One Health Activities for Community Settings
One Health Activities for Community Settings
These activities are designed to be used in diverse informal education and community settings. They are designed to be engaging for a variety of learners and are easy to implement. These activities require few or inexpensive materials and are highly adaptable to different learning environments, group sizes, and ages.
Each Activity Guide includes information about how to prepare for the activity, suggested procedure and adaptations, and any print materials for the activity.
The “One Health” Approach: An Activity Tool
Discover One Health and experience how the health of humans, animals, and the environment are interconnected! Use One Health concepts to deepen your understanding of an environmental or health-related concept by completing challenge stations, participating in collaborative discussions, and a creative project. This Activity Tool is best used to review or reflect on previous learning on an environmental or health-related topic of your choice. It can be used with many of the following activities.
Recommended for:
Ages 6 to adult | Groups of 3-18 | 1.5-2 hours (divisible) | Adaptable for public events
One Health as a Tool for Informal Assessment
Use a One Health lens to evaluate participants’ prior knowledge, make personal connections, and conduct an informal assessment of an environmental or health-related program. Brainstorm about connections to human, animal, and environment health – and don’t be afraid to think outside the box! This Activity Tool is best used to begin and end a program on an environmental or health-related topic of your choice. It can be used with any of the following activities.
Recommended for:
Ages 8 to adult | Groups of 5-30 | 30 minutes
Do Bees Feed You?
Does your favorite food depend on bees? Use a card sorting game to discover what foods depend on pollinators, then consider the foods in your own diet.
Recommended for:
Ages 6 to adult | Groups of 1-20 | 30-45 minutes | Adaptable for public events
Meet the Billion Dollar Bees
Meet some of the bees that help grow your food and learn about their superpowers! Use a card sorting game to learn how the food supply and the economy depend on many species of bees. Then, assemble teams of super-bees to create some favorite recipes. Adaptable for other states.
Recommended for:
Ages 8 to adult | Groups of 1-20 | 45 minutes | Adaptable for public events
Bees and Biodiversity
Bees do more than just pollinate flowers! What happens if you remove bees from an ecosystem? Construct an ecosystem model and discover the many ways that bees support biodiversity.
Recommended for:
Ages 6 to adult | Groups of 1-20 | 30-45 minutes
A Bee’s Life
Test your bee knowledge in this trivia twist on the classic game of Chutes and Ladders. Successfully answer questions about bee adaptations, pollination and our food, evolutionary obstacles and environmental challenges to climb ladders or avoid slides. Prior knowledge about bees and pollination is recommended but not required.
Recommended for:
Ages 8 to adult | Groups of 1-20 | 20-45 minutes
A Mosquito-Friendly Yard?
Are our yards and other outdoor spaces hiding mosquito habitat? How can you safely manage mosquito populations in outdoor spaces? Learn how to interrupt the mosquito life cycle, attract mosquito predators, and protect yourself from mosquito bites and mosquito-borne disease. Develop an action plan for making an outdoor space of your choice less mosquito friendly.
Recommended for:
Ages 10 to adult | Groups of 1-30 | 30-45 minutes
Mosquito Tag
How do mosquitoes spread disease? Simulate the spread of mosquito-borne disease with this variation on the game of tag. Try different game modes to explore how real-world conditions influence the spread of mosquito-borne disease.
Recommended for:
Ages 8 to adult | Groups of 10+ | 20-30 minutes
Mosquitoes and a Changing Climate
Mosquito activity across the United States is changing. Learn about the mosquito life cycle and how weather affects mosquito populations. Interpret maps and graphs from scientific research to explore how climate change and an invasive species of mosquito could lead to an increase in mosquito-borne disease.
Recommended for:
Ages 12 to adult | Groups of 1-30 | 30-45 minutes | Adaptable for public events