Students will discover the difference between health fads featured in the media and scientifically sound healthy habits. Students can then research recent significant health news and share their findings with the class.

Classes will be tasked with planning a student-facing campaign that promotes physical activity by identifying a major barrier to being active and proposing how to overcome it. Students will create a tangible goal and then share their results as part of the campaign requirements.

This activity focuses on the idea that healthy doesn’t have to mean tasteless. Upon reviewing their country’s dietary guidelines, students can develop modifications to their diet that will help them eat more healthily while still enjoying what they consume.

Students work in teams to design the optimal menu for a meal to celebrate a special event. Teams are given guidelines on nutrition and costs, and will use critical thinking to develop a healthy menu on a budget.

Students will work in teams to participate in an educational escape room! Simple fitness challenges and health-themed puzzles will be presented to students as stations. Students that successfully complete all of the components will be eligible to escape!

Students will compare the ways that alcohol, tobacco, and vaping can negatively affect a person’s health. They will then participate in a mock debate before deciding which risky behavior will pose the biggest risk to their future health based on their learning.

Students will learn about nutrition and different types of physical activities, including cardio and seated. Students will design an obstacle course to learn about cardio physical activity and participate in information stations about nutrition and seated physical activities.

Students will explore various examples of fitness apps and discuss the strategies such apps use to help keep people active. They will work in groups to test free apps to see which ones are successful in helping people reduce the risk of developing noncommunicable diseases. They will share their findings and reflect on how they would improve the app design.

Students will review their sedentary hobbies, such as watching television or playing video games, and design a physical activity challenge that will help them increase their physical activity during these hobbies. They will explain how their plan could help them reach their daily physical activity recommendations.

After reviewing the elements of a standard nutrition label, students will learn how to interpret ingredient lists, including learning if the order of ingredients matters, how to differentiate between naturally occurring ingredients and chemicals, and draw conclusions about whether examples would be nutritious food choices.

In this session, students will learn about kinetic energy and demonstrate the effects of mass and speed on energy during a lab activity. Students will draw conclusions about the connections between kinetic energy, physical activity, and reducing their risk of developing certain NCDs.

Students will learn how a healthy heart pumps blood through their bodies’ arteries by building a common model of a pumping heart. Then, they will learn about heart disease, how it affects the heart's ability to pump, and how this noncommunicable disease develops and can be prevented.

Students will learn about the risks associated with overconsumption of sugar by visualizing the amount of sugar in various drinks and common food items. Students will then create a resource that explains to peers the connection between sugar consumption and NCDs.

Help put students on the path toward improving their eating habits as they learn how to apply dietary guidelines to nutritious meal plans they will create for themselves.

This digital lesson will guide students through an exploration of the link between physical activity and health. In stations, students will try different forms of physical activity, investigate how their body reacts to different types of exercise, and learn more about each activity’s specific positive effects. Students will then examine their current level of activity and create an action plan to help them work toward achieving 60 minutes of physical activity each day.

Building off the popularity and efficiency of YouTube workouts, student groups will collaborate to create the content for a short workout routine. They will learn the difference between aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening activities in order to create a routine that touches on three important types of physical activity. Students will then share their workout routines as they work toward accomplishing their 60 minutes of daily physical activity!

In this lesson, students will discover how type 2 diabetes develops and what may be done to help reduce the risk of this noncommunicable disease. Students will then take the information they learned and create an infographic.

Students will learn the basics of blood pressure by participating in a demonstration using balloons, water, and air. Building on that experience, they will learn what it means to have “high blood pressure” before evaluating lifestyle choices and their effects on heart health.

Clap-stomp-jump! Using creative combinations of these motions, students will develop challenging movement patterns to increase their heart rates through physical activity. Students will learn to measure their heart rates by taking their pulses.