I have enjoyed learning about Healthy Living with my students! We watched our video from Meryl and Charlie, then we talked about ways that we could be healthier. Each student then wrote a healthy living goal, something that they could do to live healthier. The students suggested; Drink more water, get more sleep, get more active (walk more steps each day), less sugar and less video games. 
We watched all of the AskListenLearn videos are Kids and Alcohol. They truly loved the videos and some times we would watch them 3-4 times. The kids got obsessed with writing lyrics for the opening song. They all tried to outdo each other with their ideas. One of my favorites. (I am a big Harry Potter fan)
We also spent some time of Kids Health website Learning about making healthy choices. Which led to lots of questions about smoking and tobacco. This is always a hard lesson to teach, because we have so many of our family members that smoke. It is pretty upsetting to students to learn what smoking does to your body. We have two days worth of great discussions and questions about smoking/chew and e-cigarettes.
We were also able to tie in our UNICEF project. Unicef has sponsored a program to help students in America who are NOT getting enough exercise and students across the globe that are malnourished. My students exercise and earn point with their Fit Bits (provided from UNICEF) and their point earn meal packets for kids across the world. We have had several lessons about getting active and also about malnourished countries. 
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