1. Warm-up / Journal
What are some aspects of your life that are impacted by your overall health?
(i.e. – ability to do well in school, to join in activities with friends, etc.)

2. Chapter 1 Lesson 2 What Affects Your Health
Objective: Lists five factor that influence health.
Main Idea: Understanding how heredity, environment, and others factors affect your health can help you make healthy decisions.

3. Influences on Your Health
There are 7 concepts that create your health.
1. Heredity
2. Environment
3. Attitude
4. Behavior
5. Media and Technology

4. Heredity
All the traits passed
on to you from your
Parents.

5. Heredity
Do you have family members that suffer from diseases like cancer or heart disease?
Do you have family members who are naturally slender instead of bulky?
Ask your family about their health issues because they are most likely going to enter your life….

6. Heredity Discussion: How many students have specific inherited traits?
Eye color (brown, blue, green, hazel)
Attached ear lobes
Roll your tongue
Hitch hiker thumb
Fair skin = increased risk skin cancer
Race
Gender
Male = increased risk cardiovascular disease
Female = increased risk of breast cancer

7. Environment the sum of your surroundings. Physical Culture Social
Places around you
Social
People around you
Culture
Beliefs, customs, & values
the sum of your surroundings.
What environmental
factors influence
your health?

8. people of the same age who share similar interests.
Peers:
people of the same age who share similar interests.
Peers can have a positive or negative influence on you.

9. Social Environment
CULTURE – the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
language
food
spiritual beliefs
traditions

10. Handshakes have been a cultural form of greeting for centuries
Handshakes have been a cultural form of greeting for centuries. With a partner, create a handshake. Each handshake must have at least FOUR different parts and ONE body movement. Answer the following:
Why is it important to understand the culture or cultures of your own family?
Why is it important to understand the cultures of other families in your community?
How does an understanding of your own, and other cultures help you stay health?

11. Media: - the various methods of communicating information.
TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, computers, phones, people, posters, signs… How does the media significantly influence your decisions and health?

12. Your Attitude Influences Your Health
- Is the way you view a situation.
Optimists (people with a positive attitude) are usually in better health then pessimist (people with negative attitudes).
YOU have complete control over your own BEHAVIORS!!!!!

13. Behavior You have TOTAL control over your own behavior.!!!
List 2 of each……(Pretending its Friday night)
High – Risk Behaviors :
Low – Risk Behaviors:

14. Technology:
the specific form of media including radio, television, and the internet.
Not all information from a technology source is a reliable and valid
How do you know if a website has valid health information?
Look for .gov or .edu

15. In Class Activity
Create a Facebook Page/MySpace (ON PAPER) that describes an imaginary person who has healthy habits in all 5 areas. Must include imaginary picture, message wall, status and/or mood.
USE NOTES FOR HELP…
Include:
1. Heredity
2. Environment – (Physical, Social, Culture)
3. Attitude
4. Behavior
5. Media and Technology