2. Goal: Recognize the importance of healthy decisions for children
Learn about resources that can help to support healthy habits
Identify strategies for integrating physical activity, nutrition education and healthful practices into your classroom

3. Activity

4. Examine these pictures.
Select one.

5. Stand in the corresponding corner of the room. When you get there,
introduce yourself to others.
Tell why you chose
that picture.

7. What does the research say?
Mingle and Mix
Mingle:
In your group, read and discuss the information on your sheet.
Be sure that each person can summarize the information.
Find an error in one of these statements.

8. What does the research say?
Mix
Tear your quote into pieces so each person has a piece.
At the signal, circulate and find a partner with a different color paper and discuss both of your quotes. Switch pieces.
Find an error in one of these statements.

9. What does the research say?
Switch pieces with a new person.
Find the people who have the rest of your document and put it together.
Read it as a group and discuss your thoughts.
Find an error in one of these statements.

10. Wellness is more than just being healthy.
An important foundation of helping children become health-literate is teaching them about wellness.
Wellness is more than just being healthy.
What is Wellness?

11. Wellness is more than just being healthy.
An important foundation of helping children become health-literate is teaching them about wellness.
Wellness is more than just being healthy.
What is Wellness?
With a partner, brainstorm a list of words that describe “wellness.”
Type your responses onto the answer garden page (using less than 20 characters for each response). This will create a word cloud, where the most popular responses are the largest.
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12. Wellness is more than just being healthy.
An important foundation of helping children become health-literate is teaching them about wellness.
Wellness is more than just being healthy.
What is Wellness?
It is the active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life.

13. Building a Foundation Explain that there are 3 aspects of wellness.
This activity can be done with STUDENT involvement. If students are present, the groups can be comprised of 4 people (students and teachers mixed together). [See directions in outline.]
Explain that there are 3 aspects of wellness.
What are some actions and behaviors that YOU DO to address these areas of wellness in your own life? Have students draw pictures around their triangle to show examples of physical, social, and emotional wellness.

14. Explain that there are 3 aspects of wellness.
Chat: What are some actions and behaviors that YOU DO to address these areas of wellness in your own life?

15. Explain that there are 3 aspects of wellness.
Chat: What are some actions and behaviors that YOU DO to address these areas of wellness in your own life?

16. With your group, make a list of the ways that you address the specific aspect of wellness with your students in your classroom now. (Lists can be written on poster paper and hung around the room for everyone to see.) As you learn about the Together Counts Program, you will gain ways to address these aspects of your students’ wellness.
How do you currently address these aspects of wellness with your students?

17. Groups share out their list of strategies for each area.

18. The Together Counts™ Curriculum empowers teachers with the tools
to help their students
lead healthy and active lifestyles.
The lessons focus on
the fundamentals of overall wellness,
teaching kids to make healthy decisions
that foster healthy habits
throughout their lives.
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19. Lesson Objectives Instant Expert Each lesson includes:
Walk through architecture of the lessons (all have the same organization)
Lesson objectives: details learning goals for each lesson
Instant Expert: provides background to get teachers quickly up to speed
Procedure: gives step-by-step direction to teachers to implement the lesson
You Decide: reinforces key concepts around decision-making. These activities can be integrated into the lesson or serve as an extension
Family Extension: provides ways to extend the learning to the home
Community Extension: provides ideas to engage the school community
Activity Sheets: includes materials that support the lesson procedure
Each
lesson
includes:
Lesson Objectives
Instant Expert

20. Procedure You Decide Each lesson includes: www.TogetherCounts.com
Walk through architecture of the lessons (all have the same organization)
Lesson objectives: details learning goals for each lesson
Instant Expert: provides background to get teachers quickly up to speed
Procedure: gives step-by-step direction to teachers to implement the lesson
You Decide: reinforces key concepts around decision-making. These activities can be integrated into the lesson or serve as an extension
Family Extension: provides ways to extend the learning to the home
Community Extension: provides ideas to engage the school community
Activity Sheets: includes materials that support the lesson procedure
Each
lesson
includes:
Procedure
You Decide

21. Family Extension Community Extension Each lesson includes:
Family Walk through architecture of the lessons (all have the same organization)
Lesson objectives: details learning goals for each lesson
Instant Expert: provides background to get teachers quickly up to speed
Procedure: gives step-by-step direction to teachers to implement the lesson
You Decide: reinforces key concepts around decision-making. These activities can be integrated into the lesson or serve as an extension
Family Extension: provides ways to extend the learning to the home
Community Extension: provides ideas to engage the school community
Activity Sheets: includes materials that support the lesson procedure
Each
lesson
includes:
Family Extension
Community Extension

22. Activity Sheets Each lesson includes: www.TogetherCounts.com
Family Walk through architecture of the lessons (all have the same organization)
Lesson objectives: details learning goals for each lesson
Instant Expert: provides background to get teachers quickly up to speed
Procedure: gives step-by-step direction to teachers to implement the lesson
You Decide: reinforces key concepts around decision-making. These activities can be integrated into the lesson or serve as an extension
Family Extension: provides ways to extend the learning to the home
Community Extension: provides ideas to engage the school community
Activity Sheets: includes materials that support the lesson procedure
Each
lesson
includes:
Activity Sheets

24. Learn Together Eat Together Play Together www.TogetherCounts.com
Students learn about physical, social, and emotional wellness. They discover how decision making and goal setting can help maintain balance in their lives.
Learn
Together
These are the three sections of the Together Counts Program. We’ll look into each one separately to identify integration strategies.
Students are introduced to the key elements of healthy eating patterns. They learn about the different food groups and the importance of getting a balance from them every day.
Eat
Together
Students learn about the importance of physical activity to their overall wellness. They develop action plans and learn how to overcome common obstacles to being active daily.
Play Together

25. Examine the lessons
Plan
Connect
Inspect

26. Where do these exist in your current curriculum?
Students learn about physical, social, and emotional wellness. They discover how decision making and goal setting can help maintain balance in their lives.
THEMES: Wellness, Decision-Making, Goal-Setting
Learn
Together
Connect
Where do these exist in your current curriculum?
Literacy Science Social Studies
Math Health/PE - Other

27. Learn Together Inspect www.TogetherCounts.com
Students learn about physical, social, and emotional wellness. They discover how decision making and goal setting can help maintain balance in their lives.
THEMES: Wellness, Decision-Making, Goal-Setting
Learn
Together
Inspect

28. When and how can you teach these lessons
Students learn about physical, social, and emotional wellness. They discover how decision making and goal setting can help maintain balance in their lives.
THEMES: Wellness, Decision-Making, Goal-Setting
Learn
Together
Plan
When and how can you teach these lessons
to your students?

29. Where do these exist in your current curriculum?
Students are introduced to the key elements of healthy eating patterns. They learn about the different food groups and the importance of getting a balance from them every day.
THEMES: Patterns, Nutrition, Food
Eat
Together
Connect
Where do these exist in your current curriculum?
Literacy Science Social Studies
Math Health/PE - Other

30. Eat Together Inspect www.TogetherCounts.com
Students are introduced to the key elements of healthy eating patterns. They learn about the different food groups and the importance of getting a balance from them every day.
THEMES: Patterns, Nutrition, Food
Eat
Together
Inspect

31. When and how can you teach these lessons
Students are introduced to the key elements of healthy eating patterns. They learn about the different food groups and the importance of getting a balance from them every day.
THEMES: Patterns, Nutrition, Food
Eat
Together
Plan
When and how can you teach these lessons
to your students?

32. Where do these exist in your current curriculum?
Students learn about the importance of physical activity to their overall wellness. They develop action plans and learn how to overcome common obstacles to being active daily.
THEMES: Activity, Movement, Exercise
Play
Together
Connect
Where do these exist in your current curriculum?
Literacy Science Social Studies
Math Health/PE - Other

33. Play Together Inspect www.TogetherCounts.com
Students learn about the importance of physical activity to their overall wellness. They develop action plans and learn how to overcome common obstacles to being active daily.
THEMES: Activity, Movement, Exercise
Play
Together
Inspect

34. When and how can you teach these lessons
Students learn about the importance of physical activity to their overall wellness. They develop action plans and learn how to overcome common obstacles to being active daily.
THEMES: Activity, Movement, Exercise
Play
Together
Plan
When and how can you teach these lessons
to your students?

35. Recognize the importance of healthy behaviors for children
Goals:
Recognize the importance of healthy behaviors for children
Learn about resources that can help to support healthy behaviors
Identify strategies for integrating physical activity, nutrition education and healthful practices into your classroom
Reflection – what did you learn today that will impact your teaching?