Healthy Habits
Healthy Habits Every Day
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Healthy Habits Every Day
Open with the idea that habits are small actions we do often, and these actions can help or harm our health.
Our learning goal
I can recognise healthy habits and explain why they are good for my body and mind.
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Which healthy habits do you already know?
Use this to activate prior knowledge. Expect simple words or short phrases such as water, sleep, fruit, exercise, wash hands, brush teeth.
What is a healthy habit?
A healthy habit is something we do often
It helps our body or mind stay well
Good habits can give us energy and help us grow
Keep the definition simple and concrete. Link habits to everyday life: eating, sleeping, moving, washing and resting.
Healthy habits help us
keep our bodies strong
feel more awake in class
protect us from some illnesses
improve our mood
support learning and concentration
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Eating and drinking well
Drink enough water
Eat fruit and vegetables
Choose regular meals
Too much sugar is not a healthy habit
You do not need to give nutrition detail. Focus on clear contrasts students can recognise in pictures.
Moving and resting
Exercise helps the heart and muscles
Sleep helps the body recover
Rest can improve focus and mood
Sitting all day is not a healthy habit
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Clean habits matter too
Wash hands before eating
Brush teeth every day
Keep your body and clothes clean
Clean habits help stop germs spreading
If useful, remind students that healthy habits are not only about food and sport. Hygiene is part of health too.
Which action is a healthy habit?
Drinking water
Too much sugar
Sitting all day
Skipping sleep
Checks the first teaching block: healthy habits help the body or mind, while sugar overload, too much sitting and not sleeping enough are unhealthy.
Healthy habits help us
Healthy habits help our body and mind stay . Drinking and eating fruit and vegetables can give us energy. Sleep helps the body , and clean habits help stop spreading.
Correct answers in order: well, water, recover, germs.
What is an unhealthy habit?
An unhealthy habit can harm the body or mind
It may feel easy or fun at first
If we do it often, it can cause problems later
Avoid moral language. Present unhealthy habits as choices that are less helpful for health, not as reasons to judge people.
Examples of unhealthy habits
eating too much junk food
drinking sugary drinks often
not sleeping enough
spending too long sitting or on screens
not washing hands or brushing teeth
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Small habits, big effects
Healthy habits → more energy, better focus, stronger body
Unhealthy habits → tiredness, less focus, more risk of illness
Read the arrows aloud as cause and effect. This is the key contrast of the lesson.
Why unhealthy habits can be tricky
Some habits are quick and easy
Some habits become routines
Good choices often need planning and practice
This slide helps students understand behaviour without blame. Emphasise that habits can change step by step.
Which is an unhealthy habit?
Brushing teeth
Drinking water
Sugary drinks often
Getting enough sleep
Builds the healthy/unhealthy contrast from slides 7 to 10.
Which unhealthy habit can make focus worse?
Too much junk food
Not sleeping enough
Too much screen time
All of them
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Small habits, big effects
Healthy habits can give us more and better focus. Unhealthy habits can cause and a bigger risk of illness. Good choices often need and practice.
Correct answers in order: energy, tiredness, planning.
Spotting healthy pictures
A healthy picture usually shows an action that helps the body or mind, such as:
eating healthy food
drinking water
exercising
sleeping
washing hands or brushing teeth
Prepare students for the picture-based task by naming the visual signs of healthy habits.
Look for helpful clues
Is the person caring for their body?
Does the action give health, rest or cleanliness?
Is it something we should do regularly?
If yes, it is probably a healthy habit
These clues support students in choosing the three healthy images in the later game.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Water is usually a healthy choice
Exercise is a healthy habit
Sleep is a healthy habit
Too much junk food is an unhealthy habit
Keep examples closely aligned with the pictures students are likely to see.
Choose with confidence
To find the three healthy pictures, think:
Does this help health?
Is it good to do often?
Does it support a strong body or calm mind?
This closes the lesson arc by returning to the central idea: healthy habits are the actions that support health over time.
Which three pictures should you choose to win?
Water, sleep, exercise
Sweets, screens, cola
Junk food, water, cola
Screens, sleep, sweets
This directly prepares students for the final picture game with three healthy choices.
Look for healthy clues
A healthy picture shows an action that helps the or mind. Drinking , exercising and washing hands are healthy habits. If it is good to do , it is probably a healthy habit.
Correct answers in order: body, water, regularly.
How do you know a picture shows a healthy habit?
Students can mention clues such as helps the body, gives rest, keeps clean, good to do often, healthy food, water, sleep or exercise.
What is one healthy habit you will remember?
Reflection only. Encourage simple answers about one thing learned, such as water, sleep, exercise, or washing hands.
What helped you choose healthy pictures today?
Reflection only. Students may mention the clues, the examples, or the healthy/unhealthy contrast.
Glossary
habit - something you do often
healthy - good for your body or mind
unhealthy - not good for your body or mind
exercise - physical activity that helps keep you fit
hygiene - keeping yourself clean to stay healthy
energy - strength to move, learn and do things
focus - attention on what you are doing
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