1. Health and Wellness Skills for a Healthy Life
Building Life Skills
Chapter 2: Section 1
Pages 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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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13. 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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14. 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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