The document outlines instructions for students to work in groups to research and present a 15-minute lesson on an important health issue for young people. It provides guidance on selecting a topic, researching the topic, developing a lesson plan, delivering the lesson to the class, and evaluating its effectiveness. Students are asked to choose a topic, begin researching and planning their lesson, and explain their topic choice to the teacher. In subsequent lessons, they will complete planning, develop lesson resources and a formal lesson plan, and finally present and evaluate their lesson.

1. Learn:
 The health issues that are most important to young
people
 How to find out about them
 The different ways we can present information
 How to measure if people have understood our
information
Do:
 In a group identify an important health issue and then
research and plan a 15 minute lesson (including producing
a lesson plan)
 Present your lesson to the rest of the class and evaluate it
 Complete the TASC wheel to aid your planning

2. Your task
 Working in a groups of 4/5 discuss and
then pick a health and well-being topic that
you think is really important to young
people.
 You should be ready to explain to the rest
of the class how you have come to this
decision.
 You then have to plan a 15 minute lesson
to the rest of the class and deliver that
lesson.

3. The Timetable
 Today – choose your issue and begin
research and planning of lesson (by the
end of today – explain your choice of issue
to me and the rest of class and what you
will do next).
 Next lesson – complete planning, produce
lesson resources and a Lesson Plan (to
be submitted to me).
 Final lesson – present your lessons and
evaluation.

4. There are many issues that you
could choose to look at……
EATING DISORDERS SELF-HARMING
ALCOHOL
PEER
PRESSURE
BODY IMAGE
TOBACCO
SEXTING/ONLINE
REPUTATION
MENTAL HEALTH
LEGAL HIGHS
DRUGS
STI’s
GAMBLING
CONSENT
CONTRACEPTION

5. There are many useful websites
you could start by looking at….
 http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/Pages/Livewellhub.a
 https://www.brook.org.uk/
 http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/health
 You should share your research tasks so
that you are all taking part and ‘pulling
your weight’!

6. Your Lesson?
 There are also many ways to deliver your
lesson.
 Think about some of the best lessons that
you have had! What made you remember
them?
 For example: sharing resources and tasks
on Google Classroom, presentations, card
sorts, written tasks, quizzes, gap-fills. Be
creative but keep your objectives in mind!

7. How can we the measure the
success of your lesson?
 Your lesson plan should contain the objective(s) that you
are trying to achieve (example: ‘that students should
understand and analyse the effects of legal highs on
health and well-being’) and details of how you will
demonstrate that this has been achieved.
 There are many ways you could check this – for example
through some sort of ‘exit quiz’, survey, written response,
etc. Include this within your Lesson Plan.
 We will also, in the best democratic traditions, have a
class vote on the ‘favourite lesson’ and there may be
small prize for this!

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REFLECT
What do
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know aboutthis?
Whatis
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Howmanyideascanwethinkof?
Whichis
thebest
idea?
Let’sdoit!

9. For plenary discussion and
student voice
 How useful was this activity for learning?
 What makes effective learning?
 How is it different in a non-examined
subject?

10. For plenary discussion and
student voice
 How useful was this activity for learning?
 What makes effective learning?
 How is it different in a non-examined
subject?