AY Honor Healthy Choices Answer Key
Skill Level
2
Year
2025
Version
20.10.2025
Approval authority
Australian Union
1
- Step 1 Nutrition
- Step 2 Exercise
- Step 3 Water
- Step 4 Sunshine
- Step 5 Balance or Moderation
- Step 6 Air
- Step 7 Rest
- Step 8 Trust in God
There are many resources from various groups within the Adventist church that you can use to revise the health principles. It is always helpful to have the Pathfinders do this in an interactive way. One suggestion might be that you divide them into 8 groups and have assign them one of the 8 principles. Then have them either present it to the group or make up a picture on an 8 sectioned pie that represents that health principle.
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Use below as a guide for the methods to teach, it is helpful to use examples from your life when teaching these methods of how you have seen these methods used. In addition to the guide below please see the original source resource in the additional material section (McCoy, John W. (2016) The teaching methods of Jesus)
- Speaking with authority - Mark 1:22 and Matt 28:18. The Bible is our authority as it was for Jesus, although as the Son of God, He also had His own authority. We can use this in our everyday life by answering questions with “What does the Bible say?”.
- Using object lessons - Jesus calmed the storm, He pointed out the widow and her mite. A large percentage of people are visual learners, and these are greatly benefited by lessons told with tangible objects.
- Use of repetition - When something is repeated it is easier to remember the piece of information. One of the smartest people I have met, who was a Rhodes scholar, was able to remember anyone’s name after meeting them only once. I asked him about it one day and his response was that when someone introduced themselves to him, he would then use their name in the next three sentences he spoke.
- Story Telling - Jesus often presented important truths contained within His parables. This made them easy to remember and easy to understand, although sometimes His audience missed the point as illustrated by the disciples often asking for an explanation.
- Teachable moments - Christ used opportunities that presented themselves to convey important truths to those He came into contact with. A great example is the incident with Martha and Mary in their home where Jesus used Martha’s irritation with her sister as a teachable moment.
- Sayings and word pictures - “The blind leading the blind” and “pearls to pigs” are two examples Jesus used to help His hearers to understand and remember what He was saying. These sayings help to capture the hearer's attention, encouraged them to reflect on the saying and helped them to remember His words.
- Get their attention - Jesus often used hyperbole to get across an important point. An example is the log in your eye or that you should cut off your hand if it causes you to sin. Jesus was using exaggerated statements to help His listeners understand important points in their spiritual journey.
- Humor or Wit - What father would give his son stones to eat is an example of Jesus using a funny statement to get a point across.
- Using His testimony - Using this method turns textbook knowledge into related knowledge that people could associate with their own lives.
- Experiential learning - It is the process of making meaning from direct experiences. Jesus called His disciples to now go and do what I have taught you. People love to hear that the things they are experiencing have been experienced by others. It is the whole reason Christ came to the earth to save us. He lived as we did, and we can relate to his experience as He can relate to ours.
- Questioning - Jesus often used questions to help his hearers understand. Questions should challenge, be clear, specific and brief to be effective at assisting with understanding. It is a great way to challenge people to put what they are learning into their language and thus help them to remember the point.
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This is a great opportunity for the pathfinders to start to put into practice what they have learned. It is a different skill to be able to tell others about what you have learned. This is a great opportunity for the pathfinders to choose the teaching method that best suits them and use it to convey a message to the rest of the group.
The Pathfinders can also use this method to convey a message to those who you have invited to your event. The Pathfinders could use a play, make a presentation, tell a personal story or use a lecture style for example.
4
This is the great part where we can guide our pathfinders to take what they have learned and share it with the community of your choosing. This might be the pathfinder families, it might be your church family, or you may choose to invite members of your surrounding community. It is amazing what a witness a group of Pathfinders can be when they are allowed to be witnesses for the king of the universe.
The event could involve a cooking demonstration or have the pathfinders cook healthy deserts for people to sample. At your event you could have the pathfinders use creative ways to present the health messages to participants. These could be similar to those used in requirement 3 and ideally would involve the whole honor group in some part of the event much like a church family running an evangelistic event.
5
The church is the body of Christ, and we are all his witnesses. What we have learned we are commanded to take to all the world and then will the end come. Encourage your Pathfinders to learn this verse in a practical why by challenging them to apply it to their lives.
6
Though there is no substitute for learning our Bible these passages in Ellen White-s writings give us a wonderful challenge to take all that we have learned about health and share it with our community.
Provide your Pathfinders with a copy of these passages and have them compose a 200-word piece on how this challenge can be applied to their lives. If they do not want to write it down have them present it as a testimony to the group or to your church.
Counsels on Health - Section 9
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