Hailey Russell, Jaci Sherer, and Janine Trotter

 

Selecting Integrated Literature Sources

 

Fiction Book

Title: The Busy Body Book: A Kid’s Guide to Fitness by Lizzy Rockwell

Author: Lizzy Rockwell

Date of Publication: July 8th, 2008

Publisher: Dragonfly Books

 

The Busy Body Book: A Kid’s Guide to Fitness

Description and Reason for Choosing:

• This book is all about physical activity as well as how the body works. Rockwell is able connect physical idea to great understandable information about how the body works. This information makes being active more relatable and personal. She gives student friendly diagrams of the body and explains different parts of the body and their functions. This book is encouraging for students and does a good job at providing them with useful information. This book can be read over and over again during a physical activity unit, or throughout the year to emphasize different functions of the body. Students will get a lot of information, so more than one read-through is recommended. There is also a read-aloud by a student here that other students can listen to. Students will be inspired to use their bodies the way they are intended to be used. When they know that each part of their body has a function and staying active helps their body perform, then they will be more willing to get physical activity every day.

 

NHES Standards Applicable:

 

• NHES 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

 

• • 1.5.1 Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
  • 1.5.3 Describe ways in which a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.
• NHES 4: Students will Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • 4.5.3 Demonstrate non-violent strategies to manage or resolve conflict.
  • 4.5.4 Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.
• NHES 7: Students will Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • 7.5.2 Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.
  • 7.5.3 Demonstrate a variety of behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.
• NHES 8: Students will Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.
  • Grades: 3-5 8.5.2 Encourage others to make positive health choices.

 

Health Behavior Outcomes:

• HBO 1: Engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity for at least 60 minutes every day.
• HBO 2: Regularly engage in physical activities that enhance cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscle endurance, and muscle strength.
• HBO 3: Engage in warm-up and cool-down activities before and after structured exercise.
• HBO 5: Follow a physical activity plan for healthy growth and development.
• HBO 6: Avoid injury during physical activity.
• HBO 7: Support others to be physically active.

 

Comparison to other Books:

 

• My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and Fitness by Pat Thomas is all about keeping your body healthy. There is a small emphasis on physical fitness, but this book is just a bit more vague than The Busy Book. This book, however, does have some really important points about your overall health and would be a good introduction book for students. Here is a read aloud of this book.

• Looking After Me by Liz Gogerly is a book about a grandmother and her grandchildren. She tells them stories about how she used to stay fit. Then they get up and go do active things together. This is a nice book to encourage students, but it is lacking some of the factual elements that The Busy Book has.

• Get Up and Go: Being Active by Amanda Doering Tourville is a book that has many great examples of children being physically active, however it is definitely for younger readers. A book like this would be a good starter book for kindergartners or first graders.

 

 

Core Integration:

This book would be great to connect with a variety of science lessons about the body; both anatomy and skeletal. Students can use this book as a reference for what bones are in the body, what they do, and why we need them. They can also do this with the different types of organs, nerves, and blood vessels. It also talks about what the body needs in order to survive, which is directly stated in the fourth grade science standards. This book can be a good starting point for students to begin learning about what is inside of their bodies and what it needs. A possible extension would be to have students fill out diagrams with the names of the different bones, organs, etc and explain what they do.

 

Common Core Standards:

4-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

4-LS1-2 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

 

Non-Fiction Book

Title: National Geographic Kids Get Outside Guide: All Things Adventure, Exploration, and Fun

Author: Nancy Honovich

Date of Publication: April 22, 2014

Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books

 

National Geographic Kids Get Outside Guide

Description and Reason for Choosing: This book gives children many different ways to explore the outdoors and get physically active in an exciting way. There are facts about nature and the world around us, there are activities that the students can do like building a paper boat. There are tips on how to safely explore outside more. This book is filled with important information for students that they can share with their parents and friends. This will encourage students to get off of their technology for a good chunk of their day and explore the outdoors. This book could be used to promote healthy and safe ways to get exercise. This book would probably be best used assigned to students to read individually on their own terms so that they can explore the features of this book on their own. However, there are certain parts of the book that can be used as part of a bigger overarching lesson. For example, a unit about forests could use the forest section of this book to highlight some important information about forests as well as encourage students to go and explore the outdoors. This can relate lessons to the students lives.

 

NHES Standards Applicable:

• NHES 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
  • 1.5.1 Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
  • 1.5.3 Describe ways in which a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.
  • 1.5.4 Describe ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems.
• NHES 2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology and other factors on health behaviors.
  • 2.5.1 Describe how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors.
  • 2.5.3 Identify how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
  • 2.5.4 Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors.
  • 2.5.4 Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors.
• NHES 4: Students will Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • 4.5.3 Demonstrate non-violent strategies to manage or resolve conflict.
  • 4.5.4 Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.
• NHES 5: Students will Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
  • Grades: 3-5 5.5.3 List healthy options to health related issues or problems.
• NHES 7: Students will Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • 7.5.2 Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.
  • 7.5.3 Demonstrate a variety of behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.
• NHES 8: Students will Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.
  • Grades: 3-5 8.5.2 Encourage others to make positive health choices.

Health Behavior Outcomes:

• HBO 1: Engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity for at least 60 minutes every day.
• HBO 2: Regularly engage in physical activities that enhance cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscle endurance, and muscle strength.
• HBO 4: Drink plenty of water before, during, and after physical activity.
• HBO 5: Follow a physical activity plan for healthy growth and development.
• HBO 7: Support others to be physically active.

Comparison to Other Books:

 

• Exercising by Robin Nelson is a book all about exercising for children, it may be a bit young for the age group that we are choosing to consider.

• Health, Wellness, and Physical Fitness by Don Blattner is a book that is all about the decisions that we make as individuals and how they affect our wellness. However, this book deals with things like drugs and tobacco, so it may be a bit too old for fourth graders.

• Keeping Fit by Emily K. Green is a book that outlines different ways to stay physically fit, but focuses more on exercising in terms of sports and does not give many more options for students.

• Exercise and Your Health by Jillian Powell is about various different exercises for strength, stamina, etc, and the benefits from exercising.

 

 

Core Integration:

This is a great book to follow up with any science lesson about the Growth and Development of our ecosystem. This book is a great reference for teaching kids different activities they can do outside, and why it is important to be physically active. It shows many benefits as to why being outdoors is good for your physical health and the many benefits of physical activity. It also provides a great reminder as to how being outside allows us to take in all the adventure. Some examples of physical activities could be playing tag outside or making a relay race in the forest. This book highlights the benefits of these activities such as reducing risk of diseases and cancer, strengthening your bones and muscles, and overall improving your mental health and mood. A great lesson following this book could be about a tree’s life cycle. After reading about Deciduous forests in this book, students can be taken outside with their teacher on a walk through their local park, examining the trees above them. Once they make their observations, the teacher can make a lesson about what the life cycle of trees can be through movement. The students would then act out with their body, what it looks like to be a tree growing through the different phases. Students could then relate how important being physically active is for themselves. Teachers can relate this to how important a tree’s life is, and how trees just like humans, need to stay active in order to grow. Student’s will also be reminded of the benefits of being physically active outside.

 

Common Core Standards:

• 3-LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
  • Reproduction is essential to the continued existence of every kind of organism. Plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles.
• 3-LS3.A: Inheritance of Traits
  • Many characteristics of organisms are inherited from their parents.
  • Other characteristics result from individuals’ interactions with the environment, which can range from diet to learning. Many characteristics involve both inheritance and environment.
• 3-LS3.B: Variation of Traits
  • Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information.
  • The environment also affects the traits that an organism develops.