Introduction Unit

Bell RingerWith your shoulder partner answer the

following questions1. What is does it mean to be healthy?

Write down 3 examples.– Exercise and diet CANNOT be an example!

2. Describe a person who could be a poster child for health. What makes them healthy?

Student Learning Map

Key Learning:1. Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. 2. Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Student Learning Map

Unit Essential Question:How will you use the information you learned

during this unit everyday for the rest of your life?

Student Learning Map

Concept:Wellness Wheel

Lesson Essential Question:What is health?

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Vocabulary:Health Education, Health Literacy, Physical,

Emotional, Mental, Environmental, Spiritual, Occupational, Intellectual

wellness. Personality, Self- Esteem, Self- Efficacy, Character, Conceit, Self- Respect.

Wellness Wheel

NOTE: As you write the definitions, paraphrase and use examples if you need a better understanding of the

term.

Wellness Wheel

Physical WellnessThe ability to maintain a healthy quality of life that allows us to

get throughout daily activities without fatigue or physical stress. The ability to recognize that our wellness and adopting healthful

habits while avoiding destructive habits will lead to optimal health.

Wellness Wheel

Emotional WellnessThe ability to understand ourselves and cope with the

challenges life can bring. The ability to acknowledge and share feelings of anger, fear, sadness or stress; hope, love, joy, happiness in a productive manner contributes to our

Emotional Wellness.

Wellness Wheel

Social WellnessThe ability to relate to and connect with other people in our world. Our ability to establish and maintain positive

relationships with family, friends and co-workers contributes to our social wellness.

Wellness Wheel

Spiritual WellnessThe ability to establish peace and harmony in our lives. The ability to develop congruency between values and

actions and to realize a common purpose that binds creation together contributes to our Spiritual Wellness.

Wellness Wheel

Occupational WellnessThe ability to get personal fulfillment from our jobs or our chosen career fields while maintaining balance in our lives. Our desire to contribute in our careers to make a positive impact on the organizations we work in and to society as a

whole leads to occupational wellness.

Wellness Wheel

Environmental WellnessThe ability to recognize our own responsibility for the

quality of air, the water and the land that surrounds us. The ability to make a positive impact on the quality of our

environment, be it our homes, our communities or our planet contributes to our Environmental Wellness.

Wellness Wheel

Intellectual WellnessThe ability to open our minds to new ideas and

experiences that can be applied to personal decisions, group interaction and community betterment. The desire to learn new concepts, improve skills and seek challenges

in pursuit of lifelong learning contributes to our intellectual wellness.

Wellness Wheel

• Work with your shoulder partner.• On your Wellness Wheel (page 1)• Give 2 examples of how someone can practice

healthy habits for each dimension of the wellness wheel.– Everyone writes the examples.

Health Vocabulary

• Lifestyle Factors: habits that affect how long a person lives (quality of life).

• Risk behaviors: actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.

• Healthful Behaviors: actions that keep you and others safe and free from harm and injury.

Health Vocabulary

• Wellness: an overall state of well-being. Having a good quality of life.

• Prevention: practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury.

• Health education: the providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.

Health Vocabulary

• Health literacy: a person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness.

• Cumulative risks: related risks that increase in effect with each added risk

• Abstinence: avoiding harmful behaviors

Health VocabularyQUESTION!

1. What is the difference between health education and health literacy?

(please write the answer on a piece of loose leaf paper)

2. Below the definition of each vocabulary term, list an example.

(Example: life style factors: smoking cigarettes daily or eating a balanced diet)

Wellness Vocabulary

Mental and Emotional Health: The ability to accept yourself and others,

express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your

life.

Wellness Vocabulary• Character: a person’s use of self control to act

on responsible values.• Self-Control: is the degree to which a person

regulates his or her own behavior.• Self-esteem: is one’s belief about one’s own

worth.– Positive self esteem= believing that you are

worthy and deserve respect

Wellness Vocabulary• Self- efficacy: a person’s belief in his or her

capacity or ability to perform a behavior or skill in a desired way.

• Self-respect: a high regard for oneself because one behaves in responsible ways.

• Conceit: excessive appreciation of one’s own worth.

How do you see Yourself?• Use the small line provided to rate yourself on each of

the Wellness Vocabulary terms.– 1 (low) - 5 (high)• Character• Self-control• Self Esteem• Self-efficacy• Self-respect• Conceit

• Write 1 sentence next to the “X”, explaining why you ranked yourself at that number for each term.

How can you improve your Self-Esteem

• Discuss what you could do to improve your self- esteem.– Choose your groups top 4.– Write 1 on each piece of paper given to you.– Put paper into the bin.

• Work in the designated groups of 4.

People who have High Self-Esteems....

1. Are more proactive in making important decisions.

2. Take responsibility for their health3. Rely on their own judgment and make

responsible decisions.4. Have a firm foundation for difficult times and

know the difficult times will pass.5. Do NOT worry about failing.

People who have High Self-Efficacy…

Are confident in his or her capacity and ability to perform a behavior or skill in a desired way.

Question: What is the difference between self-esteem and self-efficacy?

Question: What are 2 benefits from having a high self-esteem?

Personality

• Personality: an individual’s unique pattern of characteristics.

Describe your personality. (3 sentences)

Influences on Personality

1. Heredity helps determine one’s intellectual abilities,

temperament and talents. Might influence athletic and artistic capabilities as well as

resiliency.

Influences on Personality

2. Environment: everything around a person; influences the

opportunities the person has.

Influences on Personality

3. Attitudes: a person’s attitudes show through in the

person’s personality.

Influences on Personality

4. Behavior: what a person does, will affect their personality.

Personality Characteristics That Promote Good Health

• Ambition• Compassion• Confidence• Cooperativeness• Dedication• Determination• Discipline• Enthusiasm• Generosity• Honesty

• Loyalty• Optimism• Patience• Persistence• Reliability• Resilience• Respectfulness• Responsibility• Sincerity

Put the characteristics from the list that you possess in the box.

• Ambition• Compassion• Confidence• Cooperativeness• Dedication• Determination• Discipline• Enthusiasm• Generosity• Honesty

• Loyalty• Optimism• Patience• Persistence• Reliability• Resilience• Respectfulness• Responsibility• Sincerity

Question

Choose 5 of the characteristics listed above and give 1 example of how that characteristic

promotes good health.

You may work with your shoulder partner.