1. Do Now
Turn to Chapter 2 Skills for a Healthy Life p Take the What’s Your Health IQ Quiz. Answer the 7 questions on the Quiz by indicating how frequently you engage in each of the following behaviors (1 = never; 2 = occasionally; 3 = most of the time; 4 = all of the time). Total your points, and then turn to p. 638

2. What’s Your Health IQ
I review all of my choices before I make a decision
I think about the outcome for each possible choice
I make decisions that support my beliefs.
I think about the decisions I make afterward so that I can learn from them.
I stop to think about who might be affected by the decisions I make.
I usually ask for advice when I have a tough decision to make
If I make a bad decision, I try to correct an problem my decision caused

3. Skills for a Healthy Life
Chapter 2
Skills for a Healthy Life

4. Standards National Health Education Standards
1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.2, 5.4, 6.3

5. Lesson Objective IWBAT
Assess my behavior in regards to making decisions by answering a Health IQ Questionnaire. I will then use this information as a way to analyze and improve upon those decision making skills.

6. Lesson Objective IWBAT
Evaluate my decision making skills and predict the immediate and long-term consequences of those decisions. I will then apply decision making strategies learned in this chapter to affectively make the best possible choices for me and the people I care about.

7. Do Now
Write a short paragraph describing all the possible decisions you could make if you were to find yourself in a situation in which a friend is pressuring you to sneak out of the house to go to a party. Identify all of the stages you would go through to make the decision.
Hint:
Think about the making great decision model when you write your paragraph

8. Building Life Skills What are Life Skills?
They are the tools or skills you would need to build a healthy life.
Just like you need skills to build a house, you also need skills to build a happy, healthy life.
For example, just like a carpentar or mechanic need tools to build a home or rebuild a car.

9. 10 Important Life Skills Life Skills: Assessing Your Health
Communicating Effectively
Practicing Wellness
Coping
Being a Wise Consumer
Evaluating Media Messages
Using Community Resources
Making Great Decisions
Using Refusal Skills
Setting Goals

10. 10 Important Life Skills Assessing Your Health
Using this skill to help you evaluate and then reflect on how your actions and behaviors affect your health. Ultimately helping you to make better decisions when it comes to your health.
Communicating Effectively
This skill will teach you good communication skills by teaching you how to listen and speak effectively. It will help to improve your relationships with your family, friends, classmates, teachers, and other adults

11. 10 Important Life Skills Practicing Wellness Coping
The process of practicing healthy Behaviors on a daily basis
Examples
Eating healthy
Avoiding risky behaviors
Getting enough sleep
Coping
Ability to deal with troubles or problems in an effective way.
Being a Wise Consumer
Helping you to make wise decisions when you buy health products and services. This will help you decide what is appropriate for you

12. 10 Important Life Skills Evaluating Media Messages
This skill will help you analyze media messages, being able to determine which messages might be harmful to your health.
Using Community Resources
Knowing how to find and use resources, supports, and services in your community to help provide help for all six components of health.
911
Suicide Hotlines
Library
Clinics
Example would be the media using buzz words like all natural, and low fat.

13. 10 Important Life Skills Decision Making
You probably make 100s of decisions a day without even thinking about it or giving it a second thought.
The clothes you wear
Hitting the snooze button
Meals
What to do afterschool
All decisions come with consequences,
Good or Bad
Consequences
Are the results of your actions and decisions

14. 10 Important Life Skills Decision Making
Decision Making Model:
This model requires you to think about the consequences before making a decision.
You are more likely to make decisions that have positive consequences

15. Decision Making Decision Making Model: Give Thought to the problem
Take a minute to pause
Review your choices
Think about all possible choices even ones that might not be obvious
Evaluate the consequences of each choice
Short term and long term
Assess and choose the best choice
Make your choice based on your values and what’s important
Think it over afterward
Reflect and evaluate if the decision had a positive outcome

16. Decision Making Final Thoughts What if you make a poor decision?
Everyone makes mistakes.
However, the important thing is to try and deal with them as soon as possible and in a positive way.
Wrong decisions can be dangerous to you and the people around you.
What if you make a poor decision?
Stop
Think Go

17. “Exit Slip” Tree of Choice
Think of a situation in which you would have to make an important decision. Begin to draw a “decision making tree” by writing at the base of the tree a two to three word description of the situation. You will then draw two or more branches labeled with the possible choices you would have in making this decision. For each choice, draw one or two branches labeled with a brief description of the possible consequences, good and/or bad, of each decision. After evaluating all the choices, choose the best choice