Health and Wellness Skills for a Healthy Life

1. Health and WellnessSkills for a Healthy Life Building Life Skills Chapter 2: Section 1 Pages 26-28 Adapted from Lifetime Health

2. 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. Adapted from Lifetime Health

3. 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 Adapted from Lifetime Health

4. 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. Adapted from Lifetime Health

5. Life Skills Bingo • Instructions: Have a student put his or her initials next to a behavior in which he or she practices. Adapted from Lifetime Health

6. 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 Adapted from Lifetime Health

7. 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? Adapted from Lifetime Health

8. 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. Adapted from Lifetime Health

9. Practicing Wellness • Practicing healthy behaviors daily so that you can have good lifelong health. Adapted from Lifetime Health

10. 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 Adapted from Lifetime Health

11. Being a Wise Consumer • A consumer is a person who buys products or services. • Making good decisions when buying health products and services. Adapted from Lifetime Health

12. 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. Adapted from Lifetime Health

13. Using Community Resources • A resource is something that you can use to help achieve a goal (i.e. health clinics, libraries, etc.). Adapted from Lifetime Health

14. Making GREAT Decisions • Steps to help you make the right decision for yourself. Adapted from Lifetime Health

15. 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. Adapted from Lifetime Health

16. Setting Goals • Tips/suggestions to help you set goals. • Your goals should be safe, satisfying, sensible, similar, specific, and supported. Adapted from Lifetime Health

17. 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. Adapted from Lifetime Health

18. Works Cited • Friedman, D. P., Stine, C.C., and Whalen, S. (2004). Lifetime Health. Austin, Texas: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. • Images. Retrieved on March 10, 2006 from http://www.images.google.com Adapted from Lifetime Health