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Keeping Your Systems Healthy

Ninth graders learn that all the body systems work together — and the same healthy habits (varied food, activity, sleep, water) support every one of them, while risky habits harm them. They sort the habits, then set a whole-body health goal.

Grade 9Keeping Your Body Systems Healthy45 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…

  • ✓Know systems connect.
  • ✓Spot helpful habits.
  • ✓Avoid harmful ones.
  • ✓Set a health goal.
Essential Question

What habits keep ALL your body systems running well?

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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Helps, or Harms?

Project this and sort each habit into Helps your systems or Harms them.

💚 Sort each — helps your body systems, or harms them?Try it
💚 Helps your systems
👎 Harms them
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The Lesson · Health & PE Flow (Warm-Up · Learn · Practice · Apply · Cool-Down)

45 minutes, five moves

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1

Warm-Up — All Connected

5 min

How can one habit, like sleep, help your whole body at once?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

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

🎒 Student Actions

  • Think.
  • Share.
  • Get ready.
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Learn — Healthy Systems

11 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Helps or Harms?
  • Sort each habit.
  • Note habits affect all systems.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Note it.
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Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a helpful habit.
  • Name a harmful one.
  • Say which system it affects.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name.
  • Name.
  • Connect.
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Apply — Apply

11 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Set a whole-body health goal.
  • Name one habit to improve.
  • Plan to do it.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Set.
  • Name.
  • Plan.
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Cool-Down — Cool-Down

5 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a helpful habit.
  • Name a harmful 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 habits affect body systems.

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HE.7

Practice whole-body health habits.

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HE.5

Make choices that protect health.

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HE.2

Analyze influences on health habits.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Helps/harms cards.
  • Frame: "sleep helps my ___."
  • Use clear examples.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Sort helps vs harms.
  • Use 4 habits.
  • Use pictures.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Map a habit to each system.
  • Make a health-habit tracker.
  • Set a weekly goal.
Materials

What to gather

  • 💚Habit cards
  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 💻Helps or Harms?
  • 📋Goal sheet
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

body systema group of organs with a jobhabita regular practicenutritiongetting the right nutrientsactivityphysical movementsleeprest the body needshydrationhaving enough waterinterconnectedsystems affect each otherwellbeingoverall health
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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 habit that helps your systems.
Eat varied foods, stay active, sleep, or drink water.
QUESTION 2
Name one that harms them.
Smoking/vaping, sitting all day, or skipping sleep.
QUESTION 3
Why do habits matter for the whole body?
The systems are connected, so one habit helps many.

Cool-down: keeping your systems healthy.

Have students set a whole-body health goal. A printable goal sheet is in the PE & Health library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

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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.

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Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: activity, body system, habit, hydration, interconnected, nutrition, sleep, wellbeing
  1. a regular practice
  2. rest the body needs
  3. overall health
  4. systems affect each other
  5. having enough water
  6. physical movement
  7. a group of organs with a job
  8. getting the right nutrients

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Name a habit that helps your systems.
  2. Name one that harms them.
  3. Why do habits matter for the whole body?
Answer key — Part A: 1) habit · 2) sleep · 3) wellbeing · 4) interconnected · 5) hydration · 6) activity · 7) body system · 8) nutrition
Part B: 1) Eat varied foods, stay active, sleep, or drink water. 2) Smoking/vaping, sitting all day, or skipping sleep. 3) The systems are connected, so one habit helps many.