From the area of physical education can promote practices that help students become aware of the importance of food in their day to day. The importance of this attempt to pass it through the daily sessions in our area and in other educational areas, thus promoting interdisciplinarity with other areas of the education system.
We must be aware that eating healthy habits depends on everyone, not just the physical educator. The family is even more important and this should be the first to work with the children in this regard.
We as educators will conduct a number of strategies or methodologies to help foster and reinforce what parents worked at home. Some tasks or activities that we raise in our classes are:
- Information activities which teach students the food pyramid and the importance that they should have different foods for the student, with particular emphasis on those that we consider healthy like fruit, and rejecting those that are harmful such as the pastries.
Alongside this, we will emphasize the importance of food for health: both for sports and for daily practice, remembering the possible problems caused poor nutrition.
Through games we can work habits. The Fourth International Congress and XXV of Physical Education held in Cordoba presented a number of games that we will quote below:
1. "TULA FOOD"
A child is the left (it will be a "little bit" of excess body fat) and must catch the rest, who must avoid being caught for not having excess body fat. When a child is caught becomes free fat too. Those who are not caught, they will avoid that excess body fat negatively affects health.
This is a task-oriented knowledge by students of the importance of avoiding excess body fat. As previously worked there related concepts and declarative knowledge by children in this regard, we ask questions like, What happens in our body if we "caught" the excess fat, and what diseases are associated with excess of fat? What can we do to avoid excess body fat? What consequences can have on health? These questions also help us to "orient" the task, the students themselves will be in a position that they must flee the excess fat, for example.
2. "MAGIC DISC"
As in the previous game have been affected by excess fat and want to get rid of it, let's do playing with "magic disks".
There will be a circuit with different posts, each of which must have a ring (we can put them on the floor, use the basketball hoops, hang the goals, etc). Teams, each of the components attempt to enter the Frisbee on the ring at the lowest possible number of pitches (attempts will join each of the components in each of the slugs).
The fewer releases do much better, we'll get rid of more fat (always bearing in mind that fat is a nutrient necessary) and will be healthier.
Through this work we want the students, based on what has been learned in other activities, internalize the need for physical activity as one of the control elements of the excess fat and understand the harmful effects it can have on the health. To do this, we ask questions such as What can we do to avoid excess body fat and its impact on health? What physical activities can make to be in good health? What characteristics should perform activities that are healthy?
3. "A GATHERING OF NUTRIENTS"
After explanation of appropriate proportions of each nutrient in addition to the hoops and Frisbees used in the previous game, leave other material for the play area (the rings are carbohydrates, fat discs are the strings and make the times of proteins). Form teams, and the signal must collect as many nutrients as possible (rings, discs and strings) without forgetting the percentages needed to develop a healthy diet. Each of them can pick up a single "nutrient" every time. You can play making computer components go hand in hand.
With this work we intend that children understand the importance of proper nutrition, and thus only able to cover their daily needs and ensure a good development and a better quality of life.
The questions we pose can be oriented in this direction, what are the types of nutrients that can be found in food? What are the functions of each type of nutrients? What are the appropriate percentages of each nutrient you should consume each day? What does carry out a balanced diet in quantity and quality? Are they all equally important nutrients? What nutrients should be taken every day and what not?
4. "I WANT TO 5 A DAY":
After all that physical activity has gone a bit hungry and we will refresh ourselves to continue working and benefit from the positive effects of physical activity on health. For this, we will opt for a very healthy alternative for lunch recess and in general all day taking "5 a day" (in line with the campaign that advocates the daily consumption of at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables).
All children in a circle within a ring, but one that is inside a ring in the center of the circle. Each of the outsiders will have the name of a fruit or vegetable (say 3, 4 or 5, based on other children in the class, so that fruit and vegetables has been repeated). When the master name of these fruits or vegetables, children should have changed the ring, when the center will use to get into one of the rings of the circle. Anyone who spends more than three times the center will not meet the "5 a day" and your diet will be affected.
This task is aimed at learning the importance of eating fruits and vegetables as an essential part of a healthy diet, for its low calorie content and its high content of vitamins, minerals and fiber.
In connection with this task, we can ask questions of the students and what are the fruits and vegetables? What are the fruits and vegetables? Do you think they are important? What are the benefits to health? What are vitamins and minerals?
These activities can help us develop the habits we want to instill in our students healthy habits that will try to convey to our students through the game.
