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Description

Test everyone’s knowledge of healthy lifestyle dos and don’ts, before putting together TV adverts to help the masses.

https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/this-is-a-public-health-announcement/

Resources

Pens or pencils
A4 paper
Access to a computer
A video camera or device that can record video and audio, one per group

Instructions

Get quizzical

Everyone should split into small groups. The person leading the activity should give a computer or mobile device with internet access to each group, as well as pens or pencils and paper.

Tell the groups to do research and find out everything they can about the following subjects: Sleep guidelines and benefits, Healthy and balanced diets, Dangers of smoking, Alcohol and drugs, and Ways to quit smoking, alcohol and drugs.

It may be easier to have each group focus on one of these topics. If you’ve collected hard copy resources for the group to use instead of the internet, then you should make sure that they have the necessary data to research their topic.
Give everyone 15 minutes to do their research. Encourage the groups to write down facts and figures that they discover.

When this time has passed, the person leading the activity should ask the 'Quiz questions' in the attached file.

When all the questions have been asked, read out the answers. Everyone should try to write down the facts and figures they learned from doing the quiz.

Cameras, action!

Back in their groups, everyone should use what they have learned from their research and the quiz to prepare a one-minute TV advert, which should warn people about bad habits or advise people on good habits. This should take 45 minutes. Each person in each group should have a role in the advert and each group should make a script so that everyone can learn their lines and what they’re doing.

You might want to show some examples:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIr5cibbMzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwwx0aoBLtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Yh2-yVyFU


If they like, groups may prepare an advert on another topic related to healthy lifestyles, if they have enough information.

When about 20 minutes of the time has passed, the person leading the activity should give out the video cameras or devices that record video and audio. Before the time runs out, each group should have recorded their one-minute advert on the camera or device.

If the advert has a narrator, they could double as the cameraman. It may be that everyone has an acting role, so the person leading the activity should help by filming these adverts. Some groups might need to film in a different space, so that their audio is clear and other groups have space to work on their own productions. Groups with no access to recording devices should prepare to perform their advert in front of the rest of the group.

Everyone should watch one another’s creations.

If you have a computer, you could plug in the cameras or devices to show the adverts, or you could use a suitable television.

Tags

• creativity
• global issue
• healthy activity
• skills challenge

Badge Links

• Creative - Performing
• Entertainer - Write and Plan
• Global Issues - Educate
• Skills - Diet and Sleep
• Skills - Smoking, Drugs and Alcohol