Grow Up Great
Your body works best when it is at a temperature of 98.6 degrees. Your body is comfortable and works well at this temperature. When your body gets hotter than that, your brain does not like it. The part of the brain that controls our body temperature senses that it is too hot and sends a message to our bodies to sweat. Sweating is a great way for our bodies to cool off. Sweat is mostly water. Sweat leaves your skin through tiny holes in your skin called pores. When the sweat hits the air, it evaporates, or dissolves. As the sweat leaves your body, you cool down.
These lessons are aligned with the Common Core State Standards ("CCSS"). The CCSS provide a consistent, clear understanding of the concepts and skills children are expected to learn and guide teachers to provide their students with opportunities to gain these important skills and foundational knowledge.**
Your body works best when it is at a temperature of 98.6 degrees. Your body is comfortable and works well at this temperature. When your body gets hotter than that, your brain does not like it. The part of the brain that controls our body temperature senses that it is too hot and sends a message to our bodies to sweat. Sweating is a great way for our bodies to cool off. Sweat is mostly water. Sweat leaves your skin through tiny holes in your skin called pores. When the sweat hits the air, it evaporates, or dissolves. As the sweat leaves your body, you cool down.
Sweating is normal. The average person has over 2 million sweat glands on their body. Sometimes, when it’s really hot, we sweat a lot and lose a lot of water. It is important for us to drink lots of water to put that water back into our bodies.
- Encourage all children to participate in the physical activity. They could do jumping jacks, dance, or run around the play area. The idea is to get them moving so that they create a little bit of sweat.
- How Does My Body Work? by Charlotte Guillain
- Max Exercises by Guido van Genechten
- Oh the Things You Can Do That Are Good For You: All About Staying Healthy by Tish Rabe
- Skippyjon Jones Shapes Up by Judy Schachner
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There are currently no Common Core Standards for pre-k, but these lessons are aligned as closely as possible to capture the requirements and meet the goals of Common Core Standards. However, these lessons were neither reviewed or approved by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices or the Council of Chief State School Officers, which together are the owners and developers of the Common Core State Standards.
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