Understand what makes a healthy lifestyle.
Identify strategies to stay healthy and active.
Review how to write a persuasive text.
Use evidence and persuasive techniques to support their ideas.
What it means to make healthy choices every day.
How food, exercise, and sleep help us stay healthy.
How to find and use information to support our ideas about healthy living.
I can describe what a healthy choice is and why it’s important.
I can name at least three ways to stay healthy.
I can find facts from a website and explain how they help support healthy living.
Good health is not just the absence of disease or illness, it is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. This means eating a balanced diet, getting regular exercise, avoiding tobacco and drugs and getting plenty of rest. Our bodies are like machines that require a balance of protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals and water to stay in good working order. Get the balance wrong and your health will suffer.
Describe what a healthy choice is and why it’s important.
Name at least three ways to stay healthy.
Use the following website to find the information you will
need to write a persuasive on the topic: Healthy Lifestyles.
https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/healthy-and-active-children
Google search: Healthy and Active Children
You are only researching for the first two sessions.
Use the graphic organiser to help you with your research.
Remember, the more information you have, the easier it is to write.