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RSHEEveryday physical health20 min★ difficulty

Sleep, movement and food as decisions

Health advice often arrives as rules. It works better as decisions, because a decision can be adjusted to fit an actual life.

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Understand sleep, exercise and healthy eating as everyday health decisions

Key learning points

  • • Sleep
  • • Movement
  • • Food

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 16 parts to scroll through
  • 4 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

exercisehealthyeatingeverydayhealth

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Sleep, movement and food as decisions

An English teaching video on this topic from ClickView. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Understand sleep, exercise and healthy eating as everyday health decisions

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Sleep

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Sleep

Most teenagers need around eight to ten hours. Body clocks shift later during adolescence, so falling asleep early is genuinely harder — that is biology, not laziness. Light from screens delays sleep further, and a regular wake time steadies the whole system faster than a regular bedtime.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Movement

Roughly an hour a day of moderate activity, spread out, plus something that loads muscle and bone a few times a week. Walking, dancing, cycling and climbing stairs all count. Consistency beats intensity at this age.

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Quick check

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Quick check

How much sleep do most teenagers need?

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Quick check

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Quick check

Why is falling asleep early harder in adolescence?

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Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Food

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Food

A balanced plate has starchy carbohydrates, protein, plenty of fruit and vegetables, some dairy or alternatives, and small amounts of oils. No single food is forbidden. Skipping meals to control weight usually backfires, and any worry about eating is worth raising with an adult early.

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Quick check

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Quick check

Which is the more effective change to make first?

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Quick check

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Quick check

What does a balanced plate include?

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Explore the idea

Part 12 of 16

Worked example

Worked example: adjusting one thing

Someone falling asleep at 1 a.m. and waking exhausted does not need a whole new routine. Change one thing: a fixed wake time, with light and breakfast soon after. Within a week or two the sleepy point moves earlier by itself. One sustainable change beats five that last three days.

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Challenge round

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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

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Challenge round

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Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

Skipping meals to control weight usually backfires, and any worry about ____ is worth raising with an adult early.

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Sleep, movement and food as decisions

4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. How much sleep do most teenagers need?

  2. 2. Why is falling asleep early harder in adolescence?

  3. 3. Which is the more effective change to make first?

  4. 4. What does a balanced plate include?

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

Quiz score

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Points this lesson

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Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 4 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

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.

Case study

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

  1. What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
  2. Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
  3. Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.

  • Thinking it through

    Writing

    Write what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.

    6–8 sentences

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