HEALTHY LIFESTYLES ACTION PLANNING SESSION PLAN

SESSION: HEALTHY LIFESTYLES ACTION PLANNING
Expected Progress: Be able to work towards a healthy, active lifestyle / Description:Review the concepts of action planning and use the now, future, how model to explore how what the young people’s lifestyle is like at the moment, what they would like it to be and what steps they can take to get there
Resources required:
Action Planning worksheet
Flipchart x 2
Post it notes
Pens
Lifestyle cards / LLN Opportunities:
Estimate and calculate spending
Calculate a budget
Calculate savings made from healthy choices / STEM Opportunities:
Digital Skills, Making budgets in Excel
Using the web to find apps that can assist in a healthy lifestyle
/ Qualifications Opportunities:
Preparing for a Healthy, Active Lifestyle
SCQF Preparing for a Healthy, Active Lifestyle
Description of Activity / Resources / Suggested Learning Outcomesand Assessment Criteria
Introduction and icebreaker
Young people are given a set budget of £150 and told to plan a two week healthy habit
s/eating plan using Excel or a hand-drawn diagram chart
They must come up with an idea – will they go to the gym? Buy better food?
Encourage young people to make estimates and calculations as they make their two week healthy habits and eating plan. How much do they spend in two weeks currently? How much would it cost to add more fruit and vegetables? How much would they save if they cut down on some of the unhealthy food items they regularly buy? If one exercise class costs £6 how many times can they afford to go in two weeks? Would it be cheaper to go to the gym, join a team or exercise at home?
The young people will need to input the expenditures into their spreadsheet and make sure it does not exceed their budget.
Encourage young people to research the services that can help with healthy habits and eating, such as apps like MOVES, Sleep Cycle, and the nutrition calculator online. / Computer with internet
Calculators
Goals and Action Plans
If you have done the ‘Action Planning’ session with your young people, review what you learned in that lesson. Make sure the young people understand that an action plan is a plan they create to help them work toward their goals. Remind them that good goals should be SMART (Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timed.)
Explain that one way of setting goals is to use the ‘Now, Future, How?’ method, which this session will follow. This means looking at how things are at the moment, how you would like them to be in the future, and how you are going to make that change happen.
Now
Ask young people to think about the unhealthy things they do at the moment.
You could use the Lifestyle cards to give them ideas of what they might include. If the group are comfortable together, you could play Change Places If around this information, or just get young people to raise their hands if they fall into either category.
Give them some time to fill in their worksheet or make a list of the healthy and unhealthy things they do at the moment. Challenge them to think about what makes these things healthy or unhealthy.

Encourage young people to work out how much they would save from stopping or cutting down some of their unhealthy habits. For example: how much would they save from not smoking/buying energy drinks for a week? Multiply this number by 52 to work out how much they would save in a year. / Lifestyle cards / Entry 3/Level 1/Scotland Level 3/Scotland Level 4
Assessment Criteria: give examples of how to make own lifestyle more healthy
Level 2/Scotland Level 5
Assessment Criteria: produce an action plan to make own lifestyle more healthy
Future
Set up two flipcharts at different points in the room. One should say ‘Short-term’ and the other ‘Long Term.’
Give the young people a few minutes to answer the following question: ‘Using the information that you have learned, how could you make your lifestyle more healthy and active?’
They should write their answers on post it notes and when they are finished, ask them to decide whether it is a long-term or a short-term goal, and put it on the appropriate piece of flipchart.
Encourage young people to set several goals, including both long and short term. Some students might be able to take a long-term goal and break it down into a series of short-term goals.
Ask a few volunteers to present their goals and the rest of the group to have a group discussion about whether the goal is SMART / Flipchart x 2
Post it notes
Pens / Use information about own lifestyle to identify ways to make it more healthy and active.
How?
With their post its full of goals, ask the young people to put a star or other symbol on the ones they think they will need help achieving. Can anyone in the group name place or organisations where they could go for support or advice? Some examples might be: a doctor or nurse, a youth worker, the gym etc. Some students could go away and contact these organisations for more information to support their action plans.
Having had a discussion about setting goals and breaking long-term goals down into shorter-term goals, young people can fill in their action plan worksheets, setting goals for how they are going to achieve those goals and the timeframe for achieving them. / Action Planning worksheet / Level 1/Scotland Level 4
Assessment Criteria: give examples of places and organisations that offer help and advice about achieving a healthy lifestyle
Level 2/Scotland Level 5
Assessment Criteria: obtaininformation from places and organisations that offer help and advice about achieving a healthy lifestyle

1 (April 2017)