1. Westport Middle School Advisory Lessons
Health
Westport Middle School
Advisory Lessons

2. Icebreaker- Twenty Questions
A student is chosen to stand in the middle of the circle.
A notecard name a hobby is affixed to his/her back.
He or she may ask up to twenty yes-or- no questions to try to figure out what is written on the card.

3. Learning Target and Agenda
I can learn how to be physically healthy.
Agenda:
Discuss health for teenagers (or pre-teens)
Video
Activity- Use the article to create an advertisement for teens motivating them to be healthy
Exit Slip

4. What does it mean to be healthy? Why is it important to be healthy?
Discuss
What does it mean to be healthy?
Why is it important to be healthy?
Do you think you are healthy? Why or why not?

5. Video
Nutrition for Teens

6. Activity
Use the article to create an advertisement for teens motivating them to be healthy.
Example:
Do you want to live a long healthy life?
Do you want to do better in school and sports?
Tips:
Eat more vegetables!
Eat less sugar!
Avoid caffeine!

7. What are some ways you could be healthier?
Exit Slip
What are some ways you could be healthier?
Do you want to be healthier? Why or why not?

8. Icebreaker- Something’s Changed
A student stands in the middle of the circle and slowly turns around.
The students in the circle observe him/her carefully, trying to memorize the details of how he/she looks.
He/she then goes out of sight and changes one, two, or three things about his/her appearance.
Upon his/her return, she slowly turns around in the middle of the circle.
Three guesses are given as to what has changed.

9. Learning Target and Agenda
I can learn about the dangers of junk food.
Agenda
Discuss dangers of junk food
Video
Activity- The Dangers of Junk Food – Diagram of Human Body
Exit Slip

10. Discuss
What is junk food?
What do you think junk food does to your brain?
What do you think junk food does to your body?
Do you eat a lot of junk food?

11. What Junk Food Does to Your Body
Video
What Junk Food Does to Your Body

12. The Dangers of Junk Food
Activity
The Dangers of Junk Food
Read about eight dangers of junk food and complete diagram of human body.

13. Identify three things junk food does to your body.
Exit Slip
Identify three things junk food does to your body.
Do you think you have a problem with junk food? Why or why not?

14. Icebreaker- Simultaneous Clap
Students stand in a circle.
Leader starts by clapping both hands with the student to his/her right, just once.
That student quickly turns to his/her right and repeats, and so on.
Increase the challenge by varying the clap or clapping individually but simultaneously with the person next to you, one pair at a time, around the circle.

15. Learning Target and Agenda
I can learn about harmful ingredients in junk food.
Agenda
Discuss the Ingredients in Hot Cheetos

16. Some headlines about
Hot Cheetos

17. Ingredients in Hot Cheetos WHOA!
Enriched corn meal- very little nutritional value after they strip corn kernels and add preservatives
Maltodextrin- a tasteless white powder
Food colorings- Yellow 5 and Red 40, which is potentially cancer-causing and causes hyperactivity
MSG- linked to headaches, fatigue, addiction, and weight gain

18. Videos
Dangers of Hot Cheetos
Banning Hot Cheetos

19. Real Foods vs. Fake Foods
Foods that you eat basically how they are grown.
Foods that don’t have anything added to them.
Foods that you can recognize and cook yourself in your kitchen.
FAKE FOODS
Foods that are changed a lot with chemicals from how they are grown.
Foods that have a lot of things added to them.
Foods that you cannot cook yourself in a kitchen.

20. Complete the worksheet “Real Foods vs. Fake Foods” with a partner.
Activity
Complete the worksheet “Real Foods vs. Fake Foods” with a partner.

21. Exit Slip
Did today’s lesson motivate you to decrease your intake of Hot Cheetos? Why or why not?

22. Icebreaker- Rap a Rhythm
While seated in a circle, a leader “calls” by clapping a rhythm and/or snapping fingers in a basic rhythmic pattern.
Then the student to the right “responds” by creating a different short rhythmic pattern.
Everyone else in the circle repeats the “response” and the leader repeats his/her original pattern.
Students take turns being the leader and the responder.

23. Learning Target and Agenda
I can learn about other ways to stay healthy.
Agenda
Discuss other ways to be healthy

24. Other Ways to Be Healthy
Get enough sleep.
Stay away from drugs, alcohol, and smoking.
Don’t obsess about your weight.
Protect yourself against the sun.

25. Choose a Topic and Research/Mini-Poster
With a partner, choose one of the topics we just discussed. You will complete a graphic organizer using an article about that topic.
Create a mini-poster about the topic.

26. Which topic did you research?
Exit Slip
Which topic did you research?
What are three important things you learned during your research?