Levine, Tia, 3019044

September 24th, 2014

Lesson Plan: Wellness Wheel
This lesson plan was created for use in a grade 8 Health Classroom as part of the Personal
Health Practices unit. The lesson will explain the five domains of wellness and provide a visual
representation of how all areas of health are connected and influence one another. This will help
students understand why they are required to learn each unit of the health curriculum, as the
lesson will demonstrate that a healthy individual maintains a balance across all health domains.
Stage 1 expected learning: GLO: A1, Personal Health Practices, (5.1) by the end of
grade 8 students will be expected to appreciate and value the benefits of healthy lifestyles
practices for a healthy body. SLO: (K.5.8.A.1) Students will examine positive and negative
health habits of daily living for self and/or other (e.g., daily physical activity, skin care, hygiene,
dental hygiene, rest, caring for others, handling/sharing of food/beverages, tobacco use...),
(S.5.8.A.1) Students will apply personal and social management skills (e.g., goal-setting,
decision-making/problem-solving...) in case scenarios related to personal health practices (e.g.,
sleep habits, cleanliness, nutritional practices, exercise habits...). (Manitoba Education, 2014)
Stage 1 Essential questions:
1)

What are the five domains of wellness and why? How do they affect your

2)

health and influence one another?

What do you do to look after your personal health in each domain and why do

3)

you choose those activities?

How does what we put in (fuel) and what we put out (energy) affect us?

Stage 2 Assessment evidence and artifacts: Students will keep a journal each year for
grades 6-8 containing the wellness wheel handout. Upon completion of the handout they

will compare their results to that of the previous year to assess whether or not their goals
were met. Students will then determine their strong areas for the current year and the
area(s) that still require improvement and write new short and long-term goals to achieve
the desired result.
Stage 3 Lesson outline:
Activate: Since this is an introductory lesson to the Personal Health Practices unit
I will not review the last work, but have a guided discussion with my students on what
they remember about wellness from the previous year. Key words provided by the
students will be written on the board in a brainstorm format. This will provide an
understanding of what my students already know and remember about the subject, which
can be used as a guide to build upon when planning lessons. I will then continue the
discussion by asking students the essential questions previously stated. (10 minutes)
Acquire: After the guided discussion I will define the five health domains and
provide examples of how one domain influences the other, as well as, examples of
activities in each domain that my students can participate in to improve their health in
that area. (10 minutes)
Apply: Before providing students with the hand out I will give instructions on
how to complete the wellness wheel and explain the criteria I will be assessing. The
criteria to be assessed will be answering every question on the survey, accurately adding
the scores for each health domain and matching them to the correlating number coloured
on the wheel, comparing and contrasting their goals and health in each domain from the
previous year to their current standings, accurately assessing which domains they have
improved in and which require improvement and providing a detailed and well thought

out response to goal setting, which includes demonstrating an understanding of the

difference between a short and long-term goal, proper sentence structure and use of
terminology. (See Appendix A) Students would then be given time to work on the
handout for the remainder of the class. (20 minutes)
This lesson can be used in a grade 6-8 Health class when
teaching the unit on Personal Health Practices as it fits the SLOs and
GLOs previously stated. Although this is a health lesson, it could be
used in Psychology as well with the necessary modifications made. In
order to transform this lesson to be used for a Psychology class more
emphasis could be placed on social and emotional areas of wellness
and less on goal setting. This could make a great Social Psychology
lesson. I felt this activity would be beneficial as it could be a strong
introduction to the study of overall health and wellness in both Health
and Psychology classes, both of which are my main areas of study.

References
Manitoba Education (2014). Healthy Lifestyle Practices. Physical
Health/ Health Education. Retrieved from
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/physhlth/framework/healthy.pdf
New Brunswick Department of Education (2005). Wellness Wheel
Activity. Health Education Curriculum Grade 7, 33-36. Retrieved from
http://www.gnb.ca/0000/publications/curric/hcgr7.pdf
Reazon Systems, Inc. (2014). iRubric: Wellness Wheel Assignment
Rubric. Rcampus. Retrieved from https://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?
code=XXWB74X&sp=yes&nocache=1411613130093

Appendix A

&Subject=Rubric: Wellness Wheel assignment&body=Emailing Rubric:

http://www.RCampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=XXWB74X&sp=yes
&nocache=1411613130375

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