Teen Curriculum: Understanding You and PKU

Activities

Muffy's Thanksgiving Dinner
Read a story and discuss "yes" food choices at Thanksgiving dinner.

Thanksgiving Cornucopia
Learn about a cornucopia filled with "yes" foods and have fun making one!

Theodore's Christmas Dinner
Read a story about a mouse who is allergice to green foods. He learns to find "yes" foods at a dinner full of "no" foods. Children learn to pick out the appropriate low-phe foods at special meals.

Trick or Treat Grab Bag
Participants pick a treat from a bag of Halloween treats and decide if it is a "yes" food or a "no" food. If it is a "no" food, they develop an appropriate response to say no.

 

Special Occasions Curriculum for other ages:

 

Have An Active Day

CONCEPT: General Nutrition

 

BRIEF SUMMARY

Participants discuss healthy activity and find ways to add more activity to each day of a week.

 

OBJECTIVES

After completing this activity, children will be able to:

  • state three ways they can build healthful exercise and movement into each day

 

METHODS

Discussion
 Ask the children to name their favorite physical activities. How often do they engage in these activities?

Why is physical activity important? Even with the healthiest diets, we wouldn't be completely healthy without activity.

  • It helps us reach or maintain a desirable weight
  • It helps us avoid heart disease
  • It strengthens our bones, which helps us avoid osteoporosis
  • It helps us get a good night's sleep
  • It helps us feel more energetic
  • It helps us feel good - about the day and about ourselves

Explain that sports and games are important ways to keep fit, but not the only ways. It's possible to build healthful exercise and movement into each day, no matter what we're doing!

Worksheet
Distribute copies of the two handouts. The first handout lists 25 active ideas other than sports and games and asks the children to find new activities they would like to try. The second handout is a chart for scheduling these ideas into one week. Let the children work together to complete "Have Seven Active Days!"

Questions for discussion: What are some other active ideas? How can you be more active at school? At home?

 

MATERIALS

 

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