Students will learn about the risks associated with overconsumption of sugar by visualizing the amount of sugar in various drinks and common food items. Students will then create a resource that explains to peers the connection between sugar consumption and NCDs.

Students will learn about the essential role whole foods (fruits, vegetables, protein, etc.) play in our health and how they help to reduce the development of noncommunicable diseases. In addition, students will analyze typical grocery store designs and suggest potential innovations to help consumers choose whole foods.

Students work in teams to design the optimal menu for a meal to celebrate a special event. Teams are given guidelines on nutrition and costs and will use critical thinking to develop a healthy menu on a budget.

After reviewing the elements of a standard nutrition label, students will learn how to interpret ingredient lists, including learning if the order of ingredients matters, how to differentiate between naturally occurring ingredients and chemicals and draw conclusions about whether examples would be nutritious food choices.

This activity focuses on helping students understand key nutrients in foods that will help them grow. Students will explore the science behind nutritious food choices and will discover what is happening inside of their bodies when they eat and how eating a diet with less-processed foods will lower their risk for noncommunicable diseases.

Help put students on the path toward improving their eating habits as they learn how to apply dietary guidelines to nutritious meal plans they will create for themselves.

This activity focuses on the idea that healthy doesn’t have to mean tasteless. Upon reviewing their country’s dietary guidelines, students can develop modifications to their diet that will help them eat more healthily while still enjoying what they consume.

This digital lesson will guide students through an exploration of the link between physical activity and health. In stations, students will try different forms of physical activity, investigate how their body reacts to different types of exercise, and learn more about each activity’s specific positive effects. Students will then examine their current level of activity and create an action plan to help them work toward achieving 60 minutes of physical activity each day.

Building off the popularity and efficiency of YouTube workouts, student groups will collaborate to create the content for a short workout routine. They will learn the difference between aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening activities in order to create a routine that touches on three important types of physical activity. Students will then share their workout routines as they work toward accomplishing their 60 minutes of daily physical activity!

Clap, stomp, jump! Using creative combinations of these motions, students will develop challenging movement patterns to increase their heart rates through physical activity. Students will learn to measure their heart rates by taking their pulses.

In this session, students will learn about kinetic energy and demonstrate the effects of mass and speed on energy during a lab activity. Students will draw conclusions about the connections between kinetic energy, physical activity and reducing their risk of developing certain NCDs.

Students will review their sedentary hobbies, such as watching television or playing video games and design a physical activity challenge that will help them increase their physical activity during these hobbies. They will explain how their plan could help them reach their daily physical activity recommendations.

Classes will be tasked with planning a student-facing campaign that promotes physical activity by identifying a major barrier to being active and proposing how to overcome it. Students will create a tangible goal and then share their results as part of the campaign requirements.

Students will learn the basics of blood pressure by participating in a demonstration using balloons, water, and air. Building on that experience, they will learn what it means to have “high blood pressure” before evaluating lifestyle choices and their effects on heart health.

Allergy Alert: This activity uses a latex balloon.

Students will learn about nutrition and different types of physical activities, including cardio and seated. In this activity, students will learn the essential role that water plays for the body. They will also learn how they can recognize the signs that their bodies need fluids in order to understand how to meet daily intake needs to promote good health.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of how the body processes glucose and how overconsumption of foods with added sugars can play a role in increasing the risk of developing noncommunicable diseases such as heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. Students will develop models of the glucose molecule.

Students will learn how a healthy heart pumps blood through their bodies’ arteries by building a common model of a pumping heart. Then, they will learn about heart disease, how it affects the heart's ability to pump, and how this noncommunicable disease develops and can be prevented.

Students will learn about the body’s circulatory, digestive, and respiratory systems and how they are connected and work together for human wellness.

In this lesson, students will discover how Type 2 diabetes develops and what may be done to help reduce the risk of this noncommunicable disease. Students will then take the information they learned and create an infographic.

Students will break down the fundamental differences between communicable and noncommunicable diseases. They will investigate the common signs of noncommunicable diseases and reflect on ways everyday habits can impact the development of disease.

Students will compare the ways that alcohol, tobacco, and vaping can negatively affect a person’s health. They will then participate in a mock debate before deciding which risky behavior will pose the biggest risk to their future health based on their learning.

Students will learn how sleep affects almost every cell and function of our body, including blood pressure and cardiovascular health, and even affects the development of Type 2 diabetes. In this activity, students will learn about the importance of sleep in maintaining health and the effects that a lack of sleep can have on their overall health.

Students will learn the difference between health fads in the news and healthy habits that are scientifically sound. Students can then research recent health stories that made headlines and share their findings with the class.

Students will uncover the key role stress plays in mental health, well-being, and the development of noncommunicable diseases. After reflecting on everyday stressors in their lives, students will collaborate to develop effective stress-reduction techniques.