Unit One
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Health
Wellness
Physical Health
Emotional/ mental health
Social health
Reactive decision making
Proactive decision making
Inactive decision making
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Health is a condition of your mental,
emotional, physical, and social well-being.
How do you have good health?
• By making good decisions/choices and those
choices leading to habits.
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Decisions are made daily.
Three ways decisions are made:
 Proactive- examine decision to be made, identifies and
evaluates actions to take, selects an action, and takes
responsibility for the consequences of this action.
 Inactive- fail to make a choice and do not know what you
want to do. Put off making a decision and live with
whatever happens
 Reactive- Allow others to make the decision for you.
Usually you are influenced by what others do, think, and
say.
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Whose Fault Is It?
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Mental/ Emotional
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important as the other side, in order to have
good health.
When most of us think of health, we think of our
physical health.
 Physical health deals with the conditions of your
body. How can you maintain physical health:
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Think
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Share
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• Eat balanced meals
• Exercise
• Get 8 hours of sleep every night
• Maintain good hygiene
• Avoid drugs, alcohol, and tobacco
• Have regular check-ups (dental, vision,
eyes)
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Calculate the average number of hours you
sleep at night.
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How do you feel after getting very little sleep
one night?
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How do you wake yourself up the next
morning when receiving little sleep?
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Which of these responses are healthy/
unhealthy?
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What changes can we make to keep them in
balance?
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Draw a circle on your paper and divide it into
five pieces.
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Fill in the five spots as I read a list to you.
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Place a dot by each area, for every day you
practice that health behavior.
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This is how we express our feelings
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Sharing your emotions with other people is
important in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
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People who are emotionally healthy usually:
•Express their emotions in healthy ways
•Deal with sadness and ask for help if they need too
•Accept both their strengths and weaknesses ( accept
who you are)
•Find solutions to problems
•Find positive ways to manage stress
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One volunteer
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Tennis balls
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How did the catcher do when the tennis balls came at them slowly, one at a time?
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How did the catcher do when the tennis balls came at them faster, one at a time?
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How did the catcher do when the tennis balls were all tossed to them at one time?
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What can this activity tell us about stress in our lives?
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Let’s list the things that cause stress in our lives.
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What are some of the ways you handle stress in your life?
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Are there positive and negative ways to handle stress?
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What are the positive ways to handle stress?
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What are the negative ways to handle stress?
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Is stress always bad for us?
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What makes stress bad for us?
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What makes stress good for us?
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Groups of five
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1 piece of paper
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Pencil/ pen
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1 dice
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How easy was it to roll a 6?
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How high did you get in writing numbers?
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How easy was it to get the pencil when it was your turn to write? Did it change when the game got
closer to the end? How?
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When the activity first began, what was the level of excitement in your group?
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How did excitement change as people got closer to 50?
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How can we compare this to stress in our lives?
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How anxious do we feel about something that is going to happen a year down the road?
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How does your anxiety level change the closer the event gets to happening?
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Do we sometimes cause ourselves to be stressed when we don’t need to be?
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What are behaviors we exhibit when we are under stress?
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How does our behavior affect others?
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What are some negative ways that we can reduce anxiety or stress level about future events?
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What are some positive ways that we can reduce our anxiety or stress level about future events?
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How can we help others reduce their levels of stress?
Good Mental Health is:
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Being able to solve problems
Handling stress effectively and solving
problems
Openness to new ideas and ways of doing
things
Adapt/adjust to change
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How well you get along with others.
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It is your interaction with people.
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By learning social skills you can improve on how well you get
along with others.
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Ask yourself the following questions:
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Am I considerate of other people?
Do I show respect to others?
Am I dependable?
Do you share feelings with your friends?
Do you support friends when making good choices?
• Caring family member
• Making and keeping friends
• Giving and receiving support
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What are some healthy ways to let friends know
how you feel about them and their friendship
means to you?
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Happy Grams
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How can you improve social health when you are
bored?
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When you are bored you probably play video
games, what can you do instead of games?
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Groups of 4-6 students
Each group chooses a bullet from slide 18.
In your group, develop a skit for the social
skill assigned to your group.
10-15 minutes to come up with your skit
PRESENT!
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Balance health- turn to page 6 in the book.
Think-Pair-Share
What are the imbalances in the health
triangles of the four students?
What is a reason for temporary imbalances in
health triangles?
Title: My Health Triangle
Evaluate: Where do you spend most of your
time?
• Create: a triangle that represents your health
lifestyle.
• Label: each side appropriately
• Tell: why your triangle is equal or off balance
• Color: your triangle
Turn it in: in the appropriate class basket and with
your name on it.
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Well ness is more than just being healthy; it is
your overall state of well-being “total health”.
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To achieve wellness it is important, to make
good health a part of your daily routine.
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Every decision will affect your wellness ( i.e.
riding your bike or playing a video game; eating
healthy snacks, etc.) by starting to develop good
daily habits now, it will help to have positive
long-term effects on your health and wellness in
the future. (Think-pair-share).
 • Take care of your body
 • Deal with stress appropriately
 • Stay emotionally healthy by expressing your feelings
in a healthy way
 • Socially be considerate of others
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Exit Slip: Identify where your triangle is lacking.
Make a Health Behavior Contract. Turn it in as you
leave, you will get it back tomorrow to keep in your
3 ring binder.
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Homework: Ask a parent or adult at home to tell
you about an important health decision he/she
made as a teen. Ask what were their concerns about
appearance? Friends? Dating? Grades? Physical
Changes? Music? Recreation? Parents? What were
their greatest joys/ fears? Find out if it was the best
choice they could have made.
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Activity- Yarn Ball
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Quiz One: You will have 10 minutes to
complete quiz one.
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Heredity
Environment
Adolescence
Hormones
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Do you look more like one parent than the other?
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This is because your inherit traits or characteristics from your
parents.
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Heredity- is the passing of traits from parents to child.
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These traits help to determine your physical features.
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Some diseases are inherited…sickle cell anemia is inherited.
This disease causes blood cells to take the shape of an S and
cause small blood clots and cause pain.
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Other diseases such as diabetes, is affected by heredity and
other factors (your diet).
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Groups of 5
One pencil per team
One blank piece of paper for each team
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Which team was it better to be? The team with the highest or lowest score?
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Which person on your team was most important? Why?
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Which person was least important? Why?
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How much control do you have over their height? Explain.
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How would the world be if we were all the same height?
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How do the differences help make our world a better place?
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Should we judge other people by how tall or short they are? Why or why not?
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How does the way a person looks affect the way they feel about themselves?
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Should we judge people based on religion, physical handicaps, type of family
they come from, or external characteristics? Why or why not?
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Robert’s family moved from a ranch to a large
city. Robert started coughing a lot more and
his eyes were always itchy. His doctor said the
pollutants in the air might have caused his
allergies.
How many of you have ever moved?
You have to adapt or adjust to the new
surroundings.
The surroundings can affect your health.
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Your health can be affected by your environment.
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The environment is all of the living and non-living
things around you.
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Think-pair-share of things in the environment
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Examples: air pollution (secondhand smoke ), school,
home, friends, family, etc.
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What about another part of our health triangle?.
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Some things in the environment we cannot control.
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Adolescence
hormones
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During your teenage years there will be changes that affect all sides of
your health triangle. It is important to be able to adapt to these changes:
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Physical-
 Be physically active
 Eat nutritious meals and snacks
 Get enough sleep
 Avoid drugs, tobacco, and alcohol.
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Mental/ Emotional-
 Use critical thinking skills.
 Find positive ways to manage stress.
 Ask for help from trusted adults.
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 do your best to get along with others.
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Did anyone have a friend that grew over the summer time?
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Something that affects our physical growth is called adolescence.
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Adolescence is the time of life between childhood and adulthood. Usually between ages 11-15.
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During this time:
 you may grow taller
 grow hair
 start perspiring
 and many other things.
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This all has to deal with your hormones.
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Hormones are chemical substances, produced in glands, which help regulate many body
functions. You do not just grow physically, but mentally/ emotionally and physically as well.
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You will know when you reach adolescence by:
 changing in voice
 a growth spurt
 and physical changes in people.
 Most of the times your hands and feet grow first making some teens awkward or selfconscious.
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Problems get harder the older you get.
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You will start to develop the ability to reason and
think logically.
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You will also be able to think ahead and imagine
possible outcomes of a situation.
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You will be able to understand different points
of view and see many solutions to a problem.
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Tyler wants me to go out with him to check
out a construction site, even though there’s a
“No Trespassing” sign.
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Think of the future and possible
consequences:
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I need to study for a history test tomorrow,
but I have band practice this afternoon and I
have to baby sit my little sister tonight.
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Create possible solutions to the problem
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Mood swings
New feelings toward others
Increased romantic interests
Increased interest in what is important to you
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Read p. 11 as class
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In your group, create a skit that shows
mental/ emotional growth from the slip of
paper given to your group.
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During your teen years, friends will become increasingly important. Your relationship with
family may change, but you may also play a more active role in your community.
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Family-How does the role with your family change? Younger= more dependent on family.
Older= more independent and making decisions for yourself
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Friends-Choose to share your thoughts and feelings with friends instead of family. Your
friends opinions are becoming more important to you. You will also find new friends who
share similar interests with you ( soccer, football, academic team).
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Community- Find ways to contribute to your community, whether it be through school and
picking up litter or helping other students with homework. In your neighborhood you might
donate clothes to the needy or support a local environment group.
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Look at pg. 13. How have friends influenced your behavior and habits in the past year or
two? What does this change indicate about your social growth?
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At each table, create a list, by dividing a piece
of paper into three sections: mental/
emotional health; social health; and physical
health.
List several examples of growth in
adolescence under each heading.
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P. 13
How have friends influenced your behavior
and habits in the past year or two?
What does this change indicate about your
social growth?
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Exit Slip:
 What are three things in your environment can affect your
health?
 Can you control any of them?
 Which has a larger role in influencing your health: heredity
or environment?
 Identify one change during adolescence.
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Homework Bring in a newspaper story or magazine article about a
local accident or crime ( does not have to be recent). We
will discuss them tomorrow in class. We will identify
lifestyle choices that might have led to the incident.
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Bell Ringer:
Quiz Two: Students will have 10 minutes to
complete quiz two.
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Lifestyle
Lifestyle factors
Attitude
Preventative Care
Cumulative risks
Precaution
Abstinence
Self-control
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Choices we make reflect our lifestyles.
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Your lifestyle is a set of behaviors by which
you live your life.
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A healthy lifestyle begins with a good
attitude.
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Lifestyle factors are behaviors that determine
a person’s level of health.
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Attitude is the way you think, act, or feel when making certain
choices.
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A good and positive attitude helps you to make choices that are
good for you and your health.
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Your attitude also includes how you feel about yourself.
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If you like and respect yourself and believe others like and respect
you, you will take care of yourself. YOU control your health.
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If something in your health isn’t good, you have the choice to
make a decision and improve it.
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MAKE SURE never to ignore one part of your health while trying to
improve another, because all parts are equally important.
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Some risks are unavoidable in life.
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A risk crossing the street to get to the bus is unavoidable.
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These risks should not injure you or someone else if performed
with care.
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When you perform an action or behavior that might cause injury or
harm to you or others then it is a risk behavior.
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Some are noticeable
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Some are not noticeable
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Both can have a negative impact on your future health.
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Pull out your homework assignment from
yesterday: a newspaper clipping about a local
accident or crime.
Hand them to me.
I will assign students a number.
Walk around the classroom, looking at the
newspaper clippings, try to decide lifestyle
choices that might have led to the incident.
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Answer the following questions:
 •How can family members make it easier, or
harder, for a teen to choose these lifestyle
practices?
 •At what age should individuals be considered
responsible for choosing these practices for
themselves? Why?
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Think-pair-share unavoidable and avoidable
risks teens face daily
 •A sedentary lifestyle- a life with little physical
activity
 •Tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
 •Sexual activity
 •Riding a bike without a helmet
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All risks have consequences…some are minor
and some are major.
Examples?
 Minor?
 Major?
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“ Three teenagers died, and two more were injured
when a car slammed into a bridge guardrail shortly
after the grab-and-dash theft of a case of beer,” the
police said. “Three of the teens were 17, and two were
16.”
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List the decisions these five teens made and identify
the consequences.
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If you were a friend of theirs who had decided not to
participate in this act, what values did you consider
when you made your decision not to go?
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Risks that increase in effect with each added
risk.
Examples:
 Not wearing a helmet
 Riding a bike on a busy street
 Not looking when crossing a busy street
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Take precautions.
Precautions are planned actions taken before an event to increase
the chances of a safe outcome.
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Or you can be abstinent.
Abstinence is a deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behavior.
Abstinence shows you are responsible and that you respect
yourself and others.
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This helps to protect all three sides of your health triangle.
 Protect emotional/mental by avoiding the stress and worry involved
with taking risks.
 Protect your social health by not disappointing family members and
friends and maintaining their trust.
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There are things that you are responsible for right now:
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doing your homework
cleaning your room
brushing your teeth
The older you get, the more things you will be expected to be responsible for,
both at home and school.
Self-control is important when taking more responsibility for your health.
Self-control is restraint from your own emotions and desires.
Preventative healthcare- is something you should start practicing.
Preventative healthcare is taking steps to prevent illness and accidents before
they happen.
THE CHOICES YOU MAKE TODAY ARE THE START OF NEW HEALTH HABITS.
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In your groups, perform a skit showing an
example of an unhealthy attitude leading to
an unhealthy lifestyle.
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Re-do your skit. Show how the attitude could
change a behavior into a healthy lifestyle.
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Health Education is essential, it helps your
gain the tools you need to maintain and
improve your total health and wellness.
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Exit Slip How have you shown self-control in the past week ( i.e.
not watching your favorite television show so that you had
more time for physical activity).
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Homework-
 Developing a healthy lifestyle takes commitment, but the
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rewards are worth the effort.
Write a short letter identifying one health-enhancing
behavior they will commit to and practice for one month.
Seal them in an envelope.
Bring to class and I will keep them.
In a month, we will open them and see if you were able to
have success.
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Quiz Three: Students will have 10 minutes to
complete the health quiz.
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Turn to p. 20 in the book.
We are going to complete the Model as a
class.
In a small group you will complete the
practice.
Individually, you will complete the
apply/assess box.
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Turn to p. 22 in the book.
We are going to complete the Model as a
class.
In a small group you will complete the
practice.
Individually, you will complete the
apply/assess box.
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Name sources of information about health issues.
What are reliable sources?
 Not all sources of information are equally valid. Printed materials,
check the credentials of the author and anyone the author quotes.
Make sure information is based on a scientific study.
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Sources:
 • Parents/ guardians/ trusted adults- based on personal knowledge
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and experience
• Library resources-encyclopedias and nonfiction books on science,
medicine, nutrition, and fitness.
• Internet- govt. agencies, health care providers, universities, and
scientific publications
• Community resources- local health organizations, hospitals, clinics,
government offices, universities
• Media- newspaper and magazine articles by health professionals
and experts on current health studies.
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