ACCESSING INFORMATION AND ANALYZING

INFLUENCES

Opening Work: How can these two skills be used to encourage healthy behavior

HOW DO YOU THINK A PERSON CAN GET BETTER AT RECOGNIZING WHAT INFLUENCES HIM OR HER??

ACCESSING INFORMATION

What are the elements for accessing information

(focus on the health topics you are considering).• Identify sources of information

• What sources did you identify?

• Find needed help• When you need more than info, what other types of

help might be needed?• Where might you find this help?

• Determine what type of help a source offers• Determine why it is a good source

DETERMINE WHY IT IS A GOOD SOURCE?

Most important element

We have access to so much information.

We need to know what information we should trust.

Ask: Who? What? Where? When ? Why?*

After looking at “Think Critically” worksheet…

What other suggestions might you have for one

another?

ANALYZING INFLUENCES

Influences can be both internal: i.e. our needs,

wants, beliefs, and opinions.

Influences can be external: i.e. influence of people

and our environment

60 second brainstorm • One half of room brainstorm external influences• Other half of room brainstorm internal influences• Be prepared to report back

CASE STUDY

What are some of the influences you noticed ?

How do these influences affect choices?

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS

Partner up with someone who is working on the

same health topic

Re-read what you wrote and add any new thoughts

you might have.

Read one another’s documents and comment on

them, noting ways they can be strengthened

Use the skills posters for reference if needed.

CLOSURE

If you wanted to adopt healthy behaviors which

element of these two skills seems most important to

understand and remember?