Reliable health information
Health claims should be checked for expertise, evidence, date, motive and agreement with trusted medical guidance.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Evaluate reliable sources of health information
Key learning points
- • Check the source
- • Act proportionately
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 10 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Reliable health information
An English teaching video on this topic from Oasis Mental Health Applications-Thrive Compass. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.
In a nutshell
Evaluate reliable sources of health information
Explore the idea
Part 2 of 10
Learn
Check the source
Look for named qualified authors, references to evidence, an update date and a clear distinction between information and advertising.
Explore the idea
Part 3 of 10
Learn
Act proportionately
Use NHS guidance for general information and a pharmacist, GP or emergency service according to urgency. Social posts cannot diagnose an individual.
Quick check
Part 4 of 10
Quick check
Which is strongest evidence?
Quick check
Part 5 of 10
Quick check
Why check the date?
Quick check
Part 6 of 10
Quick check
Can a social post diagnose you?
Challenge round
Part 7 of 10
Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 8 of 10
Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
Look for named qualified authors, references to evidence, an update date and a clear distinction between ____ and advertising.
Mastery quiz
Part 9 of 10
Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Reliable health information
3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Which is strongest evidence?
2. Why check the date?
3. Can a social post diagnose you?
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Your written work for this lesson
This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.
The group chat
Ellie is added to a class group chat with twenty-six people in it. At first it is jokes and homework questions. Then someone screenshots a private message from a girl in another class and posts it. Several people laugh. Two people leave the chat. Ellie says nothing, and feels bad about it that evening.
The next day the girl is off school. A teacher asks the class about the chat. Nobody wants to be the one who tells.
Staying silent can feel like the safest choice in the moment. It also leaves the person who was hurt on their own.
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Reading questions
- What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
- Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
- Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.
Thinking it through
WritingWrite what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.
6–8 sentences
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