Course Title: Lifetime Wellness 1a/1b
State: TN
State Course Title: Lifetime Wellness
State Course Code: G08H02
Indicator Evidence
Instructional Focus
Clear health goals and behavioral outcomes
A backwards design approach assures that expected behavioral outcomes are achieved. In each unit, clear objectives are given and provide the basis for what will be covered in the unit's lessons. Activities, critical thinking and discussion questions are included in every unit and provide students with rich experiences that allow them to demonstrate their newly acquired knowledge.
A Culumlative Project is laced throughout our course that guides students through assessing their own physical, mental, emotional and social health. Throughout the course, students work on creating a well rounded plan that includes clear health goals, understanding personal health needs and what influences their choices. Students also learn what resources are available to them so they can sustain the work they do and develop a plan for long term success.
Examples Include, but are not limited to, the following:
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 4, Lesson 2 - Students are taught how to create SMART goals
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 4, Cumulative Project 10 - Students set their own SMART fitness goals with clear behavioral outcomes.
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 6, Activity 1 - Students develop their own healthy habits to prevent diseaese. Habits are tracked and students reflect on if there has been an effective behavioral outcome.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 2, Activity 2 - Students develop a stress management plan, put it into action and reflect to ensure there are specific behavioral outcomes.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 3, Activity 3 - Students plan an activity to improve their mental wellness, perform the activity over a set amount of time and reflect on their behavioral outcomes achieved.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 7, Activity 3 - Students plan an activity as a way to deal with pressures. They perform the activity and then reflect on the behavioral outcomes achieved.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 8, Activity 1 - Students develop short and long term goals and turn their goals into a plan to ensure continued behavioral outcomes
Indicator Evidence
Research-based and theorydriven Students explore various health determinants impacting their physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being. The course not only covers these factors but also provides opportunities for students to develop skills based on research and theory that enhances health outcomes. From stress management to improving nutrition and recognizing healthy relationship dynamics, students gain a deeper understanding of the influences on their health and learn practical strategies for positive change.
Examples Include, but are not limited to, the following:
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 2 - Students evaluate how their attitude influences their fitness related health behaviors.
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 7 - Students consider and learn how research and theory based influences such as media, culture, family, economics, community, peers and themselves impact their health.
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 7, Cumulative Project 12 - Students consider how influences have shaped their own health and wellness beliefs.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 1, Lesson 4 - Students learn how their own mindset, a resaerch and theory based influence, impacts their own wellness.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 3, Lesson 2: Subsection: Sleep and Mental Health - Students learn how sleep, which has been proven to impact wellness, influences their own health.
Focus on protective factors Students assess their health, including vulnerability to health challenges, behavioral risks, and exposure to unhealthy situations. Protective factors are explicitly taught, practiced, and reinforced. Additionally, students create a long-term wellness plan. They also learn how strong relationships with caring adults, open family communication, community programs, and other protective factors can enhance their overall wellness.
Examples Include, but are not limited to, the following:
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 1, Lesson 2 - Students learn about protective factors across all areas of wellness such as eating right, staying active, getting snough sleep, etc. can have a positive impact on their physical health.
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 6, Lesson 4 - Students learn about protective factors related to preventing disease such as exercise, nutrition, being healthy mental health wise, and having healthy relationships.
Lifetime Wellness 1b: Unit 1, Lesson 3 - Students learn how their personality type impacts them and how to choose good self-care activities for themselves. Students also learn concrete strategies to boost their own moods.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 4, Lesson 5 - Students learn how to prevent abuse and how protective factors like strong relationships, open communication and community programs can have a positive impact.
Lifetime Wellness 1b: Unit 6, Lesson 5: Students learn about protective factors in regard to relationships such as consent, communication, and setting boundaries.
Indicator Evidence
Skills-based Essential skills are taught across all units and skills are assessed using formative and summative assessments, allowing students the opportunity to practice newly acquired skills.
Because interpersonal skills, including communication, refusal, accessing accurate information, decision-making, planning, goal-setting, self-control, and self-management, among others, are taught across all units, students are able to both build upon exisiting skills and practice newly acquired ones.
Activities and a cumulative project throughout the course offer practical application of essentail skills in context, such as creating SMART goals for a personal fitness plan and learning to recognize abuse, set boundaries, and make healthy choices under peer pressure.
Examples Include, but are not limited to, the following:
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 4, Cumulative Project 10 - Students create their own plan related to their fitness goals.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 2, Activity 2 - Students put together a self management plan to help better manage their own stress.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 4, Lesson 2 and Lesson 3 - Students learn refusal skills in regard to relationships.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 4, Lesson 3 - Students learn specific skills that can improve how they communicate in a healthy manner with others.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 6, Lesson 5 - Students learn refusal skills in regard to sexual activity.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 7, Lesson 5 - Students learn refusal skills in regard to drugs
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 4, Lesson 4 - Students learn how to make responsible decisions.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 8, Activity 1 - Students develop short and long term goals and turn their goals into a plan to ensure continued behavioral outcomes
Age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate
The content is written at a high school level, with examples that are developmentally and emotionally appropriate. Learning is made relevant through call-out boxes, short embedded videos and clickable features offering practical health tips, case studies, and health hacks. Concepts are presented in a logical sequence, with units building on prior knowledge, and lessons are broken down to reduce cognitive overload.
The information is tailored to today's high school students, presented in a friendly, approachable tone. The material is offered electronically as a dynamic textbook replacement, providing flexible access and robust literacy support tools.
Examples Include, but are not limited to, the following (note: examples also demonstrate how concepts and skills are covered in a logical sequence):
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 1, Cumulative Projects- Students assess their own physical, mental, emotional and social health to ensure learning is relevant and applicable to student's own daily lives.
Lifetime Wellness 1a, Unit 3, Activities and Cumulative Projects - Having assessed their physical health in a previous unit, this unit guides students to create a fitness plan based on where they are.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 1, Activities - Having assessed their emotional and mental health in an earlier unit, activities have students consider their own self image and develop a self care plan based on their own needs.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 3, Activity 1 - Having considered their own self care needs in an earlier unit, students learn what mental health resources are available.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 4, Activity 1 - Having learned about abuse, students learn how to raise awareness regarding abuse.
Lifetime Wellness 1b, Unit 6, Activiteis - Having learned about relationships in previous units, students now learn and consider their own reproductive health and how to take care of themselves.
Indicator Evidence
Teacher information The course includes 40 downloadable, customizable lesson plans that guide teachers in implementing the content and provide relevant instructional strategies. These plans feature learning objectives, standards, step-by-step instructions, differentiation options, and connections to interpersonal and employability skills. Lesson plans can be paired with customizable slide decks, which can be used independently or together. All materials are easily customizable to suit teachers' needs. Robust sample answers and rubrics are provided for all graded materials, including activities, critical thinking, and discussion questions to faciliatate evaluations. Additional teacher guides cover topics like AI, online learning, blended learning, inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, and interpersonal skills.
Examples Include, but are not limited to, the following:
Lifetime Wellness 1a and 1b : Teacher Resouces, Teaching Guides, Course Lesson Plans and Course Slides for Units 1 - 8 - The Instructional Strategies section of each Lesson Plan provides instructional strategies and suggested activities faciliate skills based assessments.
Teacher Resouces, Unit Suggested Answers for each unit provide robust answer keys and rubrics for all teacher graded assessments.
Accessibility Features: Digital Materials
All lessons within the materials are available in digital form and include a printable option.
All lessons and course materials are available for teachers and students in digital form and include a printable option. Materials are device agnostic, integrate seamlessly with most learning management systems and can be opened in any browser.
Courses are written at appropriate grade lexile levels. Written in an active voice, the narrative is vibrant. Relatable examples make the content accessible. Compelling visuals help to explain concepts in the surrounding narrative. Lessons are multi-modal. Some lessons include embedded videos which add interest or explain concepts. Every lesson includes a widget, allowing a student to click it to learn more.
In every lesson, materials include recommended supports, accommodations, and modifications for Students with Disabilities and English learners that will support their regular and active participation in accessing on grade level materials (e.g., modifying vocabulary words within word problems, sentence starters, etc.).
A podcast supports each unit. A professional voice actor narrated every unit’s introduction, learning objectives, and lessons, giving students an opportunity to listen to the material, or listen as they read along, or download and listen-on-the-go.
eDynamic courses meet WCAG accessibility guidelines. Each course contains the Literacy Support Toolbar feature. The Accessibility icon in the upper left corner of the webpage opens the toolbar when clicked. The toolbar provides the following supports:
● Translation - Translates content into 65 different languages, allowing English Language Learners to read material in their preferred language; many languages also feature a read-aloud function
● Read aloud – Provides extra reading assistance
● Dictionary and Pictionary - Defines unfamiliar words
● Screen masking – Features rulers to offer focus
● Highlighting – Includes highlighter with 4 different colors and allows highlights to be collected for outline and note creation purposes Except for captions and images of text, text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200% without loss of functionality. Additionally, the visual presentation of text and images has a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 or more. All images within the course feature captions and alt tags. Not only are closed captions provided for all pre recorded audio in synchronized media, the course also provides professional narrations of lesson content. All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard. Also, the keyboard focus indicator is visible. eDynamic tested the following assistive technology supports with its courseware:
● Magnification
● Text-to-speech
● Text-to-ASL
● On-screen keyboards
● Switch scanning controls
● Speech-to-text