Lesson plan - Design your own health campaign
Overview
In this activity students are challenged to design a health campaign that will encourage others to adopt a healthy lifestyle, including planning their campaigning methods, key messages, budget and visuals.
This lesson plan links to the GCSE science curriculum plus the activity could also be run as part of a health week or a collapsed curriculum day for Science, Maths, PSHE and Citizenship and is also suitable for KS3 students.
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| Time | Activity | Resources |
| 10-15 mins | Introduction to activity | n/a |
| 30-40 mins | Small groups design their own health campaign poster on a given topic (from a selection of four) | Factsheets for each topic plus campaign costs factsheet |
| 10 mins | Judging of campaign posters | n/a |
Useful resources
There is lots of useful information on our healthy living website about maing changes to lifestyle.
Examples of public health campaigns include our SunSmart and Smoke is poison campaigns
Watch the NHS giving up smoking TV adverts.
The Food Standards Agency’s Eat well, be well campaign includes examples of their TV adverts to encourage people to cut down on saturated fat.
Explore the British Heart Foundation’s food 4 thought campaign .
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Read more about the health risks for teens who swap exercise for slumping on the sofa.
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