1. Front Load Don’t take notes….just listen!
Influences Objective: Understand how various factors can influence or affect health and wellness
Front Load
Don’t take notes….just listen!

2. Understanding Influences

3. How has genetics influenced your personal health and wellness?
gender
talents
Appearance
intelligence
personality
Disabilities

4. Influences on Personal Health
Environment
- Physical Environment
- Social Environment
- Cultural Environment

5. Media and Technology
Information
Entertainment
Shaping opinions

6. Attitude
Your perspective
Positive / Negative
Behavior
Choices

7. Understanding Your Influences
Use pages 12 – 16 to help deepen your understanding.
Complete the worksheet.

8. Check for Understanding
Heredity Physical Environment Social Environment Cultural Environment Attitude Behavior Media Technology
Directions:
Read the statement – pay attention to the underlined word – decide which category of influence it would fit into.

9. Behavior
Heredity
Physical Env.
Technology
Attitude
Social Env.
Media
Culture
The pacer killed me today, I need to quit smoking.
I love to play any sport, I get my athletic ability from both of my parents.
I have a hard time studying at home because there are 7 of us in a tiny, tiny house.
Sleeping with my smart phone is a bad idea, I end up texting in the middle of the night.
I believe that people shouldn’t smoke marijuana.
Sometimes I drink because everyone else is doing it.
Pictures of women in magazines or in movies, present a very narrow definition of beauty.
Hallucinogens, such as peyote, are used in some American Indian ceremonies.

10. What influences you?
Identify your two primary influences for each area of health:
Physical
Mental/Emotional
Social
Hint: Write two statements that
explain why your physical health
is the way it is. After you have
the statements, identify the
influence. Repeat for each area
of health and wellness.

11. Put it Together
Health and wellness is dynamic and complex changing throughout a lifetime depending on how an individual responds to the numerous influences that impact his or her choices and decisions.
You will now be asked to put it together!