7th Grade - Health and Wellness

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“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson




Health and Wellness

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Health and Wellness

Lessons

• Lesson 1 Being Healthy and Well

• Lesson 2 Influences on Your Health

• Lesson 3 Making Good Health Choices

• Lesson 4 Nine Life Skills for Better Health

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Lesson 1 Being Healthy and Well

Bellringer

In your own words and without looking at yourtextbook, define the term health.

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Objectives

• Identify the four parts of health.

• Explain the difference between health and wellness.

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Start Off Write

Write down three things that you can do daily to improve your physical health.

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Physical Health

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• What Is Physical Health? The part of health that deals with the body is physical health.




Physical Health continued

• Good Habits Practice the following habits to maintain your physical health:1. Eat a balanced diet.2. Get plenty of exercise.3. Get 8 hours of sleep every night.4. Avoid drugs, alcohol and tobacco.5. Practice safety.6. Practice good hygiene.7. Visit your doctor and dentist regularly.

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Emotional Health

• What Is Emotional Health? Emotional health is the way you recognize and deal with your feelings.

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Emotional Health

• Healthy Emotions People with emotional health are able to:1. Express emotions in calm and healthy ways2. Deal with sadness and get help for depression3. Accept his or her strengths and weaknesses

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Mental Health

• What Is Mental Health? Mental health is the way you cope with the demands of daily life.

• Good Mental Health Having good mental health means that you can:1. Solve problems with little trouble2. Deal with stress effectively3. Accept new ideas

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Social Health

• What Is Social Health? The way you interact with other people describes your social health.

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Social Health

• Social Skills You build social skills by:1. Being considerate of other people2. Showing respect for other people3. Sharing your true feelings with your friends4. Being dependable5. Volunteering to do things for your community6. Being supportive of your friends when

they make the right choices

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Lesson 1 Being Healthy and WellChapter 1

Try this Life Skills Activity to assess your social health.




Wellness

• Maintaining Balance Wellness is having all four parts of health in good shape and equally balanced. The next slide shows the four parts of health.

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Lesson 2 Influences on Your Health

Bellringer

Describe some characteristics that you and yourparents have in common. Then, describe some of your characteristics that are different from your parents.

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Objectives

• Explain how heredity affects your health.

• Explain how the environment influences your health.

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Start Off Write

How can your environment have a negative effect on your health?

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Heredity and Traits

• What Is Heredity? Heredity is the passing down of traits from parents to their biological child.

• Inherited Traits Physical traits that can be inherited, or passed down, include height and hair, eye, and skin color. Certain diseases can also be passed down from parent to child.

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Your Environment

• Your environment includes all of the living and nonliving things around you.

• The environment can affect all parts of your health.

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Years ago, asbestos was used as fireproof insulation in buildings. Today, we know that asbestos is an environmental hazard because it damages your lungs. What other pollutants do you know of that can damage your lungs?



Lesson 3 Making Good Health Choices

Bellringer

Describe the characteristics of a person who you think has a good attitude.

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Objectives

• Describe the relationship between your lifestyle and your health.

• Identify four things that you can do to have a healthy lifestyle.

• Explain how your attitude affects your health.

• Explain what you can do to take responsibility for your healthcare.

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Start Off Write

Describe ways that you can have a healthier lifestyle.

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Living Healthily

• Having a Healthy Lifestyle Every day, you make choices that influence your health. Your choices make up your lifestyle, or set of behaviors that you live by.

• Having a Good Attitude Your attitude is a way of acting, thinking, or feeling that causes you to make one choice over another. A good attitude will allow you to listen to advice about healthy living.

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Taking Control of Your Health

• Make Healthy Decisions To take control of your health you must first decide to improve your lifestyle. Next, you should decide which part of health you want to improve.

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Healthcare and Personal Responsibility

• Make Healthy Decisions You are responsible for caring for your own health. Your responsibilities include:1. Brushing and flossing your teeth2. Eating healthy foods and exercising3. Getting enough sleep4. Wearing safety equipment when playing sports5. Using your seat belt6. Avoiding dangerous behavior

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Lesson 3 Making Good Health ChoicesChapter 1

Having a dental exam every year is a good way to find and fill cavities before they get very large. Do the Life Skills Activity to think of other forms of preventative healthcare.



Bellringer

Write a definition for the term refusal skills.

Chapter 1 Lesson 4 Nine Life Skills for Better Health



Objectives• Identify the nine life skills that can improve your life

and health.

• Describe how practicing the life skills can help you master them.

• Explain how you can assess your progress in learning the life skills.

• Describe why the life skills should be a part of your daily life.

Chapter 1 Lesson 4 Nine Life Skills for Better Health



Lesson 4 Nine Life Skills for Better Health

Start Off Write

What are life skills?

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The Nine Life Skills

• Necessary Skills The table on the next slide lists the life skills that can help you maintain a healthy life. Which of these life skills do you already practice well? Which do you need to improve?

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You may find that using certain life skills is difficult or awkward at first. Remember that the best way to master any skill is to practice it. For example, try this Life Skills Activity to practice wellness.

Practice Makes Perfect





Assessing Your Progress

• How Much Is Your Health Improving? To assess your progress in using life skills, ask yourself questions such as:1. Which skills do I use most often?2. Which skills should I use more often?3. Are there skills I don’t feel comfortable using?4. Am I having problems with a specific skill?5. How can I improve my use of life skills?

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Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

• Keep Making Good Choices Life skills will help you make good choices both now and in the future. Remember that you want to maintain the four parts of your health to achieve wellness.

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“If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.”

—Chinese Proverb




“One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.”

—African Proverb




“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

—Mark Twain




“Our reverence is good for nothing if it does not begin with self-respect.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes




“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”

—Japanese Proverb




“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”





“A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.”

—Lord Jeffrey




“To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.”

—Aristotle




“He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.”

—Japanese Proverb




“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”

—Henry David Thoreau




“A man’s character is his fate.”

—Heraclitus




“Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.”

—Aristotle




“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”





“Abstinence is the surety of temperance.”

—Plato




“This above all, to thine own self be true/And it must follow, as the night the day/ Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

—William Shakespeare




“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character .”





“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”

—Aristotle




“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

—Socrates




“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”





“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”

—Sophocles




“Character is higher than intellect.”





“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

—Confucius




“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”





“That soul that can be honest is the only perfect man.”

—John Fletcher




“One does evil enough when one does nothing good.”

—German Proverb




“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”

—French Proverb




“Don't forget to love yourself.”

—Soren Kierkegaard




“Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”

—Orison Swett Marden




“What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.”

—John Ruskin




“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.”

—Horace Greeley




“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

—James D. Miles




“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

—William Penn




“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”

—George Eliot




“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”

—Elbert Hubbard




“A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.”

—Karl G. Maeser




“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

—Thomas Paine




“Character is power.”

—Booker T. Washington




“An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.”

—Robert Baden-Powell




“Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.”

—Woodrow T. Wilson



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