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Target Audience: Year 5-6 (Stage 3) Subject Area: Personal Development, Health and Personal Education Strand: Personal Health Choices Substrands:
 * Decision Making
 * Nutrition
 * Active Lifestyle

Outcome: PHS3.12 Explains the consequences of personal lifestyle choices. Indicators:
 * Describes the factors that influence personal health choices, eg family, friends, religion, culture, environment
 * Values the importance of physical fitness to personal health
 * Appreciates the need to participate in physical activity
 * Devises strategies to achieve personal active lifestyle goals
 * Applies decision making process when choosing recreational pursuit

Board of Studies

**Making decisions** 15 minutes Teacher should be providing guidance and assistance to each group through encouragement
 * Considerations **
 * Hold small group discussions about decisions
 * Make a list of the decisions each group member has made today about food and about involvement in activity
 * Class discussion about results

30 minutes Using these three points as a guide students are to create a poster to inform peers about good decision making How can we support others in decision making?
 * What is the decision making process?
 * What are some of the influences on decision making?

**Nutrition** 15 minutes __Resources__
 * Students will watch video "Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages"
 * Students research to create their own definition of
 * a) Physical wellbeing
 * b) Emotional wellbeing
 * c) Mental wellbeing
 * d) Spiritual wellbeing
 * e) Social wellbeing
 * Dictionary
 * Thesaurus
 * Internet

10 minutes
 * Class Discussion**
 * What does it mean to be healthy?
 * Discuss the concept of balance between the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social wellbeing
 * Summarise the main discussion points by creating a **class definition of health**

20 minutes
 * Dietary Guidelines for Children**
 * Students read through the dietary guidelines for children (two pages)
 * Create a pamphlet to promote the guidelines in groups of four

**Active Lifestyle** __Class discussion__ 10 minutes  What is an active lifestyle? Why is it important to have an active lifestyle? What are some active lifestyle activities you would enjoy?

**__Group work__** 10 minutes  Using the headings: immediate/longterm, physical, social, emotional and mental;
 * Brainstorm the effects physical activity has on the body

**__As a class__** 10 minutes Create a final report, highlighting the effects that physical activity has on the body

**__Group work__** 15 minutes  Devise an advertisement for television, radio or print to influence the consumer to participate in new active lifestyle activity