1. Understanding Health & Wellness
Chapter 1 Lessons 1,2,3
Understanding Health & Wellness
- Health & Wellness
- Promoting Healthy Lifestyle
- Reducing Health Risks

2. Lesson Objective
Students will be able to understand ways that healthful behaviors and decisions can promote wellness and will be able to describe types of factors that can influence health.

3. Setting Up Journal Date (write it for each question!)
What does it mean to be healthy?
What are some everyday decisions teens face that can affect their health? 2. 3. 4.

4. 2 journal Entries Per page…draw a line to separate the entries
#1 To be healthy means……… #2
2 journal Entries Per page…draw a line to separate the entries

5. What can impact your health?

6. Health – is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social wellbeing.
HEALTH CONTINUUMN

7. Wellness – balance / total health
Health Triangle (p 7)
3 Parts of Health
Physical Health – body functions
- exercise, food,
2) Mental/Emotional Health- feelings & thoughts
- coping, emotions,
*spiritual health – deep seated sense of meaning and purpose
3) Social Health – way get along with others
- friends, communication
Wellness – balance / total health

8. Influence on your Health Can control and Can’t control
1) Heredity – all the traits that are biological (Good or Bad)
2) Environment – is the sum of your surroundings
- physical environment
- social environment
- culture- customs and behaviors of a group
3)Attitude- way you view situations
4) Behavior – how you act
5) Media & Technology – media – various methods of communicating. Info delivered via technology (radio, tv, internet)
.gov and .org (professional organizations)
Website check health info

9. Part of environment

10. Lack of Physical Activity Behaviors result injury
Protective Factor – taking action to reduce your exposure to health risks
Risk Behaviors– actions that threaten your health
Center for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) Risk Behaviors in Teens
Tobacco use
Alcohol & drugs
Sexual behaviors
Poor Diet
Lack of Physical Activity
Behaviors result injury

11. Write a Protective Factor and Risk Factor For each Influence on your Health
Heredity –
(+) Grandparents living to 90
(-) breast cancer in family
2) Environment –
(+) good school system
(-) poor family life
3)Attitude-
(+) positive thing will work out
(-) poor attitude
4) Behavior –
(+) exercise
(-) drugs
5) Media /Technology
(+) new health information
(-) negative characters in TV

12. Teen risk taking

13. Reduce Risks More positive health behaviors – good for you
Prevention – taking steps to keep something from happening

14. PARTNER RULES for comic strip
1. Look at your partner when they are talking.
2. Don’t let other things distract you.
3. Let your partner express their views.
4. Stay focused on the question/task.
5. Say more than one or two words.
6. Use one paper for scrap paper and one for the good copy!