Grades 1, 2, 3, AND 4

General Health, NUTRITION AND DRUG USE PREVENTION

When children are well-rested, well-nourished, and physically fit, they are more ready to learn. From an early age, children recognize healthy habits and understand why they are important.

HEALTHLAND - 1st Grade (full details) (60 minutes)
Welcome to Healthland, where a 3-D food pyramid illustrates proper nutrition, puppets talk about germs and the importance of hand washing, and where proper rest and exercise are the rule. Healthland teaches students about the body's organs and senses, and emphasizes the basics of staying healthy.

BODY CLUB - 2nd Grade (full details) (60 minutes)
Music, props, and movement make joining the Body Club an active adventure. Students become members by learning about health. An anatomy apron with stick on organs helps teach students where a liver goes and what an intestine does. The 3-D food pyramid makes nutrition a hands-on experience. Club members are also encouraged to use good hygiene and get plenty of sleep.

HEALTH ADVENTURE - 3rd Grade (full details) (85 minutes)
Introduce your students to Oscar, the take-apart man and his friend, Valeda, the transparent talking woman. The two of them and a skeleton give a real lesson in human anatomy that stresses the dynamics of body systems and the different types of cells. As always, we include the role of proper nutrition, exercise and rest.

INCREDIBLE MACHINE – 4th GRADE (full details) (85 minutes)
The body's organs and systems make up one incredible machine. Students will learn about all the moving parts including: the cardiopulmonary and nervous systems. We'll teach them to keep their machines in tune with healthy heart care, good diet, exercise, and by not using drugs and tobacco.

FIT CAMPAIGN – 1^st-2^nd grades  (three 60-minute sessions) (full details)

Do your students know how to make healthy choices about nutrition, exercise, and sleep? Do you want to help them in the battle against childhood obesity? In Robert Crown’s new FIT Campaign, students will learn about obesity and its causes; learn about the Food Pyramid and good nutrition; learn different ways to be physically active and why they should get plenty of sleep. Ultimately, our goal is to increase students’ awareness of how to lead a healthy life and avoid long term illnesses, like Type 2 Diabetes. FIT uses an original cartoon character, Addy, representing a fat cell, to illustrate these concepts, and each FIT session ends with time for the “Addy Dance.”

SCIENCE BEHIND DRUGS AND PREVENTION - 4th Grade (full details)
Kids face tough decisions, especially regarding the issue of drug use.  The newly designed “Science Behind Drugs and Prevention” program helps kids make healthy choices and lead a drug-free life.  Program participants first learn how drugs affect the body systems, especially the brain, which can lead to addiction.  Using statistical data, students next dispel the myth that “everyone is doing drugs.”  Finally, students practice refusal skills which arm them with tools to help them make good decisions regarding drug use.  This interactive program allows kids to utilize touch-screen software, simulate the disorientation of alcohol through special glasses, and actually touch a real pig lung!