VELS / Focus Areas

• Health and Physical Education
• Science

Throughlines

• There are laws, systems and cycles that govern and help us explain the way the physical and natural environment works.
• We take responsibility for our own physical, mental, social and emotional health and wellbeing and contribute to that of others.

Understandings

• There are systems in my body that work together.
• These systems contribute to my health.
• Being healthy and happy is important.
• There are things that I can do to be healthy and happy.

Focus Question

• How can we keep our bodies working at their best?

Contributing Questions

• What systems and cycles make my body work?
• What can I do to keep myself healthy?