Education and health and wellbeing – lesson activities for ages 7-11
Teaching Resources
Education and health are mutually reinforcing, both need to be addressed together. Download the easy-to-use activities below to explore this topic with your students, both inside and outside the classroom.
These engaging activities for students aged 7-11 explore the importance of education in improving health and well-being. Each activity pack includes ready-to-use activities for teachers that can be easily added to lesson plans or used as standalone sessions, with context and background information that can be shared with learners before starting each activity. The accompanying slideshow can be used alongside the activities, to help facilitate the lesson with visual aids.
Learners will:
- Think about what it means to be happy, healthy and comfortable.
- Investigate how education can help us to keep healthy and well.
- Describe different emotions and understand why feelings might change.
- Discover how a Theirworld project supported the well-being of vulnerable children during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Identify steps you could take to improve your wellbeing and that of others around you.
To help teachers integrate the activities into their lesson plans, there are curriculum links for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but the resources can also be used outside of the UK.
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