1. Your Total Health 6 th Grade Health

2. What is Health? The 3 parts of Good Health are:The 3 parts of Good Health are: Combination of:Combination of: PhysicalPhysical –Ex. Involves condition of your body Mental/emotionalMental/emotional –Mental Health Ex. Your ability to solve problems and handle daily events of your life –Emotional Ex. Involves feelings, such as happiness, sadness and anger Social well-beingSocial well-being –Ex. How you relate to people at home, school and everyone else in your world

3. Balance! Mental/ Emotional SocialPhysical YOU! Consider how choices affect balance throughout the year!

4. What is the difference between Health and Wellness? Wellness: a state of well-being or balanced health over a longer period of time.Wellness: a state of well-being or balanced health over a longer period of time.

5. How can you maintain overall Wellness? You can:You can: 1:1: 2:2: 3:3: 4:4: 5:5: Here’s where we develop goals for wellness!

6. Mind-Body Connection What is it?What is it? How your emotions affect your physical and overall health and how your overall health affects your emotionsHow your emotions affect your physical and overall health and how your overall health affects your emotions Sometimes you may be in a situation that requires the professional health services of a counselor or medical providerSometimes you may be in a situation that requires the professional health services of a counselor or medical provider –Ex. Bullying, depression

7. Healthful-To-Do List At your desk answer the following on your own.At your desk answer the following on your own. How are your emotions and your physical overall health interrelated (connected)?How are your emotions and your physical overall health interrelated (connected)? Give 3 examples under Physical Health, Mental/Emotional Health and Social HealthGive 3 examples under Physical Health, Mental/Emotional Health and Social Health

8. Samantha Samantha eats plenty of fruits and vegetables each day. Three days a week, she runs two miles after school. However, some mornings she has a hard time getting up because she stayed up too late the night before. On those days, Samantha argues with her friends. She is also too tired to pay attention in class. Is Samantha as healthy as she could be?

9. Questions A) What parts of Samantha’s health triangle are out of balance? What could she do to balance it out? Goal Setting: B) Write down three strategies that you could take to improve and maintain your personal health. Choose one strategy from each side of the health triangle.

10. Thank you! Questions?