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** “Don’t Quit It, Switch It!” ** ** PDHPE **  __ Personal Health Choices __   PHS2.12: Discusses the factors influencing personal health choices.

__ Rationale: __ This unit designed for Stage 2 students is an integration of PDHPE and English content. It aims to educate and inform students about making healthy choices in order to facilitate an active and well-balanced lifestyle. This is done within the context of growing national concerns around health, nutrition, exercise and obesity. By integrating the use of multimodal texts, students are afforded the opportunity to articulate and convey the subject matter, knowledge and perspectives embedded within this topic. Moreover, students are encouraged to be creative, critical and analytical of the various resources provided.

After laying a foundational knowledge of this subject matter, students will be working and collaborating in groups of four to research and understand the various components of a healthy lifestyle through a range of activities. A deep knowledge of content, a supportive, challenging and engaging learning environment, and relevance of their learning with real-life contexts will be fostered throughout the unit (NSW DET, 2003).

Students will be analysing a range of resources including YouTube clips, posters and a brochure. They will be engaged in critically thinking, justifying their opinions around health and well-being by writing an exposition, and exemplifying visual literacy skills in designing their own health-promoting poster.

By the end of the unit, students are expected to produce a rich multimodal text in the form of a video advertisement. Each group’s video intends to promote and endorse an aspect of a healthy lifestyle that will be part of a whole class campaign to the rest of the school.

The five aspects: 1) Being active everyday 2) Drinking water 3) Healthy meals and recipes 4) Sports and games 5) Alternative healthy snacks