Healthy Body and Mind

A Design Thinking Unit �created by:

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Kings Park Central School District

K-1 ELLs with Mrs. Ismail

Park View Elementary School

Design Thinking

LAUNCH design thinking cycle found on: https://spencerauthor.com/the-launch-cycle/

Look, Learn, Listen and Ask Questions

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• Introduce topic/idea: Show video Kids! Small Steps to a Healthy You and discuss and ask questions (15 minutes)
• Show pics and discuss and ask questions (15 minutes)
• What do you see?
• What do you think?
• What do you wonder?
• How to help myself, my family, others…..

• What do you see?
• What do you think?
• What do you wonder?
• How can you help yourself, your family, your community?

• What do you see?
• What do you think?
• What do you wonder?
• How can you help yourself, your family, your community?

• What do you see?
• What do you think?
• What do you wonder?
• How can you help yourself, your family, your community?

• What do you see?
• What do you think?
• What do you wonder?
• How can you help yourself, your family, your community?

• What do you see?
• What do you think?
• What do you wonder?
• How can you help yourself, your family, your community?

Look, Learn, Listen and Ask Questions

Picture Sorts(15 minutes) sort healthy vs. unhealthy foods working cooperatively in pairs �on Chromebooks, hard copies and/or flat panel

Student Work and Templates

Look, Learn, Listen and Ask Questions

• Re-introduce the topic and review Healthy and Unhealthy foods from day 1
• Read aloud The Berenstain Bears: Too Much TV and discuss and ask questions (15 minutes)
• What do you see?
• What do you think?
• What do you wonder?
• How to help myself, my family, others…..
• Picture Sorts(15 minutes) sort active vs. sedentary activities

Student Work and Templates

Understand the Problem

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• Research in books/video, observations & personal experiences (obesity, stomach issues after too much candy, dental issues, feeling sad, homesick, mad, frustrated w/lack of English, etc)
• The Berenstain Bears: Too Much Junk Food/Go to Camp - Ep.13 and/or Read Aloud and discuss and ask questions (15 minutes)
• What do you see?
• What do you think?
• What do you wonder?
• How to help myself, my family, others…..
• Shared Write: Brainstorm personal experiences (ie: cavity bc too much candy, my dad ate too much fat/oil so he had heart problems, etc)

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Understand the Problem

Student Work and Templates

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Brainstorm Personal Experiences with Unhealthy Foods:

• I ate too much Halloween candy and then got cavities in my teeth.
• I ate too many cookies and it hurt my belly.
• My sister drank a lot of soda and it hurt her stomach.

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Understand the Problem

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• What do I do when I am angry?
• What do I do when I am sad?
• What do I do when I am scared?
• What do I do when I am mad?
• What do I do when I am upset?

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• Interviews with experts
• Social Worker live/in person interview
• Mood meter review/explanation
• QA: What are some healthy strategies/activities

for when we feel sad, mad, frustrated?

Understand the Problem

How do we know students understand the problem?

Copy of Intro to Coping Skills Preso

Student Work and Templates

Student Work and Templates

Understand the Problem

• Shared Write: Brainstorm personal experiences (ie: miss my grandma so I call her on Whatsapp, don’t know the word in English so I refuse to try but now I should…, etc)
• A certified yoga instructor (Gr. 1 teacher at FS)
• Send her virtual questions in video
• Wait for reply
• Discuss and try her strategies

Student Work and Templates

Understand the Problem

Brainstorm Personal Experiences with Moods and Coping strategies:

• When I get mad because I am not first in line, I can count to ten.
• When I get scared at night, I can think of my favorite cousin.
• When I feel sad when my mom leaves for work, I can listen to music.

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Navigate Ideas and Create

• Brainstorm how to improve these things:
• Write skits, monologues, dialogues, songs/raps, poems
• Bulletin Board to “park” your ideas for whole school and/or classroom
• Flipgrid shared with all classes in PV as an “Interactive Bulletin Board” where other students can share tips for a healthy mind/body

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Student Work and Templates

Rap/Poem

Healthy body and healthy mind

To others and yourself be kind

Veggies and fruits to make your body strong

Turn off that TV and ride a bike or write a song

Yoga and breathing to help you cope

Try your best and never give up hope

Student Work and Templates

Navigate Ideas and Create

Healthier food choices

• Create Menus/Posters/Brochures (hard copies or via Buncee or via Canva) to raise awareness at home and at school: Replace unhealthy snacks with healthy choices after school and as they pack for the next day and during other meals at home; ask mom/dad/family for healthy choices from their culture (mango, papaya, dates, figs, okra, molokhia (Jew’s Mallow), whole wheat pita/tortillas, …)

Student Work and Templates

Student Work and Templates

Navigate Ideas and Create

Navigate Ideas:

• Plan your PSA: Who is it for? students, teachers, parents

Navigate Ideas and Create

• Healthier free time activities
• Create a chart used at home to keep track of physical activity

(ie: walk around the neighborhood and collect pretty leaves, dance, GoNoodle videos, ride bike, yoga, tai chi, zumba, jog/run (in place or in backyard), rake leaves, shovel snow, housework-sweep/mop...

Student Work and Templates

Model and Shared Write

Student Work and Templates

Student Work and Templates

Navigate Ideas and Create

• Healthier free time activities
• Turn sedentary activities into fun physical ones:
• Every time Spongebob says “crabby patty” you have to do 5 jumping jacks
• While Henry Danger is in his superhero costume you have to walk/jog in place
• Match answer cards to problem cards by running back and forth to each set to find the match while you practice your multiplication facts

Student Work and Templates

Navigate Ideas and Create

Highlight and Fix

• Healthier coping skills for feelings
• Create a chart/brochure

(Buncee)/poster showing a feeling and�good/healthy strategies to help you cope

• Create PSAs of how others can make good choices regarding their feelings and reactions

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• Edit/fix ideas above and choose the “best” to launch

Launch to an Audience

• Students read/perform PSAs

(including monologues, music videos, interactive charts)

on PVTV that are televised in the school in the morning to teach their peers these tips

• Hard copies of the charts are available for students after the PSAs
• Link for Blank Work Templates
• Clips of the above are shared with parents and siblings at home
• PSAs and videos are shared with other students to evaluate/ peer assess/ learn from the content

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PSAs –Aired on Park View TV

Live Morning Announcements

PSAs –Aired on Park View TV

Live Morning Announcements

PSAs –Aired on Park View TV

Live Morning Announcements

Student Work and Templates

Student Work and Templates

Student Work and Templates

Student Work and Templates

Thank you for listening!

A Design Thinking Unit

�If you have any questions, feel free to reach out:

ismailr @ kpcsd.org

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