A Healthy Menu
Students discuss the dietary requirements of an adolescent. Play food group bingo.
Teaching Activities
Avoiding Injury
Students discuss safe dance practice and generate a dance injury report.
Competing for a Place
Students discuss intimidating behaviours, practice positive self talk.
Dealing with Stress
Students discuss a stressful situation, create a slogan, vote for slogan, create a campaign, pitch the campaign to a panel of experts.
Eating Disorders
Students discuss the signs of an eating disorder and either write a letter to a friend with body image issues or hold a debate.
Fad Diets
Students discuss fad diets and develop a fad diet report.
Making Choices
Students create pros and cons list for a particular course of action. Write letter explaining choice, using argumentative format.
Perfectionism
Students discuss perfectionist traits, self talk for perfectionists and positive self talk alternatives.
Pre-performance Nerves
Students identify the symptoms for this kind of stress; learn what causes it and how to manage anxiety related to performing.
Storytelling Using Dramatic Elements
Students create a dance about bullying, perform and direct each other.
The Perfect Couple
Students discuss the ideals of the perfect couple, the pressures this puts on young people, consider their own ideals and write an ad for a dating agency.
Types of Feedback
Through role play students learn the effectiveness of four forms of feedback.
What is Perfection?
Students discuss perfection in Western Culture and create a collage of the perfect person.