A Healthy Menu
Students discuss the dietary requirements of an adolescent. Play food group bingo.
Select from the following Heath and Wellbeing activities that explore health, fitness, human movement, nutrition, fitness, personal development and identity.
Teaching Activities
A Shoe Advertisement
Students discuss De Bono’s Six Action Shoes and use this information to support the development of a shoe advertisement.
Agility, Flexibility and Balance
Students play two games that test agility, flexibility and balance.
Avoiding Injury
Students discuss safe dance practice and generate a dance injury report.
Bare Feet
Students discuss the kinds of occupations that focus on feet. They create a script, written/spoken from the foot’s point of view as it spends a day dancing in pointe shoes.
Body Language
Students recreate the staged fight between Abigail and Sammy with particular attention to body language.
Competing for a Place
Students discuss intimidating behaviours, practice positive self talk.
Contradictions
Students examine the ways in which behaviours sometimes contradict values.
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.
Feedback
Students discuss the giving and receiving of notes for improvement of group and individual performances, learn a dance and practice giving each other notes.
First Aid
Students consider causes for physical collapse, discuss emergency responses.
Floor Dance
Students create a floor phrase where they do not use their hands or stand on their feet.
Healthy Mind, Healthy Body
Students create a feel good dance. Reflect on their feelings before and after.
Hydration
Students learn about our bodies need for water and calculate the amount of water needed by people according to weight.
Injuries
Students learn about soft tissue injuries and fractures, create an injury report.
Making Choices
Students create pros and cons list for a particular course of action. Write letter explaining choice, using argumentative format.
Parents – Them and Us
Students consider leisure activities – shared and different using a Venn diagram.
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.
Rehabilitation
Students carry out the Ausdance Fitness Test focusing on strengths and weaknesses then devleop their own fitness plan.
Results
Students discuss one character’s results failure and write an internal dialogue for her.
Rivalry
Exploring what friendly rivalry means, students perform and dance battle in a hip hop style.
Safe Dance Spaces
Students learn what constitutes a safe dance space and carry out a check.
Scene 17
Students create a script for one scene.
Storytelling Using Dramatic Elements
Students create a dance about bullying, perform and direct each other.
Sugar for the Brain
Students learn about the brain’s need for glucose and conduct a sugar taste test.
The Foot as a Tool
Students learn about range of motion in the foot and ankle and explore personal range of motion.
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.
Tied Together
Practical activity where pairs of students perform activities as one person, taking into account the other’s point of view.
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.