Teach students about the dimensions of wellness, fundamental health principles, the Wellness Wheel, and healthy habits with this free lesson Intro to Health Bundle. This bundle is also a preview of our comprehensive, skills-based health education curriculum.
Students will understand the definition of health, how health connects to their life, and learn about the Wellness Wheel.
Students will learn about the dimensions of wellness and build a general understanding of each dimension of health.
Students will learn about the interconnected nature of health and identify how the status of one dimension of health affects another dimension.
Students will identify what characteristics would
cause them to thrive and explore the difference between thriving and surviving.
Students will understand what a healthy habit is and be able to identify healthy habits in their life.
As a more traditional assessment, give
students a short-answer test. The questions will help determine if your students
understood the functional knowledge and have adequately developed health
skills. When students are complete, use the teaching guide and rubric to assess
Discover What Makes Our Lessons Different...
A Detailed Teaching Guide
Each lesson comes with easy-to-follow written instruction. The teaching guide outlines the main learning objectives, a list of the National Health Education Standards met, links to the necessary teaching materials, and how to teach the lesson.
An Instructional Video
This voice-over video is a step-by-step walkthrough of the lesson, outlining exactly how you can teach the lesson.
A Teaching PowerPoint
Each lesson comes with a teaching PowerPoint to share with students. PowerPoints can be opened in Google Slides or downloaded.
PDF & Google Slides Student Worksheets
Student worksheets come as PDFs and Google Slides. This makes it easy for students to complete and turn-in work on Google Classroom or another eLearning platform.
Assessment Rubric & Answer Key
Student activities come with assessment rubrics, answer keys, and student examples (when applicable).
Free Intro to Health Unit Plans
We've got you covered! Download FREE Intro to Health unit plans.
A middle school health teacher turned curriculum developer (and #WAHM). I'm on a mission to share the easiest-to-teach, most impactful health lesson plans on the Internet. Because your time and energy is better spent on teaching and connecting, not on planning and prep.