Lesson 1: 6 Components of Health/Goal Setting Teacher Notes Slide 1: What is Health? Have a discussion with the students on what they think health means. Slide 2: What is Health? Explain that in the past you were considered healthy if you were free of disease or illness. Today health means being healthy within in all 6 components of health. Slide 3: 6 Components of Health. Ask students if they know or have heard of the 6 Components of Health. Explain that everything in our life that relates to health can be placed in one of these 6 categories. Slide 4: What is Wellness? Have a discussion with the students on what they think wellness means. Slide 5: What is wellness? Wellness is the quality or state of being healthy in body and mind, especially as the result of deliberate effort. Slide 6: The 6 components of Health and Wellness go hand in hand. Explain that being the best in each of the components of health makes up our well being, also known as wellness. Slide 7: This picture describes each component. The pictures show how each component influences the other components. One is not more important than another. (For the worksheet, have the students write the component on the outside of the pie and the descriptions inside the pie pieces.) Slide 8 & 9: Physical Health – Discuss how physical health relates to our body’s functions and the choices we make that affect our body. Does physical health mean playing a sport, being an athlete, or being skinny and/or muscular? Slide 10: What effect does physical activity have on our health now… and in the future? There is no magic pill that makes us healthy. We must make a decision to be healthy. Emphasize the importance of being physically active for a lifetime and how imperative it is to living a long, healthy, disease‐free life. Slide 11‐13: Emotional Health ‐ Discuss the fact that being emotionally healthy means being able to express emotions in a positive, nondestructive manner and being able to cope with unpleasant emotions without becoming overwhelmed. What does emotional health look like? © Austin Independent School District 2014‐2015 Slide 14 & 15: Social Health ‐ Discuss some of the qualities associated with being socially healthy: quality of relationships with others, respecting others, avoiding those who mistreat us. Why would you want to be friends with people who don’t respect you? How do you show respect to your friends? Slide 16: Why do you think we tear people down to build ourselves up? Discuss with students how often we as a society judge others around us. (video clip on picture) Video moves pretty fast, may want to watch it twice. Slide 17‐19: Mental Health ‐ Discuss how having a high self‐esteem and being able to cope with demands of daily life are signs of being mentally healthy. Slide 20‐22: Spiritual Health‐ Discuss how spiritual health can mean different things for different people. It could mean maintaining a harmonious relationship with others, having a purpose/goal in life, living according to our values. For some it could mean religion. Ask students who they think controls their destiny. Slide 23‐25: Environmental Health – Discuss how the environment is your surroundings, the area where you live, and all the things you have contact with (air, water, land). The effects of the environment on your health include pollutants, safety regulations and availability of medical care. Environmental Health includes keeping your air clean, water clean, food safe and land enjoyable and safe. It also includes recycling programs and reducing fossil fuel emissions. Slide 26: Environmental Health Issues Discuss the issues of asthma, birth defects, carbon monoxide poisonings, lead poisoning, heart attacks, reproductive and birth outcomes, and developmental disabilities. Slide 27: Overpopulation and Health 1 billion people are added every 12 years to the earth, 220,000 every day. What types of problems are brought about because of overpopulation? (Possible answers include shortage of resources, war and social conflict, limited personal freedom and overcrowding.) Slide 28 & 29: Environmental Protection/Health Programs EPA, The Nature Conservancy, GreenPeace, The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Center for Disease Control Lesson 1: 6 Components of Health/Goal Setting Teacher Notes Slide 30: What impact do you think these agencies have on our world? Discuss Slide 31: How much do our actions affect our surroundings, our environment? How does the environment affect out health? (Video on picture) Slide 32: WHEEL activity – activity is in packet. Have students rate themselves on each area of their health; is it a well‐rounded wheel? If not, what can be done to make it round? Slide 33: How does each component of our health affect each other? Emphasize the importance of having balance in each area and how the components are reliant upon each other. Slide 34: Goal Setting: What are goals and why are they important? : (Video on picture) Slide 35: Goal: Define goals. Talk about how they can be seen as “Directions” for our life. They help us stay focused on what we want to achieve. Slide 36: Short‐Term Goals: Define and discuss the word, “quickly”. What are some examples of short‐term goals? (ex. working out 3x a week, going to tutorials twice a week, doing my chores to earn allowance, not texting and driving.) Slide 37: Long‐Term Goals: “What are some examples of long‐term goals? (ex. a career, grad school, buying a car, owning a house, having a family.) Slide 38: Mid‐range Goals: Discuss that depending on what your long‐term goals are, sometimes mid‐range goals are needed as “checkpoints” to keep us on track. What are some examples of mid‐range goals? (ex. going to college, obtaining a driver’s license, graduating high school, making a 4.0., budgeting your finances.) Slide 39: SMART goal setting: Discuss the steps that can help when setting goals to make sure they can be reached. Slide 40: Oprah: Dream big! Set your goals high! Good intro to My Visions and Goals activity – inspiring. (Video on picture) Slide 41: Going on a Mission: Discuss quote. Just because you set a goal, doesn’t mean it will just happen. © Austin Independent School District 2014‐2015 You must WORK and be disciplined to follow your plan, if it is something you truly want to achieve. What does discipline mean? Video on picture. After watching the video, discuss how there may be obstacles in your life, but you can overcome them – whether it be a disability, a life‐changing event, etc. The video on the picture is about a young man that sees without eyes. He uses clicks from his mouth to hear the sounds bounce off of objects so he knows where they are. This video is connected to goal setting in that his mom had a goal when his eyes had to be removed he did not want him to feel different or be different than anyone else. The video talks about things she did to make this goal happen. (Video on picture)