Choosing A Healthy Life
HEALTH EDUCATION - Extra
Substance Abuse & Disease Prevention (5)
HPE Lesson Plans - Health - KHE, 1HE, 2HE, 3HE, 4HE, 5HE
Mental, Social & Emotional Health | Substance Use & Abuse | Disease Prevention | Nutrition & Fitness | Human Growth & Development | Safety | Health Helpers | A Healthful Place to Live | Safety | Mental, Social & Emotional Health | Substance Abuse & Disease Prevention | Growing Up Healthy
L1: How Medicines Help the Body| L2: Medicine Use, Misuse & Abuse | L3: Tobacco Affects Body Systems | L4: Alcohol Affects Body Systems | L5: Refusing Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs | L6: The Causes of Disease| L7: Pathogens & Infectious Diseases | L8: Disease and the Immune System | L9: When Someone Gets Ill | L10: Noninfectious Disease | EXTRA: Choosing a Healthy Life
Substance Abuse & Disease Prevention
Choosing a Healthy Life
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Standard(s), Essential Question(s), Big Idea(s)
LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA
I will know and be able to discuss the roles of diet, exercise, and managing stress in determining a person's overall health.
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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY
Vocabulary
healthful - beneficial to health of body or mind (synonym: healthy)
healthy - beneficial to one's physical, mental, or emotional state: conducive to or associated with good health or reduced risk of disease (synonym: healthful)
lifestyle - the typical way of life of an individual, group, or culture
OPENING (Engage)
Main Idea
Healthful lifestyle choices can lower your chances of getting both infectious and noninfectious diseases.
Why Learn This?
You can use what you learn to make more healthful lifestyle choices.
WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)
READ: Choosing a Healthy Life
Choosing a Healthy Life
You may not have much, if any, control over your heredity or over the things in your environment that can make you ill. But you can control your own lifestyle. Three of the most important lifestyle choices you can make for good health are eating right, exercising regularly, and abstaining from, or not using, tobacco.
How are diet and exercise important to health?
People who eat diets high in fat are more likely to develop atherosclerosis and other kinds of heart disease than people with low-fat diets.
You don't have to cut fats completely out of your diet, but you should eat them only in small amounts. High-fat foods include ice cream, doughnuts, potato chips, and french fries. These and other high-fat foods are high in fat.
Regular aerobic exercise can also help reduce your risk of heart disease. Aerobic exercise is any activity that gets your heart pumping fast and makes you breathe hard. Aerobic exercise gives your heart muscle a workout and makes it stronger. Aerobic exercise can also lower high blood pressure. In addition, it can change the type of fat in your blood andÂ
are call diso lower high blood pressure. In addition, it can change the type of fat in your blood and help prevent atherosclerosis. Regular aerobic exercise may even lower your chances of developing one type of diabetes.
Aerobic exercise is also a good way to manage stress. Stress has been known to cause ulcers and heart attacks. Stress decreases the body's natural resistance, increasing a person's chances of getting colds and flu. Managing stress lowers your blood pressure and decreases your chances of getting heart disease. It also improves your natural resistance to infectious disease.
To include regular aerobic exercise in your life, try to find an aerobic activity that you enjoy. Then do the activity at least three or more days a week for a total of twenty to thirty minutes a day. Swimming, biking, and fast walking are good aerobic exercises that can both increase your natural resistance to infectious disease and help prevent heart disease.
How does tobacco use affect health?
Diseases that result from tobacco use are among the leading causes of death in the United States. People who smoke a pack or more of cigarettes each day are twice as likely to die before the age of sixty-five as people who don't smoke. People who use smokeless tobacco are also likely to die younger than people who don't use tobacco. Why do so many people who use tobacco die early? Cancer is one of the main reasons. Someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day is 14 times more likely to die from lung, throat, or mouth cancer than a nonsmoker. People who use smokeless tobacco are also more likely to die from cancer, especially cancer of the mouth, tongue, or lip.
Heart disease is another reason tobacco users, especially smokers, die younger than people who don't use tobacco. Smoking cigarettes greatly increases a person's chances of developing heart disease. Someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day is twice as likely to die from a heart attack as a nonsmoker.
Using tobacco has other drawbacks as well. Smoking can lead to lung infections and emphysema, a chronic respiratory disease. Using tobacco causes the skin to become tough and wrinkled. It also causes bad breath and stains the teeth. Even people who don't smoke can develop health problems from breathing tobacco smoke in the air around them.
Despite all the dangers and drawbacks of tobacco use, thousands of young people start using tobacco each year. Why do they start? Some start in order to look more mature. Others do it just because their friends do, and they want to fit in. Most young people who start using tobacco continue to use it as adults.
But there is good news. According to a July 5, 2017 article by Helen Browning in CaliforniaHealthline.
"When researchers first started consistently tracking teen cigarette use in 1999, 29 percent of high schoolers reported smoking a cigarette in the past 30 days. That’s compared with 8 percent in 2016, according to data released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
"Reported use of e-cigarettes, known as vaping, also fell for the first time since e-cigarette tracking began in 2011, dropping from 16 percent in 2015 to about 11 percent in 2016."
Fortunately, using tobacco is one cause of death that can be prevented. The best way to avoid all the health problems that tobacco causes is to stay away from tobacco and tobacco smoke. Avoid places such as smoking sections of restaurants where tobacco smoke is in the air. Most important, don't start using tobacco yourself. This can be hard to do because tobacco advertising is all around.
REMEMBER...Healthful lifestyle choices can lower your chances of getting both infectious and noninfectious diseases. You can use what you learn to make more healthful lifestyle choices.
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Standard(s)
HE5.1a - recognize the relationship between healthy behaviors and disease prevention
HE5.1b - describe and apply the basic personal health concepts of healthy eating and physical activity
HE5.1c - describe and apply the basic health concept of mental and emotional well-being
HE5.1d - describe and apply the basic health concept of personal hygiene and safety
HE5.1e - distinguish the short and long-term physical effects of use and/or misuse of substances
HE5.1f - identify trusted adults and when it might be important to seek health care or emergency help for themselves or others
HE5.1g - identify the changes that occur during puberty
HE5.1h - distinguish between tattling, reporting aggression, bullying, cyberbullying, and violence (physical and/or sexual) and how to report these instances
HE5.1i - identify strategies to avoid physical fighting and violence
HE5.2a - evaluate the influence of family and peers on personal health behaviors and decisions
HE5.2b - describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors
HE5.2c - explain how media/technology influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors
HE5.3a - identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services
HE5.3b - access resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information
HE5.3c - assess the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services
HE5.4a - apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health
HE5.4b - model effective nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflicts
HE5.4c - demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health and the health of others
HE5.5a - identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision
HE5.5b - list healthy options and possible consequences to a health-related issue or problem
HE5.5c - predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision
HE5.5d - analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision
HE5.5e - choose a healthy option when making a decision
HE5.5f - describe the outcomes of a health-related decision
HE5.6a - set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement
HE5.6b - identify and utilize resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal
HE5.7a - practice responsible personal health choices
HE5.7b - demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to preserve or enhance personal health
HE5.7c - model a variety of behaviors that prevent or decrease health risks to self and/or others
HE5.8a - review accurate information and develop an opinion about a health issue
HE5.8b - advocate for positive health choices
Essential Question(s)
How are diet and exercise important to health?
How does tobacco use affect health?
Big Idea(s)
People who eat diets low in fat are less likely to develop atherosclerosis and other kinds of heart disease than people with high fat diets. You should not cut fats completely our of your diet, but you should eat them only in small amounts. Regular aerobic exercise can also help reduce your risk of heart disease. Aerobic exercise is any activity that gets your heart pumping fast and makes you breathe hard.
Diseases that result from tobacco use are among the leading causes of death in the United States. People who smoke a pack or more of cigarettes each day are twicee as likely to die before the age of sixty-five as people who don't smoke. People who use smokeless tobacco are also likely to die younger than people who don't use tobacco.
RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
see below
DCSD Board-Approved Instruction Materials
Your Health: Teacher's Edition - Grade 5. Harcourt Brace & Company. 1999.
Technology
Chromebook
large video screens for whole-class viewing
sound system for sharing of audio