The Importance of Health Education

An Interactive Activity

Introduction:

Health and fitness are an integral part of any student’s educational experience. There are many young people, as well as older people, that are not getting enough exercise and do not eat healthy. Habits are hard to break, but these are habits that need to change, or prevented at an early age from happening.

Activity:

Students are to go to the following website, view the contents of the site, and answer a series of questions and give their opinions concerning the importance of health education. You are to answers the questions in the space provided by navigating the website.

Activity Link - http://library.thinkquest.org/12153 - you will go to this website and will need to click on the Bodies in Motion Minds at Rest hyperlink. Navigate the website and its links, copy the questions, go to Microsoft Word or WordPerfect, paste the questions to a new document, type your answers in the spaces provided, save and print the final document for review.

Make sure to keep a log of the links you reviewed for each question.

Assignment:

1. What are the primary effects on the body and mind of not getting enough exercise or physical activity?

2. What are some of the main reasons why people today do not get enough exercise?

3. What will motivate those same people to start exercising?