Body, Wellness & Lifelong Movement

Objectives

• D03.S1.12.01 Integrate the body-mind connection into a personal framework for lifelong awareness and wellbeing, and explain it to others.
• D03.S1.12.02 Articulate how to sustain their own and others' embodied health and dignity across a lifetime, including aging and change.
• D03.S2.12.01 Integrate movement into a lifelong, adaptable plan that supports physical, mental, and social health.
• D03.S2.12.02 Explain how environments, such as cities, workplaces, and natural spaces, shape people's ability to move and propose changes that widen access.

Essential questions

• How do I integrate the body–mind connection into a personal framework for lifelong awareness and wellbeing, and explain it to others?
• How do I sustain my own and others' embodied health and dignity across a lifetime, including aging and change?
• How do I integrate movement into a lifelong, adaptable plan, and how do environments shape — and widen or narrow — people's ability to move?

Big ideas

• The body–mind connection can be integrated into a personal framework for lifelong awareness and wellbeing, one I can explain and pass on to others.
• Embodied health and dignity are a lifetime's work: sustaining my own and others' wellbeing across aging and change is a practice, not a one-time fix.
• Movement belongs in every life and every environment; a lifelong, adaptable movement plan supports physical, mental, and social health, and environments can be reshaped to widen access.

Lessons

1. 1 The Body That Thinks and Feels 55 minutes
2. 2 Reading the Body's Signals 50 minutes
3. 3 The Stress Wave and the Return to Calm 55 minutes
4. 4 A Framework I Can Carry and Explain 55 minutes
5. 5 A Body Across a Lifetime 55 minutes
6. 6 Dignity Is Embodied 50 minutes
7. 7 Caring for Another's Body and Dignity 55 minutes
8. 8 Movement Feeds the Whole Person 50 minutes
9. 9 The Building Blocks of a Movement Life 55 minutes
10. 10 Designing My Own Movement Plan 55 minutes
11. 11 Making It Stick and Adapting 50 minutes
12. 12 Environments Shape Whether We Move 55 minutes
13. 13 Designing for Every Body 55 minutes
14. 14 The Whole Arc: A Life in a Body 55 minutes

Assessment plan

A written lifelong body–mind framework that the learner can explain to others; an across-a-lifetime embodied-health reflection on sustaining one's own and others' dignity through aging and change; a lifelong, adaptable movement plan; and an environment-and-movement-access proposal that names a concrete change widening access, gathered as capstone portfolio artifacts.