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Fiction lovers in grades 3-6 will enjoy the adventures of Lily Robbins as she embarks on a quest to become a "great doctor" after helping an injured little boy.
She starts watching lots of medical shows on TV, checks out tons of health books at the library, and tries to get her Girlz Only Club into fitness plans and nutrition label reading - but will Lily's obsession drive all her friends away?
https://www.amazon.com/Lily-Robbins-M-D-Nancy-Rue/dp/140031951X

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"The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls" by Valorie Lee Schaefer

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"The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls" by Valorie Lee Schaefer

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Girls in grades 4-6 will find this book a fantastic guide to puberty, with facts and advice on how to stay healthy and take care of your body as it grows and changes.
https://www.amazon.com/Care-Keeping-You-American-Library/dp/0613113837

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"Green Smoothie Magic" by Victoria Boutenko

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"Green Smoothie Magic" by Victoria Boutenko

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This story for readers in grades
pre-K to 3rd follows Nic as he learns why vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet, and how he overcomes their gross taste with his mother's magical recipes.
https://www.amazon.com/Green-Smoothie-Magic-Victoria-Boutenko-ebook/dp/B007L9YQ7Q

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"Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys" by Cara Natterson

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"Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys" by Cara Natterson

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Boys in grades 4-6 will find this book a great guide to puberty, with facts and advice from a licensed pediatrician on how to stay healthy and take care of your body as it grows and changes.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074R5GDG3/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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"Following Special Diets" by Beth Bence Reinke

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"Following Special Diets" by Beth Bence Reinke

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This colorful book introduces pre-K to 2nd grade readers to the allergies and special dietary needs that lead to different people eating different foods, with visual aids and leveled text.
https://www.amazon.com/Following-Special-Diets-Bumba-Books-ebook/dp/B07DTGWYP4

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"Happy, Healthy Ajay!" by Stuart J. Murphy

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"Happy, Healthy Ajay!" by Stuart J. Murphy

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This cheerful story follows Ajay as he makes choices on what foods to eat and exercise to do, to feel good and run fast with his friends!
https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Healthy-Ajay-See-Learn/dp/1580894712

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"Miss Fox's Class Shapes Up" by Eileen Spinelli

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"Miss Fox's Class Shapes Up" by Eileen Spinelli

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Learn with the rest of the class as Miss Fox teaches them to eat better, exercise, and get enough sleep to be ready, for Field Day and every day!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JRMXWF2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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"A Gluten-Free Birthday for Me!" by Sue Fliess

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"A Gluten-Free Birthday for Me!" by Sue Fliess

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This book rhymes its way to the perfect recipe for a gluten-free birthday cake, including diet tips for people who can't eat gluten and websites for more information.
https://www.amazon.com/Gluten-Free-Birthday-Me-Sue-Fliess-ebook/dp/B00FJNMB82

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Written by three-term New York City Mayor Ed Koch and his sister, Pat Koch Thaler, this book tells the story of a boy named Eddie who searches for a healthier lifestyle with the help of his family and friends.
https://www.amazon.com/Eddie-Shapes-Up-Ed-Koch/dp/1604783788

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This book will get kids wiggling and twisting, stomping and zig-zagging, hugging and shrugging with rhyming text and labeled illustrations of the body.
https://www.amazon.com/Hop-Jump-Lauren-Thompson-ebook/dp/B007OVCZIS

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"Cool Exercise: Healthy & Fun Ways to Get Your Body Moving" by Colleen Dolphin

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"Cool Exercise: Healthy & Fun Ways to Get Your Body Moving" by Colleen Dolphin

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Readers in grades 3-6 can check out this book's creative ideas and step-by-step instructions for ways to exercise at home, at school, on the road, and with friends.
https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Exercise-Healthy-Moving-Fitness/dp/1617834270

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This text for readers in grades K-3 discusses the various food groups and how eating from each group helps our bodies grow. Includes inquiry prompts, and a glossary and index to teach new words.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SLR71M4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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This book for children grades pre-K to 2nd teaches how to exercise safely, and just why exercise is so important.
https://www.amazon.com/Exercising-Pull-Ahead-Books-Health/dp/082255853X

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"Being Healthy, Feeling Great: Diet" by Angela Royston

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"Being Healthy, Feeling Great: Diet" by Angela Royston

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This book for children grades 4-6 discusses what a true healthy diet is, dispelling myths that can mess with their body image and instead providing facts.
https://www.amazon.com/Diet-Being-Healthy-Feeling-Great/dp/1615323724

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"Being Healthy, Feeling Great: Exercise" by Robyn Hardyman

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"Being Healthy, Feeling Great: Exercise" by Robyn Hardyman

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This book for children grades 4-6 uses simple text and color photographs to explain the ways exercise helps your body stay healthy.
https://www.amazon.com/Exercise-Robyn-Hardyman/dp/0750269200

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"Food as Fuel: Nutrition for Athletes" by Kristin Petrie

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"Food as Fuel: Nutrition for Athletes" by Kristin Petrie

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Young athletes in grades 3-6 will appreciate this helpful guide to eating for energy, loading up on nutrients to grow strong and fast, and avoiding dehydration and eating disorders.
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Fuel-Nutrition-Athletes-Mission/dp/161783081X

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This book for grades 3-5 introduces young readers to various forms of exercise, ranging from swinging on a rope to climbing mountains.
https://www.booksource.com/products/jump--swim--climb__9781776613731.aspx

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Bennett is 13 years old when his life is turned upside down: he goes from eating junk food with his dad while watching baseball games, to living with his health-obsessed Aunt Laura and joining a cross-country track team.
In this novel about struggling with obesity, discover the things you can lose and things you can gain by striving to be healthy.
https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Erin-Fry/dp/1477816682/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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"What the World Eats" by Faith D'Aluisio

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"What the World Eats" by Faith D'Aluisio

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Explore a collection of photographs to learn about 25 different families in 21 different countries around the world, and what each family eats in one week.
https://www.amazon.com/What-World-Eats-Faith-DAluisio/dp/1582462461

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"My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and Fitness" by Pat Thomas

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"My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and Fitness" by Pat Thomas

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In this picture book children are introduced to the basics of what bodies physically require to be healthy, such as exercise and a proper diet.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082LYTH2L/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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What is a healthy diet?

What is the best way to exercise?

What does it mean to be healthy?

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The goal is for the class to fill a board representing the seven days of the week with sets of meals and snacks: 3 meals a day and 2 snacks a day, for a total of 21 meal sets and 14 snacks.

Students will be divided into seven* groups, and each group must choose 11* food items from the books in the text set that all group members agree are healthy to eat. They will receive pictures of their chosen food items to cut out and arrange. Each group will then divide their food choices into 3* sets of meals and 2* snacks – 3 items per meal, 1 item per snack – with each meal and snack being taped to its own colored piece of paper.

The groups will then work together as a class to place each group’s meals and snacks on the board, so that each day represents a balanced diet. Each group must place pictures on three different days, to encourage variety throughout the week.

Throughout this activity, the educator should check in with each group and provide guidance when needed, especially during the final stage when the groups come together as a class.

*These numbers are based on a class size of 21 students.

Groups will select eleven food items they consider healthy from the text set. (cognitive)
Groups will organize their chosen foods into three sets of meals and two snacks using cutout pictures and tape. (affective)

Groups will place their pictures of meal sets and snacks onto at least three different days on the week board. (psychomotor)

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Activity #2: Show and Tell – My Exercise

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Activity #2: Show and Tell – My Exercise

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The goal is for students to become familiar with many forms of exercise, and to learn how to do at least one that is suited to them.

Students will choose one exercise activity from the text set that they can physically perform themselves. It will need to be a simple exercise they can perform in thirty seconds or less; students will sign up on a class signup sheet to ensure no exercise is repeated. Once all the students have read about and practiced their chosen exercise, they will each give a one-minute presentation where they demonstrate their exercise activity and explain why it is a good way to exercise. These show-and-tells should be done together in one class period if possible.

Students will identify one exercise activity they can perform from the text set. (cognitive)
Students will reproduce their chosen exercise as a demonstration in thirty seconds or less. (psychomotor)
Students will recommend their chosen exercise to their classmates in a one-minute presentation. (affective)

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D'Aluisio, F. (2008). What the World Eats. Berkeley, CA: Tricycle Press.

Dolphin, C. (2013). Cool Exercise: Healthy & Fun Ways to Get Your Body Moving. Miamisburg, OH: Checkerboard Books.

Fliess, S. (2015). A Gluten-Free Birthday for Me! Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman & Company.

Fry, E. (2012). Losing It. Las Vegas, NV: Amazon Children's Publishing.

Hardyman, R. (2010). Being Healthy, Feeling Great: Exercise. New York, NY: Power Kids Press.

Koch, E., & Koch Thaler, P. (2011). Eddie Shapes Up. New York, NY: ZAGAT.

Marsico, K. (2015). Eat a Balanced Diet! Ann Arbor, MI: Cherry Lake Publishing.

Mason, M. (2018). Jump, Swing, Climb. Naples, FL: Iversen Publishing.

Murphy, S. J. (2012). Happy, Healthy Ajay! Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.

Natterson, C. (2017). Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys. Middleton, WI: American Girl.

Nelson, R. (2006). Exercising. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Classroom.

Petrie, K. (2012). Food as Fuel: Nutrition for Athletes. Miamisburg, OH: Checkerboard Books.

Reinke, B. B. (2019). Following Special Diets. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Classroom.

Royston, A. (2010). Being Healthy, Feeling Great: Diet. New York, NY: Power Kids Press.

Rue, N. (2012). Lily Robbins, M.D. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc.

Schaefer, V. L. (1998). The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Company Publications.

Spinelli, E. (2011). Miss Fox's Class Shapes Up. Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman & Company.

Thomas, P. (2000). My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and Fitness. Hauppauge, NY: B.E.S. Publishing.

Thompson, L. (2012). Hop, Hop, Jump! New York, NY: Margaret K. McElderry Books.