Titles of these programs include Nutritionist, Diet Analyst and The Human Body. Many state health departments provide the health risk appraisal software free of charge. Students are challenged by quizzes that test their knowledge, and the simulations let them apply their knowledge and make choices in non-judgmental hypothetical situations. Health Works is an interactive health promotion computer game. A study of 3,829 New York City youth in grades five-eight found this video game took students beyond cognitive learning to experiential involvement in the subject matter.
Teens learn the negative impact of drug use with simulations.
A class is divided into three equal groups and assigned specific sections of a newspaper or newsletter to produce. For example, one group works on sports, one on nutrition, another on ads for fitness products they invent or create, one on violence and another on family issues. Each group uses a digital camera to take photos of items of interest to their paper section. A word processor is used for each group's separate section and all sections are later combined into a final product. A separate group functions on its own to put all the sections together on a desktop publishing program, and is responsible for the layout of graphics, scanning the photos, etc.