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Lesson 2: What Affects your Health? Understanding Heredity

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Lesson 2
Big Idea: Understanding how heredity, environment, and other factors that affect your health can help you make healthy decisions.
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Name at least 2 things in life that you believe affect your health?

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What do you know:

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What do you WANT to know?

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AS you go through the lesson come back here and take notes on what you LEARN.

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Explain how ATTITUDE may affect someone's health:

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What is a BEHAVIOR that could impact your Health?

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Give an example of why information on heredity could be really important to know:

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Environment is the _______ of your surroundings.
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Explain how each of these could impact a person's health:

a. Your home (physical location of where you live)?
b. The people in your life?
c. Your culture?

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Why is availability of parks on the list? How does that affect ones health?

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Why is this one on the list? Explain how it affects your health.

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Think about your friends/peers, how do they affect you positively?

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Think about your friends/peers, how do they affect you negatively?

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Culture is the _______ beliefs, customs, and _______ of a group.
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Why is this true?

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What is one behavior that you have that has a positive effect on your health?

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Media can affect your decisions and it can also affect your health. How does social media impact one's mental/physical/social health?

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List two OTHER ways that media and
technology may influence your health.

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What does heredity mean?

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Define Environment. Identify 3 types of environment.

Now let's take what we have learned and apply it to real scenarios. Name some positive and negative affects of each. Be sure to give specific and relevant examples.
Positives and Negatives
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What is the Negative Impact of Environment on a person?

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What is the Positive Impact of Environment on a person?

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What is the Negative Impact of Peers on a person?

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What is the Positive Impact of Peers on a person?

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What is the Negative Impact of Culture on a person?

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What is the Positive Impact of Culture on a person?

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What is the Negative Impact of Media on a person?

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What is the Positive Impact of Media on a person?

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What is the Negative Impact of Technology on a person?

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What is the Positive Impact of Technology on a person?

Use the link provided to take a quizz. We will go over the correct answers in class. Those scoring below an 80% must redo this lesson.
Extension Assignment
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Of the people who do spend time on social media sites, what percentage are unable to control the amount of time they spend online?

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Brain scans taken from individuals who exhibit an psychological addiction to online behaviors show a degradation in the white matter that control the following:

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One advantage of achieving proficiency in heavy media use is the ability to multi-task effectively.

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In your own words, explain Phantom Vibration Syndrome.