Starter quiz
- Which of these does your body need to work properly?
- balanced diet ✓
- exercise ✓
- clothing
- fizzy drinks
- sleep ✓
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- True or false? Sleep keeps the mind and body healthy.
- True ✓
- False
- To keep our mouth healthy we need to ______ our teeth twice a day.
- 'brush' ✓
- Which of the following are food groups?
- carbohydrate ✓
- fat ✓
- fruit
- protein ✓
- vegetable
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- Which of these factors could improve the health of your heart?
- exercising ✓
- working on a laptop
- smoking
- healthy diet ✓
- mental stress
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- Which two foods should you eat more of to stay healthy?
- cake
- chocolate
- fruit ✓
- pizza
- vegetables ✓
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Exit quiz
- True or false? A healthy person has no injuries.
- True
- False ✓
- Which of the following activities could improve your health?
- eating cake
- exercising ✓
- gaming
- spending time with friends ✓
- walking in the forest ✓
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- Which of the following statements are true?
- A person is either healthy or unhealthy.
- Health is a range from healthy to unhealthy. ✓
- People cannot do anything about their health once they are ill.
- Ill health is a change from a person’s normal appearance, function or behaviour. ✓
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- Sometimes changes to our body and behaviour can be a normal part of growing...
- 'older' ✓
- Match the key terms to their definitions.
- Symptom⇔A change that could be associated with ill health. ✓
- Disease⇔A persistent deviation from a person’s normal state. ✓
- Physical health⇔The condition of your body. ✓
- Mental health⇔How you feel, think and act. ✓
- Who do you agree with?
Aisha: "Everybody has mental health." ✓
Andeep: "Mental ill health can affect anybody." ✓
Jun: "Your mental health does not affect your physical health."
Sofia: "Your physical health can affect your mental health." ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- People have both physical health and mental health.
- Physical health and mental health range from good to ill.
- Changes in normal body appearance, function and behaviour can be symptoms of ill health.
Common misconception
Only thinking about physical and not mental health; thinking health is a binary of "healthy or ill".
The lesson draws upon research on students' understanding of 'health' as a concept to specifically tackle the above misconceptions.
Keywords
Physical health - Physical health is the condition of your body.
Mental health - Mental health is how you feel, think and act.
Symptom - An unusual change in a person’s normal appearance, function or behaviour might be a symptom of ill health.
Disease - Disease is a persistent deviation from a person’s normal appearance, function or behaviour.
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