Ideas:
Health and Community
Preparation:
Activity: The Picture of Health. “What does health look like?” What images come to mind when you hear the word health or healthy?”
Students create visual using magazine collages, draw, take photographs. Consider having students display all the pictures of health and recommend slogans that could be eye catching if placed at bus stops, on billboards, or in community centers, or given to influential organizations looking to help the community live healthily. Have students work with cross-age partners depending on the purpose of the experience. What does this have to do with me? In what ways am I already making healthy choices? Create lists: what I already do to be healthy; what would be easy to start doing; what requires more long-term commitment.
School Wide-Event
-Jump for heart
-Pennies for Patience
Unexpected Circumstance
-illness or family burden the school community, people want to help
Issue of Common Concern
Ideas for Action:
Serve the elderly by having them learn proper nutrition and muscle building exercises and provide a yoga class to a local retirement home.
Have students write local, state and federal governments to tax sugar and other “foods”.
Get Up, Power Up: Adolescent Obesity the challenge
Resources:
Kaye (2004). The Complete Guide to Service Learning. Free Spirit Publishing. Chapter 10: Healthy Lives, Healthy Choices. Pgs. 143-156.
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