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Being a Health Advocate

Tenth graders learn to advocate for health — using their voice and reliable evidence to promote healthier choices and environments for themselves, their peers, and their community.

Grade 10Advocacy50 minutes1 class periodSHAPE / Skills-BasedExplicit teaching4 StandardsSHAPE
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Explain health advocacy.
  • ✓Use reliable evidence.
  • ✓Craft a health message.
  • ✓Promote healthy change.
Essential Question

You can do more than make healthy choices for yourself — you can help others, too. That’s advocacy. How do you advocate for health effectively?

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Interactive Task
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Health Advocacy Check

Project each item and have students answer about health advocacy. The tool explains speaking up with reliable evidence.

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Answer each question about being a health advocate.
The Lesson · Health & PE Flow (Warm-Up · Learn · Practice · Apply · Cool-Down)

50 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Warm-Up — More Than Yourself

5 min

You can help others be healthy too — that’s advocacy. How?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask about a health issue they care about.
  • Preview advocacy.
  • Get ready.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Reflect.
  • Consider.
  • Get ready.
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Learn — Advocacy

12 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Health Advocacy Check.
  • Note reliable sources.
  • Note real examples.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Answer.
  • Note it.
  • Reflect.
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Practice — Practice

14 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Pick a health issue.
  • Find a reliable source.
  • Draft a message.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Pick one.
  • Find it.
  • Draft it.
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Apply — Apply

12 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Plan an advocacy action.
  • Support it with evidence.
  • Aim it at an audience.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Plan it.
  • Support it.
  • Aim it.
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Cool-Down — Cool-Down

5 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Explain advocacy.
  • Name a reliable source.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Explain it.
  • Name one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to SHAPE America National Health Education Standards.

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HE.8

Advocate for personal, family, and community health.

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HE.3

Access valid and reliable information.

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HE.5

Use decision-making in advocacy.

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HE.2

Analyze influences on health.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Advocacy example cards.
  • Sentence frame: “I advocate for ___.”
  • Use sample campaigns.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with “speak up to help.”
  • Use one clear example.
  • Name one source.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Design a full campaign.
  • Cite research.
  • Reach a decision-maker.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Projector / board
  • 📣Campaign examples
  • 💻Health Advocacy Check
  • 🔍A source checklist
  • ✏️Pens
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

advocacyspeaking up to improve healthadvocatea person who promotes a causecampaignan organized effort for changeevidencefacts that support a claimreliabletrustworthy and accurateaudiencethe people you reachmessagethe idea you sharecommunitythe people around you
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
What is health advocacy?
Speaking up and taking action to improve health for yourself and others.
QUESTION 2
Give one example of advocating for health at school.
Starting a campaign for healthier lunches or mental-health awareness.
QUESTION 3
What kind of source should support a health message?
Official health organizations and research — not just opinions.

Cool-Down: your health message.

Have students pick one health issue they care about and draft a one-sentence advocacy message backed by a reliable source. A printable advocacy sheet is in the PE & Health library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: advocacy, advocate, audience, campaign, community, evidence, message, reliable
  1. the people you reach
  2. the people around you
  3. a person who promotes a cause
  4. trustworthy and accurate
  5. speaking up to improve health
  6. an organized effort for change
  7. facts that support a claim
  8. the idea you share

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. What is health advocacy?
  2. Give one example of advocating for health at school.
  3. What kind of source should support a health message?
Answer key — Part A: 1) audience · 2) community · 3) advocate · 4) reliable · 5) advocacy · 6) campaign · 7) evidence · 8) message
Part B: 1) Speaking up and taking action to improve health for yourself and others. 2) Starting a campaign for healthier lunches or mental-health awareness. 3) Official health organizations and research — not just opinions.