Divided Time
Distribute the handout Balance Your Time and have students write down or draw pictures representing their entire Active, Learning and Screen time activities for the last week.
Circulate and prompt them with suggestions of things they might include in each category.
When students have completed the handout, give some examples of activities that might fit in more than one category, such as:
going for a nature hike (Active/Learning)
watching an educational TV show (Learning/Screen)
dancing while watching a music video (Active/Screen)
Have students go back to the handout and see if any of the activities they wrote down can fit in more than one category.
Next, ask students to look over the handout and see whether they have at least as many Active and Learning time activities as Screen time activities.
Ask students if they have ever done a similar exercise, in class or elsewhere. If so, ask them to reflect on what has changed since the last time they did.
Now have them write (using a different colour of pen or coloured pencil) or draw activities that they could do and would enjoy doing that would help to balance their lives.
