Health · Week 10 · Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Personal Health
Behind the Highlight Reel
Students compare an imagined influencer's polished posts with what likely happened off camera and discuss how feeds can shape how teens feel about themselves and others.
- Students will
- Students discuss how media and screen habits influence positive health practices such as sleep, activity, and mood.
- SEL skill
- Consider the perspectives of a poster and a viewer
- What it looks like
- Students consider the perspective of both the poster and the viewer and recognize that feeds show only part of anyone's life.
- Content focus
- Media influences on health practices and screen habits
- Format
- Two sides talk
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding other people's perspectives and showing empathy, including for people from different backgrounds. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 2.1.P: Personal and Community Health, Standard 2 (Analyzing Health Influences), item 2.1.P
- Student page: Health journal page
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 2: Analyzing Health Influences
More social awareness activities for Health
- Green Flags, Red Flags Social awarenessStudents read short texts between imagined friends and family members, sort behaviors into green flags and red flags, and explain how each one feels from the other person's side.
- Blueprint for a Kinder Campus Social awarenessStudents walk an imagined school day through the eyes of different students, spot moments where someone could feel left out, and design small actions that build a respectful campus.
- Everybody's Doing It? Check the Data Social awarenessStudents guess what percent of high schoolers vape, compare their guess with national survey data, and discuss how believing everybody does it creates pressure.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.