Grade 10

Health & Active Living

Sources of Health Information

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Sources of Health Information 10
Big Ideas:
● Understanding strengths, weaknesses, and personal preferences helps us plan and achieve
our goals.
● Healthy choices influence, and are influenced by, our physical, emotional, and mental
well-being.

Curricular Competencies:
● Identify and apply strategies to pursue personal healthy-living goals
● Analyze and explain how health messages might influence health and well-being
● Analyze how health-related decisions support the achievement of personal healthy-living
goals
● Reflect on outcomes of personal healthy-living goals and assess the effectiveness of various
strategies
● Analyze the potential effects of social influences on health

Content:
● Sources of health information - medical professionals, websites, magazine and TV
advertisements, retail stores (e.g., vitamin/supplement stores)
● Potential short- and long-term consequences of health decisions, including those involving
physical activity, healthy eating, sleep routines, and technology
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Sources of Health Information

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Let’s revisit our health goal...

● In late September / early October, you were asked

○ “What is a goal you could have to improve in one area of your
health this year?”

● Now, let’s consider …

○ How health messages might be influencing your health,
well-being, and pursuit of this personal healthy-living goal
○ Assessing the effectiveness of various strategies you are using
to work towards your goal
○ How health-related decisions support the progress and
achievement of your personal goals
○ Analyzing the social influences that may affect your health

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Health information validity

● Why is it important that we are critical of the

various sources that we receive health messages
from? Why does the source need to be valid (i.e.,
accurate, correct)?

● How could health information from a NOT

credible source influence our progress of
achieving our health goal?

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Commonly used sources

● When was the last time you …

○ Asked Siri a health-related question?

○ Searched and used information from Wikipedia?
○ Took opinions from blogs as fact?
○ Used Google to search for a medical information?
○ Used Instagram or other social media for healthy eating or
other health recommendations?
○ Bought a product because of the person advertising it or
because of the catchy slogan?

● Why must we be critical of all of the above sources?

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Activity

● Two Truths & A Lie

○ Search your commonly used social media and other popular media
to find the following about health:
■ 2 Truths
■ 1 Lie
○ Then:
■ Find 3 points to support or verify for the 2 Truths (How do you
know it is true?)
■ Find 3 points that oppose the lie (How do you know it is a lie?)
■ Re-state the lie to make it a true statement
○ You will share your truths, lie, and points with the class and lead
the discussions related to how sources of health messages
influence health and well-being.

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 Activity

● 20 Questions!
○ What questions should you ask yourself to best critique the sources of
information or the information itself? What do I need to ask to critically
evaluate the quality of the source and/or information?
■ Who is the source of this information?
■ What would this source know? Does he or she have training in the area?
■ When did the source get this knowledge? Recently? Might it have changed?
■ Where did the source get this knowledge? Research? Training? Work experience?
■ How does this source know this information? Could I confirm the source’s
information through government records, other documents, further reporting or
other sources?
■ . . . *BRAINSTORM OTHERS*
○ How does this analysis affect me? Does it impact or change my goal?
○ What is my goal? How do health sources/information influence me and
my goal?

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Resources & Final thoughts

So where do we find authentic health resources?

➢ Talk to a health care professional – your family doctor

➢https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/

Critically analyze everything you read,

and question its authenticity.