'Healthforteens' is a website with hundreds of articles about all aspects of teenage health: puberty, addictions, sexual health, online behaviour etc. It's an excellent starting point for an interesting lesson or discussion.
Learning objectives
You can read texts about health and medical issues
You can write short texts containing your own opinion
Life skill: critical thinking
Class questions
Do you consider yourself to be in good health?
What are some things you do to stay healthy?
What is your unhealthiest habit?
Activities
Lesson tip 1:
Give the students some time to browse the Healthforteens website individually. Tell them to pick out two or three interesting articles, put the links, a short description and their opinion on them in a document. Then pair them up and have them exchange the documents with each other and -if there's time- have them react to their partner's opinion with their own.
Lesson tip 2:
You can also share a document with the whole class so everyone can put an article link, short description and opinion together and they can then all browse each other's. Make sure you set clear boundaries on how to work in a shared document and tell them you can see who changes what with the aid of Revision History!
