Your Health is Your Wealth!
Other Subject Contributions
Art & Design
Produce a Health Awareness campaign targeting young people.
Explore how colours are used to express emotions.
Geography
Investigate factors that impact on personal health locally such as location, pollution and lifestyle.
Explore the influences on global patterns of health such as poverty, AIDS, access to clean water and education.
English with Media Education
Explore the effectiveness of language and images in current health campaigns.
Modern Languages
Correspond with a school where the target language is spoken to compare health issues. Useful resource: Keeping Healthy topic in www.scienceacross.org. Use ICT to produce instructions to accompany a simple fitness routine in the target language.
Mathematics
Investigate numerical and statistical data around health issues such as incidence of diseases and recovery rates, nutritional requirements, vitamin and mineral RDAs, life expectancy, etc.
History
Explore how and why health standards have changed over time.
Explore health issues in another period and draw comparisons with today.
Drama
Investigate pupils’ perceptions of health-related stereotypes in a short drama presentation, for example, ‘a day in the life of a couch potato/a fitness fanatic/a pensioner’.
Music
Listen to and compose music to suit different types of exercise, conveying moods of energy or relaxation.
Compose and/or perform a piece of music to support a health related issue.
Explore the power of music to evoke mood and atmosphere and to influence behaviour.
Health and safety issues when performing and composing.