BTEC LEVEL1/2 TECH AWARD in Health & Social Care: Definition of health & wellbeing

Introductory power point lesson focuses on essential content A1. Factors affecting health & wellbeing: Definition of health & wellbeing: a combination of physical health and social and emotional wellbeing, and not just the absence of disease or illness.

Students to identify the health issues on each of the images: Chicken pox, flu, broken bone, hay fever, eczema, stress. Explain that stress is also a health issue and not just a headache which may be a common misconception
Component three learning objectives shared on slide & summary of essential content A, B and C shared.
Planning for progress grid included in slides which include learning objectives.

I would recommend you tube link to introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGxPL37j234 as an introductory video to what is health & wellbeing and is embedded on the power point.
Students spilt their page into four. They have two minutes to write/ draw/annotate information that they know about health and wellbeing. I.e.; what types of health? What illnesses? What is wellbeing? Instructions on slide.

Negative and positive view of health is shown on the slide and a discussion of holistic and why it is important to consider this when looking at health should be conducted. Students should explain in their exercise books what holistic means and why it is important to health.

Four images shown on the power point. Students to discuss the four examples and justify whether they should be considered as healthy or not based on the information provided. Students should be prepared to feed back.

Different aspects of health are shown and students are to discuss what aspects they believe come under each type of health involves. Students to copy down the holistic diagram with a short explanation. This is repeated for wellbeing.

The different types of health are explained and it should also be linked into mental health and how it is our ability to cope with everyday life’s and the stress and worries that they bring. If we cope well we can maintain a good mental health and therefore able to think clearly.

Test your knowledge questions based on learning worth 5 marks.
Task: You want to discover if a person aged either 18, 30 or 45 has a good health and wellbeing. Write 6 questions for one person from one of the ages to answer so it can be anaylsed to see if they are healthy or not.
There must be at least one question based on physical, social, emotional and intellectual health. Students may then peer assess one another’s work.

Following BTEC LEVEL 1/2 TECH AWARD IN HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE. First teaching September 2017 and first certification Summer 2019.