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__**Resource 3** __  **Series of Health Choices Posters**

**Explanation of resource ** This resource consists of 5 different posters aimed at creating awareness about health nutrition education and positive, active lifestyles. They draw attention to the growing national concern for obesity and other health-related issues. These posters, which are all potential complementary tools for teaching visual grammar, were all designed with strong messages endorsing healthy alternatives for personal wellbeing.
 * [[image:australian_guide_to_healthy_eating_poster_small.png width="226" height="322" link="@http://kidshealth.chw.edu.au/sites/kidshealth.chw.edu.au/files/fact-sheets/images/356/australian_guide_to_healthy_eating_poster_small.png"]] || **//Poster 1: Enjoy a variety of foods every day //**

This poster displays the daily consumptions of five groups, sending a message that certain food should be consumed less than others. This demonstrates the nutritional value for all areas, endorsed by the Australian Government. ||
 * [[image:Beactiveeveryday.png width="199" height="305" link="@http://%20http://www.nia.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/9A6CFD0C-F15F-4CE3-8064-F91089455529/15739/PosterStrength1.pdf"]] || **//Poster 2: Be active every day! //**

This poster was designed as a part of a campaign called ‘Go4lLife’ by the National Institutes of Health. Promoting the advantages that the simple act of exercise can do to maintain physical health and wellbeing: //Endurance, strength, balance, flexibility.// || A poster advertisement made by Ministry of Health New Zealand was also part of a campaign called ‘Healthy Eating, Healthy Action (HEHA)’. The poster provides tips to encourage kids to pack healthier lunches before going to school. ||
 * [[image:Different_healthy_snacks_english_colour.jpg width="220" height="354" link="@http://weightmanagement.hiirc.org.nz/page/8669/different-healthy-snacks/?section=13868&tab=166&contentType=604"]] || **//Poster 3: Healthy Lunches //**
 * [[image:swapper.png width="215" height="303" link="@http://swapit.gov.au/downloads/campaign-poster-A3.pdf"]] || **//Poster 4: Start thinking like a Swapper! //**

The most recent health choice campaign endorse by the Australian Government. This poster illustrates fresh ways to swap your life around for healthier options. With a catchy slogan, ‘Swap it! Don’t stop it!’ - it is a message that is bound to stick. ||
 * [[image:JustDrinkIt.png width="184" height="303" link="@http://www.infinitewellnesssolutions.com/images/posters/ES_Poster13.pdf"]] || **//Poster 5: Just Drink It! //**

A simplistic poster promoting the importance of staying h2o hydrated gets its message across clearly: ‘Just Drink it! ||

**Relevance to PDHPE outcome ** The series of posters above serve as stimuli to develop students’ understanding of the importance of healthy choices in eating and living. With five posters accessible, they would be used simultaneously during collaborative work for students to examine and analyse closely in detail around the unit of work: ‘Healthy Choices’. It is most beneficial for this resource to be introduced when students have a sound knowledge of the different areas of health that the Australian Government deemed as national priority.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">This resource educates students about making five smart decisions which are the messages that each poster project, thus, supporting a positive image for the mind and body. This aligns with Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Stage 2 outcome for //PHS2.12// //Discusses the factors influencing personal health choices// (Board of Studies, 2006, p. 32). From this, examining a useful resource like this can enrich their knowledge about healthy eating and physical activity which furthermore influences young people to stay active and fit.

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Relevance to Aspects of literacy to be explored in the unit ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">Through this resource, students can study and deconstruct a range of advertisements which students should already be familiarise with, as a text type that very much dominates in the real world. For this reason, it is essential to students’ learning that they learn to construct or interpret texts as a part of engaging in social practices with a purpose of which the text plays a part (Winch, Johnston, March, Ljungdahl and Holliday, 2006). In this case, the resource is an exposition text type advertisement which its purpose is to persuade other people to share one point of view and influence action from the target audience. This can provide teachers opportunities for class discussions about familiar issues that may be opened to explore (Board of Studies, 2007, p. 70).

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">The posters highlight specific visual grammatical components that allow students to construct meaning in order to identify an audience and purpose of the text. For example, poster 1 displays the pie-chart of the five food groups demonstrating the use of salience to draw the audience’s attention to the different food group’s nutritional value and daily consumption. Using this resource will facilitate their understanding of visual grammar to interpret meaning from the text intended for audience and purpose. This is all part of scaffolding students’ skills and knowledge so that they are able to design and make their very own advertisement as a multimodal text. The lessons here after focus on all of these multimodal skills students design poster presentations that bring text, images and space together.