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Health Triangle Teacher Resources
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Seventh graders explore their personal health by completing a worksheet. For this healthy living lesson, 7th graders examine the health triangle and research ways to prevent at risk behavior. Students complete a health survey based on their own habits to assess their health status.
Students examine the risk factors that can interfere with the health triangle of physical, emotional and social health. They role play conflict resolution and healthy choices in the face of negative risk factors.
Seventh graders discuss what are the characteristics of a personal with good health. They read an article about influences on health and discuss and perform a self assessment to gauge their personal health. They then go to the gym and perform and discuss physical activities related to social health, fitness, and stress reduction.
Sixth graders examine the mental, physical, and social dimensions of their health. They discuss and list examples of each component of health on a worksheet, and list ways that they give attention to each aspect of their health on a paper pyramid.
Learners identify the three areas of health physical, social, and mental by placing them in a triangle, and identifying activities that go in each area. They repeat the student's creed and the class moto.
Students investigate the affects of various risk factors and cumulative risk factors vs. a life of wellness in this technology-based lesson for the High School Health class. The lesson requires the use of the Inspiration education software and laptops.