Activities

During the Rural High School Visit the NRHSN students will undertake many hands-on activities with the students to help them get a feel for and better understanding of health careers and education.

Some possible activities include:

Ice-breaker questions

This activity helps to start off the session in a fun way.

Problem Based Learning Cases

This activity gives the students and opportunity to problem solve.

Thickened Fluids

This activity helps the students to hear what happens in the body when you drink certain liquids.

Muscle Stimulation

This activity gives the students an opportunity to see how muscles in their body work.

Plastering

This is a fun activity where the students get a chance to have a finger or a hand plastered just like if they had broken or fractured a bone in their body. It also gives them an opportunity to ask the Rural Health Club students about health professions and tertiary studies.

Scrubs

This activity is a fun dress-up game where they get to mingle and find out more about all different health professions.

Gutsy Gus

This activity helps the students to discover how much they know about the human body.

Stethoscopes

This activity gives the students an opportunity to play around with a stethoscope and to see how it works.

Roleplay

This activity gives the students a chance to be creative, to problem solve and helps them to realise how many different health career roles there are and how they work together as part of a team.