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Seventh Grade Health

Unit One: Health and Wellness Study Guide

1) Wellness and Your Health

a) Physical Health: part of health that describes the condition of the body.

i) Be able to describe ways to improve and maintain the physical part of health

b) Emotional Health: way you recognize and deal with your feelings.

i) Be able to describe ways to improve and maintain the emotional part of health

c) Mental Health: how you deal with life’s demands.

i) Be able to describe ways to improve and maintain mental part of health

d) Social Health: describes the way that you interact with people.

i) Be able to describe ways to improve and maintain the social part of health

e) Wellness is the state of good health achieved by balancing your physical mental, emotional and social health.

i) Be able to draw the “Health Table.”

f) A Health Assessment is a set of questions that allows you to evaluate each of the four parts of your health

2) Influences on Health and Wellness

a) Heredity and Your Health

i) Heredity is the passing down of traits from a parent to a child.

ii) A Trait is a characteristic that a person has.

1) Be able to identify physical and non-physical traits.

2) Understand how heredity can influence health (poor vision, asthma, genetic diseases).

b) Environmental Influences

i) Your Environment is everything around you, including the things you cannot see.

ii) Be able to list examples of things you can do in order to make your environment a healthier place.

c) Relationships

i) Family and friends can influence your health. This influence has the potential to be positive or negative. For instance, the foods your family eats, could be either a positive or negative influence on your nutrition.

ii) Your peers have a significant influence on your health.

1) A Peer is someone who is the same age as you and who has similar interests.

a) Peers have a big impact on your social part of health.

b) Describe both positive and negative situations where peers could influence your health.

d) Media

i) The media is a major source of information about health.

ii) Not all media messages are beneficial.

iii) Health and Fitness products/programs are often marketed by well known celebrities.

1) Be able to provide examples of celebrity endorsement of health/fitness products.

3) Making Choices About Your Health

a) Preventive Healthcare is taking the steps necessary to prevent illness or accidents.

i) Using a seatbelt, wearing a helmet, refusing to smoke.

b) Proactive Healthcare means that you purposefully take actions to improve your personal health before a problem arises.

i) Eating nutritious foods, getting exercise

ii) It is better to be proactive rather than reactive in personal health. For example it is better to maintain the condition of a vehicle rather than to repair after it breaks.

c) Being Responsible about your healthcare means knowing what to do in a medical emergency.

i) In class we filled out the Medical Emergency Response worksheets.

ii) Understand why it’s important to be prepared with an emergency response plan.

4) Using Life Skills to Improve Health

a) Life Skills are skills that help you deal with situations that can affect your health.

i) Assessing Your Health

ii) Making Good Decisions

iii) Being a Wise Consumer

iv) Communicating Effectively

v) Practicing Wellness

vi) Setting Goals

vii) Using Refusal Skills

viii) Coping

ix) Evaluating Media Messages

b) Working together.

i) Sometimes the life skills can work together to improve your health and wellness.

1) Using refusal skills can help you make good decisions.

2) Learning to evaluate media messages and try to comparison shop makes you a wise consumer.

3) Assessing all four parts of your health on a regular basis keeps your level of wellness high.

ii) Think of other ways that the life skills can work together.

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