Fueling and Maintaining the Body: Health Unit 1, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Fueling and Maintaining the Body is Unit 1 of Health for Middle School (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Health course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 54 pages.

• Macronutrient categories (carbohydrate, protein, fat) and their bodily functions
• Nutrition label structure (serving size, nutrient amount, percent daily value)
• Nutrition label structure (serving size, nutrient amount, percent daily value)
• Circadian rhythm and the effect of sleep timing on alertness
• Screen-use displacement of sleep via circadian disruption
• Distribution of physical activity across a week versus massed activity events
• Pathogen transmission chains and the interrupting function of specific hygiene habits
• Cross-domain connections among food, sleep, screen, and activity habits and their underlying bodily mechanisms
• Restriction-and-appearance framing versus function framing of nutrition and sleep claims

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.