Unit 5, Health
Lesson 1

 

What does the word health mean to you?

Write a sentence on what health means to you.

 

What is the difference between healthy and unhealthy?

Write some examples of each one.

Healthy

Unhealthy

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Objectives:

This unit focuses on health and the things you need to know to live a healthy life. Today you will identify healthy and unhealthy habits, calculate percentages of people who have healthy habits, and make a bar graph of the healthy habits of students in this class.

 

Activity A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity A

What are the following people doing? Which activities are healthy?
Which activities are unhealthy? Make two lists below.


Healthy Habits Unhealthy Habits

 

Activity B

Can you think of other healthy or unhealty activities? Add a good and a bad habit to your list above.

 

Activity C

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity C

Who can tell me what junk food is?

How many of you eat junk food?

Ms. Tracy’s students took a poll in their class to find out what bad healthy habits they have. They presented their results in the form of a bar graph. Read the bar graph and answer the questions.



1. What percentage of students eat junk food?   

2. What percentage of students sleep less than eight hours?

3. What percentage of students don’t smoke?

4. What percentage of students don’t drink alcohol?

5. What is the worst health habit Ms. Tracy’s class shares?

 

Activity D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity D

With a group of students, make a list of four good health habits and take a poll in your class.
Make sure you ask every student in the class.
Make a bar graph using EXCEL.

How to Calculate Percentages (%)

1. First, find out the total number of students in your class.
2. Then divide the total number of students into the number of students who answered the question yes.

Example bar graph

 

Writing Activity