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Introduction to how small habits can change your health. Student will
watch the ted talk.
The lesson fits into the health teaching component.
Personal, social and community health
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
Health promotion
Critically analyse and apply health information from a range of sources
to health decisions and situations (ACPPS095)
Literacy, critical and creative thinking and personal and social
capability.
How can you make small habit changes to your life to improve your
health and promote being active for life?

10
50 minutes
Affective
1. Students will have more self-efficacy in their ability to create habits

See the following website for

assistance if required:
http://www.nwlink.com/~donc
lark/hrd/bloom.html

Cognitive
2. Students will develop understanding of how habits work.

Psycho-motor
3. Students will be able establish their own habits

Management Strategies (Behaviour and Safety)

Safety:
Ensure that the classroom is a safe environment where students are brave enough to share their work.
Have strategies in place from early in the year.
Behaviour:
Having an older year group class should know what is expected of them, provide reinforcement when they
push the boundaries.
Equipment/Materials/Resources Required
Projector and computer to play video.
Access to video cameras
laptops

Performances
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Introduction
Students will watch the ted talk below

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Forget-bigchange-start-with-a

Provide stimulating question to Have video re

make students think.

class discussion about video, teacher to facilitate

Lesson Focus/Body
Students will be task to make small habit changes to
their everyday life.
These changes can be a dietary or physical actively
or another healthy change.
Students will document the changes in a video blog.
Task will run for a month.
Students must identify the change they have made.
How they are going to do it.
What barriers they face
Strategies in place to overcome them.

Conclusion
Students will present their video to teacher.

Very individualised, teacher

there to help answer questions
students have.
Make sure that students are
kept on task.

Have technolo
available to bo
for their blog.