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Healthy Habits

Second graders learn the everyday habits that keep them healthy — eating well, drinking water, sleeping, moving, and keeping clean — and how each one helps their body grow strong and feel good.

Grade 2Personal Health35 minutes1 class periodSHAPE / Skills-BasedExplicit teaching4 StandardsSHAPE
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Name healthy habits.
  • ✓Explain how each helps.
  • ✓Choose healthy choices.
  • ✓Make a habit plan.
Essential Question

What can you do every day to keep your body healthy and strong? There are a few simple habits that make a big difference. What are they?

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Interactive Task
Explore · Interactive

The Healthy Habits Explorer

Project this and tap each habit. Have children learn the everyday habits that keep them healthy.

🍎 Explore healthy habits — tap eachTry it

The Lesson · Health & PE Flow (Warm-Up · Learn · Practice · Apply · Cool-Down)

35 minutes, five moves

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Warm-Up — Staying Healthy

5 min

What can you do every day to keep your body strong?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask about healthy things they do.
  • Set the goal.
  • Get moving.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Share.
  • Think.
  • Get ready.
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Learn — Healthy Habits

8 min

Children learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send children to the Healthy Habits Explorer.
  • Name each habit.
  • Note how it helps.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Tap each.
  • Name them.
  • Note help.
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Practice — Practice

9 min

Children practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Talk about each habit.
  • Sort healthy choices.
  • Give an example.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Talk.
  • Sort.
  • Give one.
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Apply — Apply

8 min

Children apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Make a daily-habit plan.
  • Explain a habit.
  • Pick one to try.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Plan it.
  • Explain.
  • Pick one.
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Cool-Down — Cool-Down

5 min

Children close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a healthy habit.
  • Say how it helps.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Say how.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to SHAPE America National Health Education & Physical Education Standards.

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HE.1

Comprehend concepts about healthy habits.

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HE.7

Practice healthy behaviors.

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HE.5

Use decision-making for healthy choices.

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PE.3

Value activity as part of a healthy life.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Habit picture cards.
  • Sentence frame: “___ keeps me healthy.”
  • Sort habit pictures.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with sleep and water.
  • Use pictures.
  • Focus on one habit.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Make a habit chart.
  • Explain why sleep helps.
  • Track a habit for a week.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🍎Habit pictures
  • 💻The Healthy Habits Explorer
  • 🖍️Crayons
  • 📋A habit chart
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

habitsomething you do regularlyhealthyfeeling good and strongwatera drink your body needssleeprest for your body and brainexercisemoving to stay strongcleanfree from germs and dirtenergythe power to move and playchoicea decision you make
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Name two healthy habits.
Sample: eat well, drink water, sleep, move, or keep clean.
QUESTION 2
Why is sleep a healthy habit?
It helps your body grow and your brain get ready to learn.
QUESTION 3
Name one way to keep clean.
Wash your hands or brush your teeth.

Cool-Down: my habit plan.

Have children pick one healthy habit to practice this week and tell a family member about it. A printable healthy-habits sheet is in the PE & Health library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Healthy HabitsPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: choice, clean, energy, exercise, habit, healthy, sleep, water
  1. rest for your body and brain
  2. a drink your body needs
  3. a decision you make
  4. feeling good and strong
  5. moving to stay strong
  6. something you do regularly
  7. free from germs and dirt
  8. the power to move and play

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Name two healthy habits.
  2. Why is sleep a healthy habit?
  3. Name one way to keep clean.
Answer key — Part A: 1) sleep · 2) water · 3) choice · 4) healthy · 5) exercise · 6) habit · 7) clean · 8) energy
Part B: 1) Sample: eat well, drink water, sleep, move, or keep clean. 2) It helps your body grow and your brain get ready to learn. 3) Wash your hands or brush your teeth.