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Wellness Dimensions: Home

Research one of the 7 Wellness Dimension and present what you learn to your classmates in a creative way.

What are the Wellness Dimensions?

  Social Wellness
The ability to relate to and connect with other people in our world.

Emotional Wellness
The ability to understand ourselves and cope with the challenges life can bring.

Spiritual Wellness
The ability to establish peace and harmony in our lives.

Environmental Wellness
The ability to recognize our own responsibility for the quality of the air, the water and the land that surrounds us.

Career Wellness
The ability to get personal fulfillment from our jobs or our chosen career fields while still maintaining balance in our lives.

Intellectual Wellness
The ability to open our minds to new ideas and experiences that can be applied to personal decisions, group interaction and community betterment.

Physical Wellness
The ability to maintain a healthy quality of life that allows us to get through our daily activities without undue fatigue or physical stress.

Unit Overview

Iowa Core, Health Literacy Standards

  • Demonstrate functional health literacy skills to obtain, interpret, understand and use basic health concepts to enhance personal, family, and community health.
  • Synthesize interactive literacy and social skills to establish and monitor personal, family and community goals related to all aspects of health.

​Essential Understandings

  • A wellness view of health includes the well-being of body, mind and relationships with others.

  • Identifying and dealing with risk factors that are within one's control are essential for achieving wellness.

 

Essential Question

 

How is my personal health influenced by the choices and decisions I make?