Health and Wellness Skills for a Healthy Life

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Health and WellnessSkills for a Healthy Life

Building Life SkillsChapter 2: Section 1Pages 26-28

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Objectives

State the importance of practicing life skills for lifelong wellness.

List 10 life skill that you need for a healthy life.

Predict how you can use each of the 10 life skills in your daily life.

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Key Terms

Life Skill A tool for building a healthy life

Coping Dealing with problems and troubles in an effective

way Consumer

A person who buys products or services Media

All public forms of communication, such as TV, radio, newspaper, the Internet, and advertisements

Resource Something that you can use to help achieve a goal

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Bell ringer Activity

Make a list of five challenges in your life. Identify what type of life skill you think would most help you face each of the challenges.

Life Skills Bingo

Instructions: Have a student put his or her initials next to a behavior in which he or she practices.

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Ten Life Skills

Assessing Your Health Communicating Effectively Practicing Wellness Coping Being a Wise Consumer Evaluating Media Messages Using Community Resources Making GREAT Decisions Using Refusal Skills Setting Goals

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Assessing Your Health

Evaluating how your actions and behaviors affect your health. What do I need to improve my health?Is smoking good for my lungs?

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Communicating Effectively

Good communication skills—include knowing how to listen and speak effectively. These skills help improve your

relationship with family, friends, classmates, teachers, and other adults.

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Practicing Wellness

Practicing healthy behaviors daily so that you can have good lifelong health.

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Coping Dealing with troubles or problems

in an effective way. This life skill help you deal with difficult times and situations and emotions, such as anger, depression, and loss of a loved one

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Being a Wise Consumer

A consumer is a person who buys products or services.

Making good decisions when buying health products and services.

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Evaluating and Analyzing Media Messages

Media: public forms of communication, such as TV, radio, movies, newspaper, the internet, and advertisements. The media have a significant influence on what you learn about the world.

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Using Community Resources

A resource is something that you can use to help achieve a goal (i.e. health clinics, libraries, etc.).

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Making GREAT Decisions

Steps to help you make the right decision for yourself.

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Using Refusal Skills

Different ways to say “no” to something you do not want to do.For example, blame someone else, give a

reason, keep saying no, etc.

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Setting Goals

Tips/suggestions to help you set goals.Your goals should be safe, satisfying,

sensible, similar, specific, and supported.

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Closure

Thumbs up (True) or Thumbs down (False)

State whether each of the statements below is true or false. Correct false statements. Knowing how to analyze media messages

will help you make better decisions about your health.

The most important reason for learning how to be a wise consumer is to save money on goods and services.

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Works Cited

Friedman, D. P., Stine, C.C., and Whalen, S. (2004). Lifetime Health. Austin, Texas: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

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