Body Image6th -7th

Web

Body Image

Media

Self-esteem

Peer pressure

Physical constitutionHealth

I want my students learn to…

1. Understand the term body image and how a positive body image is an important component to overall self-esteem.

2. Analyze the social consequences of media messages and its influence of their own and culture beliefs.

3. Know more about healthy eating options and benefits of a it and an active lifestyle.

4. Identify the risk for the develop of eating disorders among students.

My centers

Websites

• Food a fact of life (Interactive website for teens)

• Healthy kids

• Body Image (website)

Books & Readings

• To read more about:• Health Obesity (reading)• Overweight & Obesity (website)• Body Image across cultures (reading)• MyPyramid

Media & Videos

Optional • Dying to be Thin (video documentary)• Eating Disorder Ad (0:38)• Eating Disorder Ad 2 (0:33)

• Body Image: Media Vs. Mind

Artifacts

• Female body image poster – To paste in the classroom as support material.

• Photos of female friends and relatives

• Fashion magazines

• MyPyramid Poster

Task Card 1

• Media messages about body shape and size will affect the way we feel about ourselves and our bodies only if we let them. One of the ways we can protect our self-esteem and body image from the media's often narrow definitions of beauty and acceptability is to become a critical viewer of the media messages we are bombarded with each day. When we effectively recognize and analyze the media messages that influence us, we remember that the media's definitions of beauty and success do not have to define our self-image or potential.

• Challenge: Divide a paper board in a half and then paste in one half of it at least 12 women that appear in it. In the other half paste the photos of your female relative and friends.

• Reflection question: At the bottom of you will write down the answer to this question: “Do the the women of the magazines look like the women around you?”

Task Card 2

Teens seem to don't care about their eating habits and their priorities are more with friends, sports and homework. Adolescence is also a time of rapid growth and development that makes healthy eating habits even more important. That's why is so important that teenagers are encouraged to make nutritious food choices.

• Challenge: Plan a menu for a day! Using the MyPyramid Poster you should plan a healthy menu that include breakfast, lunch, after-school snack, dinner or bedtime snack.