Kids only please. Help teaching a high school health class?

I volunteer to give mental health presentations to high school kids.

My organization wants to know how we can hold your attention better during a lecture! :) We're not as cool or as interesting as your cell phones or video games so you get bored easily.

What can we do to engage kids to participate more and keep their attention? Thanks.

Try giving the lecture in the way that you don't always give it? Make it a gentle, non-invading lecture that's not always the same screaming? Us "kids", (and you should just say "people") like anyone else, don't enjoy being screamed at, and that usually just makes us more upset and we don't even want to listen to you anymore. Hopefully that clears something up a little.

Best advice I can give is talk to us like we aren't children like we are equals and give us a hands on learning experience.

Not be so serious. You have to get down on the students' level. Be "cool".

im a kid and my sister is in high school mabey fun it up well u could have mabey a pep rally and give your speach there yea do that its comeing from a kid just in case that doesnt work out ask some kids in that school i would and dont settel for crap just have fun with it get kids to help

Include things they can do like talking about things that relate to everyone. I really don't know, lectures are never fun. just don't make them too long.

IF I MAY BE SO BOLD TO SUGGEST ; ASK THEM "WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW OF A ANSWER TO "HOW YOU COULD CURE CANCER"?? WHO WOULD YOU SHARE THE INFORMATION WITH ?? AND ANYONE CAN DO IT !! PLEASE, ON GOOGLE, LOOK UP "DR JOHANNA BUDWIGS CANCER DIET" SPREADING KNOWLEDGE TO OUR YOUNG IS TO ME ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS IN ONES LIFE AS SPECIALLY IF ITS TRUE

well what type of health is it first if sex you already get half the kids attention anyways.
Either way though we (the kids) will complain if you make us do an worksheet thats about are knowledge... but do make it a involved class have the kids tune it to what your saying (and if you ask question many won't raise their hand mainly because they really don't care, and know your going to give the answer anyways). Maybe have an some thing graphic if possible like a slide show if make you lose about 5% of the class but they been gone for a long time so dont worry about that.
Short phase to all this, pictures in a powerpoint slide show, movie (thats not from the olden days at 2000), questions with no answer (if makes us think and stay intune but generally we wont give you an answer), something on though lines and you will get more of the classes attention than you would just standing talking no matter what your going to have some that just doesnt care