As you come into class…
On the backside of the cover of your packet, answer these
questions:
Answer these questions (you do not have to share!):
1.  Do you consider yourself healthy? Why/why not?
2.  What health-related behaviors do you want to change?
WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO TODAY...
1. Identify the three sides of the health triangle
2. Understand how health is affected by heredity,
environment, and available health care.
3. Distinguish between reasonable and unreasonable risks.
Health & Wellness
7th Grade Health - PFMS
WHAT IS HEALTH??
WHAT IS HEALTH?
Health – a combination of physical,
mental/emotional, and social wellbeing (3 components)
These 3 areas work together to build
overall good health.
Health Triangle Activity
You will need:
1)  A textbook
2)  A partner
3) Your packet/worksheet
Turn to page 5. Read “The Health
Triangle” section.
On your worksheet, define each side of
the triangle. You have 5 minutes.
THE HEALTH TRIANGLE
The health triangle
represents physical,
social and mental
health, which needs to
be balanced to achieve
total health. The three
equal sides of the
triangle symbolize that
all three factors must
be equal.
PHYSICAL HEALTH
Everything about the body
1.  Measured by what you do and what
you don’t do
2.  Things you do and don’t do that keep
your body healthy or not.
3.  Health choices = avoiding ATOD,
balancing the time you watch TV/play
on computer/cell phone, physical
activity
4.  Being physically active means taking
care of your body
5.  This also includes nutrition, sleep, and
hygiene.
SOCIAL HEALTH
How you interact with others
1.  Measured by how you interact and
communicate with others
2.  Good social health = communicating
well with others, having respect for
family, friends, peers, teachers, etc.
3.  Building relationships with people you
can trust and who can trust you
4.  Having someone you can talk to about
anything
5.  Treating your friends well, disagreeing
without fighting
6.  Making and keeping friends
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH
The mind and emotions
1.  Measured by the way you think and
express your feelings
2.  You can develop good M/E health by
learning to think positively and to
express your feelings in healthy ways
3.  Healthy ways to increase M/E Health
= positive thinking when feeling sad,
focusing on the good things in your
life, focusing on things you enjoy,
recognizing and building your
strengths
4.  Reading and learning!
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH
If a problem feels
overwhelming, don’t be
afraid to talk to someone
you trust (friend, adult,
coach, teacher)
Knowing when you to ask
for help is a sign of good
M/E health.
HEALTH TRIANGLE
Three sides of your health are connected and each side
affects the other two sides.
-- Being depressed for a while can make you feel physically
weak
-- Being tired or hungry can make you grouchy -- Being healthy means to have a balanced triangle
WAKE UP!
FITNESS BREAK!
Health Triangle Activity 2
Go to page 6 of your textbook.
Read page 6.
Then do the activity in figure 1.2 on page 7.
HEALTH TRIANGLE SURVEY
Please take the health triangle survey in your
packet.
Read the statements and circle either YES or
NO.
Then, score it according to the guidelines
listed at the end of the survey.
MOVING ON...
Have you ever thought about…
1. What you like to eat?
2. Where you live?
3. What your hobbies are?
… and how these things affect your life?
FACTORS THAT AFFECT YOUR HEALTH...
Choices affect your health, but there are things that affect
your health that you have no control over.
HEREDITY
  The biological traits your parents give to you
  eye, skin, hair color, body build, growth patterns
  Can inherit athletic ability or musical talent
  Developing diseases/allergies is genetic
ENVIRONMENT
  sum total of your surroundings
  Place you live, school, people you see often
  Air you breathe, water you drink
  Can be positive or negative (natural disasters, healthcare)
FACTORS THAT AFFECT YOUR HEALTH...
PEERS
1.  Friends and other people in your age group influence
your actions and behaviors
2.  Peer pressure can influence healthy choices
3.  Can be positive  a friend influences you to volunteer
at an animal shelter, to join a sports team, etc
4.  Can be negative…
TECHNOLOGY
1.  Access to health info, education about diseases
2.  Technology to detect disease, treat disease, etc
3.  Access to info that can be bad influence (drugs, alcohol)
YOUR HEALTH, YOUR CHOICE
Obviously, some of these factors are out of your
control, while some are not.
You have control over your behavior and the
choices you make.
Many of the choices you make affect your
health.
TAKING RISKS
Some risks are reasonable; Others are not.
It is good to take risks!
If you never take a risk, you never know what
you can achieve.
Volunteers to the board to write down
something they thing is a risk.
UNREASONABLE vs. REASONABLE RISK
Risk = possibility that an action may cause
harm, injury, or disappointment to you (not
always a bad thing!)
Reasonable = talking to someone you never
met
Unreasonable = skateboarding on the street
without a helmet
What will we do in health class?
1. Build your health skills!
2. Health skills = skills that help you become
and stay healthy
3. In health, you will learn about your body and
learn ways to take care of yourself physically,
socially, and mentally
4. Just like math and reading, health is a skill
that you will use the rest of your life
(practicing healthy habits).
5. Last part of packet – Write down 1 thing you
want to learn in health this year.
IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH EDUCATION