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__**Resource 4** __ **Website - Healthy Kids : Eat Well, Get Active** [|Click] on the picture to be directed to the Healthy Kids website for more information,and get active! **Explanation of resource** This resource is a website by the joint initiative of NSW Department of Health, NSW Department of Education and Communities and the Heart Foundation. it is simple and easy to navigate, making it accessible for parents, teachers and students as it has separate links that provides information for all three. The website also acts as a guide for its wide-audience, in this case students who are provided with facts and relevant information on how to and why to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

** Relevance to the PDHPE outcome **

This website provides students with a variety of information about healthy lifestyles, it contains valuable information and facts regarding health issues and the importance of keeping a healthy lifestyle, by providing real life examples that are relevant to students' lives and well being. This website is full of resources that can be used by students for the making a multimodal text; in this case, a video advertisement to promote well-being and a healthy lifestyle.

This resource covers the PDHPE Stage 2 outcomes for Personal Healthy Choices: //PHS2.12// //discusses the factors influencing personal health choices// (Board of Studies, 2006, p.32). It provides information and guides students to keeping a healthy lifestyle, through their '5 ways to a healthy lifestyle' model: get active each day, choose water as a drink, eat more fruit and vegies, switch off the screen and get active, and grab a healthy snack. Through these five steps to a healthy lifestyle, students are informed of how and why it is vital to keep a healthy lifestyle and health choices.

** Aspect of literacy to be explored ** This website is a clear example of visual literacy, which can be used as a main resource for students’ research purposes as it contains numerous ways on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This website has been design to attract its audience members, as it caters for all three parents, teachers and students. Firstly, the visual nature of the website is inviting and attractive through its features and techniques used to present a convincing message. Students will be learning about visual literacy from the first few lessons of the unit through a number of interactive visual forms such as: videos, poster advertisements and brochure. Therefore, by the seventh lesson when this website is used, students should be very familiar with the types of techniques used to convey meaning through visuals. The added complexity of this resource being a website and therefore involving text as well as visuals and moving graphics, should challenge the students in their understanding of how to critically view visual texts. This experience will be scaffolded by the teacher and so the students will be supported as they browse the website and attempt to identify different features of the text, both visual and written. The students will be encouraged to look critically at the text to select out the language features used to persuade or convince, which they will discover are subtle and hence very effective. This will aid them when they later are required to construct a storyboard for their final product a video advertisement to promote well-being and healthy lifestyles.

This website will be beneficial in providing a good model of informative and persuasive writing through the use of a range of visual elements the students should be inspired by when making their video advertisement.