1. Big Idea
Understanding how heredity, environment, and other factors affect your health can help you make healthy decisions.

2. Bell Ringer
Your health is affected by many factors, some are controllable and some are not.
Write about 2 controlable factors that contribute to your health as well as 2 factors that you can’t control.

3. Pair and share
Class share

4. New Vocabulary Heredity Environment Media Technology Peers Attitude
Behavior
Understanding how and what influences your health can help you make healthy decisions

5. Factor # 1: HEREDITY
The traits passed on to you from your biological parents.
What traits and/or disorders might someone inherit from their parents?
Knowing what you may be at risk for can help you make decisions or take actions to stay well and healthy.

6. Think/Write/Pair/Share

7. Think/Write/

8. Pair/Share

9. Examples:
Skin color
Eye color
Hair color
Height
Right/left handed
Facial Features
Allergies/Health

10. Factor # 2 Environment: Everything that makes up your surroundings.
Physical
Social
Culture

11. Think
Environment

12. Pair/Share

13. Environmental influences
Physical environment
Neighborhood and school safety
Air and water quality
Availability of parks, recreational facilities and libraries.
Access to medical care.

14. Environmental influences
Social environment:
Made up of all the people around you, including your family and your peers.

15. Environmental influences
Culture
The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
This group may be an ethnic group, a community, a nation or a specific part of the world.
May include the language you speak, the foods you eat, and the traditions you practice.

16. Complete the TICKET IN THE DOOR SLIP.
Bell Ringer:
Complete the TICKET IN THE DOOR SLIP.

17. Factor # 3 : MEDIA
The main means of mass communication (especially television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet) regarded collectively.

18. Think/Pair/Share/Write
Media

19. More examples:
Newspapers, magazines, books
News station
Weather station
Advertisements
Radio stations

20. Factor # 4 Technology
Involves scientific ideas that affect your life. (Radio, television, and the Internet)
How can technology be a negative influence on our health
How can technology be a positive influence on our health

21. Think/Write/
Technology

22. Pair/Share

23. Examples:
Cell phones
Computers
Treadmills
Ipads
Radios
Tv’s

24. Factor # 5 peers. People your age
How can your peers be a positive influence on your health?
What is the difference between a friend and a peer? Is there one?
Friends can be any age, peers are people your age.

25. Friends can be any age, peers are people your age.
Think/Pair/Share/Write/
Friends can be any age, peers are people your age.
Peers

26. Factor # 6: Attitude
Your attitude or the way you view situations can have a big effect on your health.
If you feel strongly that healthy habits will benefit your health then you are more like to practice those healthy habits.
Optimists are usually in better health than pessimists.

27. Think/Pair/Share/Write/
Attitude

28. Factor # 7: Behavior
Some factors you don’t have much control over like heredity and some of your environment. However, you can choose to avoid high-risk behaviors in favor of healthful behaviors, like:

29. Think/Pair/Share/Write/
Behavior
Choosing healthy foods
Participating in daily physical activity