The Wellness Wheel
Exercising, eating well, and getting enough sleep are all part of this dimension of wellness.
What is physical wellness?
This USDA tool shows a plate divided into 5 food groups.
What is MyPlate?
Finish the phrase: “The front sells. The back ____.”
What is tells?
This protective factor means bouncing back and adapting after hard times
What is resilience?
Saying “That’s not funny. Knock it off.” in the moment is this one of the 5 D’s.
What is Direct?
Your friendships and how you get along with others belong to this dimension of wellness.
What is social wellness?
MyPlate says to fill half your plate with these two food groups.
What are fruits and vegetables?
Every 4 grams of sugar on a label equals about this much.
What is 1 teaspoon?
Strengths and assets that protect your mental health and help you bounce back.
What are protective factors?
This organization teaches the 10 signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
What is One Love?
Teens need this many hours of sleep each night.
What is 8–10 hours?
Foods packed with vitamins and minerals compared to their calories are called this.
What are nutrient-dense foods?
Not having reliable access to enough affordable, nutritious food.
What is food insecurity?
DAILY DOUBLE
Negative attitudes or labels about mental health that make people afraid to ask for help.
What is stigma?
The more people watching, the more each one assumes someone else will act.
What is the bystander effect?
Volunteering at an animal shelter because it gives you a sense of meaning and fits your values supports this dimension of wellness.
What is spiritual wellness?
A student skips breakfast and lunch, then eats a huge dinner. Name the eating pattern from class that would help AND one way skipping meals affects the body or brain.
What are consistent meals? (plus one effect: low energy, trouble focusing, feeling irritable, or overeating later; both parts needed)
DAILY DOUBLE
An area where people live far from a grocery store with fresh, affordable food. Baltimore calls it a Healthy Food Priority Area.
What is a food desert?
Believing you can handle a challenge. It grows each time you work through something hard.
What is self-efficacy?
Checking a partner’s phone, demanding their location, and keeping them from friends are all examples of this imbalance.
What is power and control?
After a breakup, Sam feels anxious, stops eating lunch, scrolls on his phone until 2 a.m., and skips practice with his team. Name the dimension of wellness where the problem started AND one dimension it spread to.
What is emotional/mental wellness? (spread to physical wellness through eating and sleep, or social wellness by skipping time with the team; both parts needed)
A student who can’t have dairy misses the main source of this bone-building mineral. Name the mineral AND one non-dairy food that provides it.
What is calcium? (plus one food: fortified soy milk or other plant milk, tofu, leafy greens like kale or broccoli, or almonds)
A cereal box has six claims: “Natural,” “Low sodium,” “Made with real fruit,” “Clean ingredients,” “Excellent source of vitamin C,” and “Supports immunity.” Name the TWO claims that have real rules behind them.
What are “Low sodium” and “Excellent source of vitamin C”?
A student knows about the 988 Lifeline, can tell a reliable health website from an influencer’s post, and knows how to make a counselor appointment. This student is strong in this protective factor.
What is health literacy?
Two friends argue once and apologize the next day. That’s conflict, not bullying, because bullying requires these TWO things.
What are a pattern (repeated behavior) and a power imbalance?