worked: Valentines, dark chocolate and almonds (heart healthy snacks) 

Parts of activity that did not work: Lost interest in discussing foods.

Lesson Activity Name #3: Fruits and Vegetables

Length of Activity: 50 minutes 

Supplies: 

  • Glue sticks 
  • Paper 
  • Cut out pictures of various fruits and vegetables 
  • Small prizes 

Directions: Just Dance warm up video. Review MyPlate and then go in depth about fruits and vegetables. Make individual bingo card with fruits and vegetables 

Conclusion of the activity: Made bingo cards and discussed specifics about each fruit or vegetable when the card was drawn 

Parts of activity that worked: Bingo with prizes. 

Parts of activity that did not work: Only one student said bingo wasn’t quite as fun.

Lesson Activity Name #4: Mental Health: Goals and Stress

Length of Activity: 50 minutes 

Supplies: 

  • Paper 
  • Markers 

Directions: Just Dance warmup, review old info, introduce mental health, start with goals why are they important and how to set goals for ourselves, then talked about stress and ways to cope with stress 

Conclusion of the activity: made goal sheets; did yoga, coloring and belly breathing as our stress relief activates 

Parts of activity that worked: coloring 

Parts of activity that did not work: was not interested in yoga

Lesson Activity Name #5: Vitamins

Length of Activity: 50 

Supplies: 

  • Paper
  • Markers 

Directions: Just Dance warm up, review MyPlate, go through PowerPoint about vitamins that includes what they are, give specific information about each vitamin including pictures, drew a rainbow plate including fruits of a variety of colors 

Conclusion of the activity: learned about vitamins, tied in with previous knowledge of MyPlate, made rainbow plates 

Parts of activity that worked: coloring 

Parts of activity that did not work: focusing on the task at hand

Lesson Activity Name #6: Minerals

Length of Activity: 50 minutes 

Supplies: 

  • Papers
  • Markers 

Directions: Just Dance warm up, review MyPlate and vitamins, went through PowerPoint about minerals and how they worked with vitamins 

Conclusion of the activity: Did a matching game involving minerals, vitamins and food groups 

Parts of activity that worked: PowerPoint 

Parts of activity that did not work: matching game was not as organized and little to difficult

Lesson Activity Name #7: Bones

Length of Activity: 50 minutes 

Supplies: 

  • Laptop 
  • Paper 
  • Markers 

Directions: Just Dance warm up, gave quick lesson on bones and tied in minerals and vitamins that we had previously learned. Learned Bone Dance from Hannah Montana show. Drew our own skeleton. Did a bone game found online 

Conclusion of the activity: Learned about importance of bones, how nutrition affects bones and learned the major bones in the body 

Parts of activity that worked: loved online game 

Parts of activity that did not work: remembering names of bones was difficult, better at remembering location if given name.

Lesson Activity Name #8: Muscles and outside games

Length of Activity: 50 minutes 

Supplies: None 

Directions: Just Dance warmup; reviewed old lessons – specifically muscles; short intro to muscles and identified the major muscles; played outside while being aware of what muscles we were using 

Conclusion of the activity: Learned about muscles and how they are used 

Parts of activity that worked: Outside 

Parts of activity that did not work: remembering names of muscles was difficult

Lesson Activity Name #9: Summary of club

Length of Activity: 50 minutes 

Supplies: 

  • Stickers 

Directions: Recall all information we learned throughout the year; discussed favorite and least favorite part of club; played outside 

Conclusion of the activity: Summary of the club 

Parts of activity that worked: Review using incentives (stickers) 

Parts of activity that did not work: specific terms were difficult to remember


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This Portfolio is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors Program at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Expanded Learning Clubs by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Johnson, Sophie, "Healthy Hedgehogs After School Program" (2019). Honors Expanded Learning Clubs. 26. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/honorshelc/26

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