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Skills for the Future | Lesson 1: Making Healthy Choices

A one-week course exploring the science of healthy choices, teaching self-awareness, resilience, and decision-making through interactive scenarios and practical challenges.

Why Choose This Course?

Upschool's one-week 'Making Healthy Choices' course helps students build lifelong wellbeing habits through interactive decision scenarios, practical challenges, and peer teaching. Learners explore Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, and Agency, ultimately earning a Skills for the Future certificate and building their digital portfolio on Upschool.

Learning Goals

Understanding Healthy Choices

Learning how our feelings, daily habits, and environment influence our decisions, and discovering how to make thoughtful choices for our wellbeing.


Speaking and Listening

Talking about a time we faced peer pressure or made a choice based on others, and discussing how knowing ourselves helps us make better decisions.


Creative Expression

Designing, drawing, and crafting a colourful Healthy Habits Matching Game to teach Kindergarten children about positive actions and their consequences.


Exploring Information

Finding out about real-world health data regarding sleep and movement, and learning how to safely interpret facts to guide our daily routines.


Personal Challenge

Choosing five healthy habits to practice for a whole week, keeping a journal to record our actions, and reflecting on how we learn and grow from setbacks.

Key Information

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)

  • All of our courses empower students to take action towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for a better world. This course specifically focuses on the goals shown below.

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Ages: 12 -17  Years 


Course Duration: 1 Month


Time per Lesson: 90 mins


Key Curriculum Areas: English & Literacy, Mathematics, Personal Development & Wellbeing, Science & Technology, Creative Arts, Geography, Digital Technologies


Teacher/s: Gavin McCormack

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