• Point out ways in which people are unique and in turn, get a sense that they, too, are special.
• Identify various health foods.
• Identify ways to prevent communicable disease.
• Demonstrate the benefits of exercise and discuss types of exercise that they may do on a regular basis.

Suggested Classroom Activities:

1. Build-A-Bug 

• Egg crates, paper towel tubes or clay (for body)
• Pipe cleaners or popsicle sticks (for legs and antennae)
• Paint and brushes or markers
• Fuzzy pom-pom balls or googly eyes (for eyes)
• Tissue paper (for wings)
• Glue

• Set up stations with the above materials.  If using egg crates or paper towel tubes, poke holes for the legs, wings, and antennae before the students arrive.  Remember that  in an insect the six legs are all on the thorax, and the two antennae are on the head!
• Tell the students they are each going to design their own new insect.  Each insect must have 3 body parts: a head, thorax, and abdomen. The insect must also have 2 antennae, 6 legs, and if they choose 4 wings.
• Ask the students to describe where their insects: where they live; whether or not they use camouflage; whether they fly, jump, or “walk;” what they eat, etc.
• Discuss the variety of insects that exist, and the variety of places they can live.  There are over 1 million species of insects that live in every habitat (mountains, underground caves, deserts, rivers, fields, forests, etc.) except the middle of the ocean!

• One of the benefits of this game is that you can play with huge numbers of people (100+), and it's still fun.  The downside is that you need at least 20 to make it really fun.
• Everyone starts as an egg and makes the egg sound, "wobble wobble" while wadling around crouched down like baseball catchers.  An egg finds another egg to play "rock, paper, scissors" (RPS).
• The winner of the RPS game moves up to be a larva (or caterpillar). Larva walk around chanting, "chomp chomp," with their hands moving up and down as if they were incisors.  The loser stays as an egg as that is the lowest category you can go.
• The larva find other larva to play RPS with. The loser moves back down to an egg and the winner becomes a pupa (or chrysalis). Pupa hop around all straight and goofy chanting "metamorphosis" (since this is where the big change in body shape occurs).  
• Pupas find other pupas to play RPS with. The loser goes back to larva but the winner becomes a butterfly.
• Butterflies fly around and say "slurp" to mimic drinking nectar from flowers. Butterflies try to find other butterfies to play RPS with. The loser goes back to the pupa stage, and the winner becomes a supreme being.
• Supreme Beings stand off to the side and sing the Supreme Song "Stop in the Name of Love before you break my heart, think it over......" They sing that over and over to the other players.  
• Two Notes: 1. You can never go a phase lower than an egg. 2. You only play RPS with players that are at the same stage as you, hence the need to make the noises and hand motions.