Body, Wellness & Movement
Objectives
- D03.S1.10.01 Analyze how chronic stress, sleep, and movement shape mood, thinking, and long-term health.
- D03.S1.10.02 Explain how different cultures and times have understood the body-mind connection and assess what evidence supports each.
- D03.S2.10.01 Apply principles of training, such as progressive effort and recovery, to build a safe and sustainable movement plan.
- D03.S2.10.02 Evaluate how technology, such as fitness trackers and apps, supports or distorts a healthy relationship with movement and the body.
- D03.S3.10.01 Evaluate popular diets and nutrition claims using scientific evidence, without shaming any body.
- D03.S3.10.02 Explain the environmental footprint of different foods and diets and how food choices affect climate and ecosystems.
Essential questions
- How do chronic stress, sleep, and movement shape my mood, thinking, and long-term health, and how have different cultures understood the body–mind connection?
- How do I build a safe, sustainable movement plan, and how does technology help or distort my relationship with my body?
- How do I evaluate nutrition claims with evidence, without shaming any body, and what is the environmental footprint of what I eat?
Big ideas
- Chronic stress, sleep, and movement shape mood, thinking, and long-term health, and cultures across time have understood the body–mind connection in ways evidence can be weighed.
- A safe, sustainable movement plan is built on progressive effort and recovery, and technology can support or distort a healthy relationship with the body.
- Nutrition claims are weighed against evidence without shaming, and food choices carry an environmental footprint that shapes climate and ecosystems.
Lessons
- 1 The Body Under Chronic Stress 55 minutes
- 2 Sleep: The Brain's Night Shift 55 minutes
- 3 Movement Shapes Mood and Thinking 55 minutes
- 4 Reading My Own Body's Signals 55 minutes
- 5 The Body-Mind Connection Across Cultures and Times 55 minutes
- 6 What Evidence Supports Each View? 55 minutes
- 7 Progressive Effort and Recovery 55 minutes
- 8 Building a Movement Plan That Lasts 55 minutes
- 9 Tech in My Pocket: Help or Distortion? 55 minutes
- 10 Diets and Claims: Reading the Evidence 55 minutes
- 11 What My Food Costs the Earth 55 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of a learner analyzing how stress, sleep, and movement shape their mood and thinking; a body–mind traditions-and-evidence analysis; a personal movement plan built on progressive effort and recovery; a critical evaluation of a fitness tracker or app; an evidence-based evaluation of a popular diet or nutrition claim; and a food-footprint reflection, gathered as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 2 — Body, Wellness & Movement
Overview
This unit reads the body as the somatic ground of thought and feeling and as a system shaped by habit, building on Grade 9’s somatic basis of emotion and its movement-and-food-system work. Learners analyze how chronic stress, sleep, and movement shape mood, thinking, and long-term health, and explain how different cultures and times have understood the body–mind connection, assessing what evidence supports each. They apply principles of training — progressive effort and recovery — to build a safe and sustainable movement plan, and evaluate how technology such as fitness trackers and apps supports or distorts a healthy relationship with movement and the body. They evaluate popular diets and nutrition claims using scientific evidence, without shaming any body, and explain the environmental footprint of different foods and diets and how food choices affect climate and ecosystems. The body is taught with dignity and joy, honoring the wide range of bodies and abilities.
Essential questions
- How do chronic stress, sleep, and movement shape my mood, thinking, and long-term health, and how have different cultures understood the body–mind connection?
- How do I build a safe, sustainable movement plan, and how does technology help or distort my relationship with my body?
- How do I evaluate nutrition claims with evidence, without shaming any body, and what is the environmental footprint of what I eat?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Body Under Chronic Stress | D03.S1.10.01 |
| 2 | Sleep: The Brain’s Night Shift | D03.S1.10.01 |
| 3 | Movement Shapes Mood and Thinking | D03.S1.10.01 |
| 4 | Reading My Own Body’s Signals | D03.S1.10.01 |
| 5 | The Body-Mind Connection Across Cultures and Times | D03.S1.10.02 |
| 6 | What Evidence Supports Each View? | D03.S1.10.02 |
| 7 | Progressive Effort and Recovery | D03.S2.10.01 |
| 8 | Building a Movement Plan That Lasts | D03.S2.10.01 |
| 9 | Tech in My Pocket: Help or Distortion? | D03.S2.10.02 |
| 10 | Diets and Claims: Reading the Evidence | D03.S3.10.01 |
| 11 | What My Food Costs the Earth | D03.S3.10.02 |