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Digital Wellness

Ninth graders learn digital wellness — using screens in healthy ways. Taking breaks, protecting sleep, moving regularly, and good posture keep screens from harming your body and mind. They sort healthy habits from unhealthy ones, then set digital boundaries.

Grade 9Digital Wellness45 minutes1 class periodSHAPEExplicit teaching4 StandardsSHAPE
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Take screen breaks.
  • ✓Protect sleep.
  • ✓Move & sit well.
  • ✓Set boundaries.
Essential Question

How do you keep screens from harming your health?

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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Healthy Tech, or Unhealthy?

Project this and sort each into Healthy tech habit or Unhealthy.

📱 Sort each — healthy tech habit, or unhealthy?Try it
💚 Healthy tech habit
👎 Unhealthy
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The Lesson · Health & PE Flow (Warm-Up · Learn · Practice · Apply · Cool-Down)

45 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Warm-Up — Screen Time

5 min

How do you feel after hours of scrolling — body and mind?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Pose the question.
  • Share ideas.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Think.
  • Share.
  • Get ready.
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Learn — Digital Wellness

11 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Healthy Tech or Unhealthy?
  • Sort each habit.
  • Note breaks & sleep.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Note it.
3

Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a screen break idea.
  • Check your posture.
  • Plan a device-free time.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name.
  • Check.
  • Plan.
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Apply — Apply

11 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Set 2 digital boundaries.
  • Protect your sleep.
  • Add movement breaks.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Set.
  • Protect.
  • Move.
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Cool-Down — Cool-Down

5 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a healthy tech habit.
  • Name an unhealthy one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Name one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the SHAPE America National Standards for Health Education and Physical Education.

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HE.1

Explain how screen use affects health.

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HE.7

Practice healthy technology habits.

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HE.2

Analyze influences of media and tech.

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HE.5

Set healthy digital boundaries.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Healthy/unhealthy cards.
  • Frame: "a healthy tech habit is ___."
  • Use clear examples.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Sort healthy vs unhealthy only.
  • Use 4 habits.
  • Use pictures.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Audit your screen time.
  • Plan a digital reset.
  • Design an ergonomic setup.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📱Habit cards
  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 💻Healthy Tech or Unhealthy?
  • 📋Boundary planner
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

digital wellnesshealthy screen usescreen timetime spent on devicesposturehow you hold your bodyergonomicshealthy setup for the bodyboundarya limit you setblue lightscreen light that affects sleepbreaktime away from screensbalancemixing screens with other activity
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Name a healthy tech habit.
Take breaks, protect sleep, move often, or sit with good posture.
QUESTION 2
Name an unhealthy one.
Scrolling for hours, screens before bed, or sitting all day.
QUESTION 3
Why does digital wellness matter?
Screens can affect your body, sleep, and mind.

Cool-down: digital wellness.

Have students set two digital boundaries. A printable boundary planner is in the PE & Health library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Digital WellnessPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: balance, blue light, boundary, break, digital wellness, ergonomics, posture, screen time
  1. mixing screens with other activity
  2. time spent on devices
  3. a limit you set
  4. healthy setup for the body
  5. screen light that affects sleep
  6. time away from screens
  7. healthy screen use
  8. how you hold your body

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Name a healthy tech habit.
  2. Name an unhealthy one.
  3. Why does digital wellness matter?
Answer key — Part A: 1) balance · 2) screen time · 3) boundary · 4) ergonomics · 5) blue light · 6) break · 7) digital wellness · 8) posture
Part B: 1) Take breaks, protect sleep, move often, or sit with good posture. 2) Scrolling for hours, screens before bed, or sitting all day. 3) Screens can affect your body, sleep, and mind.