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What’s Your Wellness Superpower?

Lesson Plan

Discover Your Strengths Lesson Plan

Students will identify their top personal wellness strengths and plan actionable steps to develop these strengths into lifelong healthy habits.

Building on personal health strengths boosts confidence and fosters sustainable wellness practices.

Audience

5th Grade Students

Time

45 minutes

Approach

Reflect, share, and plan.

Materials

Prep

Preparation

10 minutes

Step 1

Introduction

5 minutes

  • Welcome students and introduce the concept of a “Wellness Superpower.”
  • Show the first two slides of the Wellness Superpower Slides highlighting examples of strengths.

Step 2

Strengths Brainstorm Carousel

15 minutes

  • Divide students into four groups and assign each to a chart paper station.
  • At each station, groups brainstorm wellness strengths (e.g., physical fitness, healthy eating, stress management) on sticky notes.
  • After 3 minutes, rotate to the next station until all groups visit each station.

Step 3

Reflection

10 minutes

  • Distribute the My Wellness Superpower Reflection.
  • Students individually select their top 2 strengths and write why these are their “superpowers” and set one goal to build each strength.

Step 4

Share-It-Out Circle

10 minutes

  • Arrange students in a circle.
  • Invite volunteers to share their chosen wellness superpower and goal.
  • Encourage positive feedback and peer suggestions.

Step 5

Closing

5 minutes

  • Recap key takeaways and remind students to keep working on their goals.
  • Collect reflection sheets and display chart papers for ongoing classroom reference.
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Slide Deck

What’s Your Wellness Superpower?

Welcome! Today, we’ll discover your personal health strengths—your Wellness Superpowers! Get ready to explore what makes you feel strong, energetic, and happy.

Welcome students! Introduce today’s lesson: Discovering our Wellness Superpowers. Ask: What makes you feel healthy and strong?

What is a Wellness Superpower?

A Wellness Superpower is a skill or habit you already do well that helps you stay healthy—like being great at eating and drinking, moving your body, or managing stress.

Define wellness superpower. Emphasize that it’s something we do well that supports our health every day.

Examples of Wellness Superpowers

  • Physical Fitness: Enjoying exercise and movement
  • Healthy Eating: Choosing balanced meals and snacks
  • Mindful Breathing: Using breath to calm your mind
  • Hydration Hero: Drinking water throughout the day
  • Sleep Champion: Getting enough rest each night

Share examples. Invite students to shout out their ideas for other wellness superpowers.

Strengths Brainstorm Carousel

  1. Form four groups and grab sticky notes and markers.
  2. Go to your first chart paper station and write down wellness strengths you notice in that category.
  3. After 3 minutes, rotate to the next station until everyone visits all four.
  4. Have fun sharing ideas and learning from each other!

Explain the carousel activity. Show chart paper stations around the room labeled with different strength categories.

Reflection Time

Take your My Wellness Superpower Reflection sheet. Pick your top 2 strengths, write why they’re your “superpowers,” and set one goal to make each even stronger.

Distribute the reflection sheet. Encourage students to think deeply about their top two strengths and set specific goals.

Share-It-Out Circle

Sit in a circle. Volunteers share their chosen superpower and goal. Together, give positive feedback and suggestions to help each other succeed.

Arrange students in a circle. Encourage sharing and supportive feedback.

Keep Your Superpowers Strong!

Celebrate your progress, practice your goals each week, and support your classmates. Remember: small steps every day lead to big health superpowers!

Summarize the lesson and encourage ongoing practice. Remind students to check in with their goals.

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Activity

Strengths Brainstorm Carousel

Objective: Students will collaborate to generate a variety of personal wellness strengths across four key health categories.

Materials:

Setup (Prep Time: 10 minutes)

  1. Place chart papers around the room under these headings:
    • Physical Fitness
    • Healthy Eating
    • Stress Management
    • Sleep & Hydration
  2. Provide each station with a stack of sticky notes and a marker.
  3. Arrange desks or chairs so groups can easily move from station to station.

Instructions (15 minutes total)

  1. Divide the class into four groups and assign each group a starting station.
  2. At your station, work together to brainstorm as many wellness strengths as you can.
    • Write one idea per sticky note and post it on the chart paper.
  3. After 3 minutes, the teacher will signal groups to rotate clockwise to the next station.
  4. Continue brainstorming at each station until every group has visited all four stations.
  5. Use the final 2 minutes to review your current station’s ideas and add any new thoughts.

Debrief (10 minutes)

  1. Gather as a whole class in front of each chart paper.
  2. Read aloud clusters of sticky notes and group similar strengths together.
  3. Facilitate discussion with prompts:
    • Which strengths came up most often?
    • Were there any strengths that surprised you?
    • How can we practice these strengths every day?
  4. Ask students to reflect: “Which station did you contribute to most, and why?”

Next: Transition to individual reflection with the My Wellness Superpower Reflection sheet, where students choose their top two strengths and set personal goals.

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Journal

My Wellness Superpower Reflection

  1. My Top 2 Wellness Strengths (Superpowers)
    • Strength 1: ________________________________


    • Strength 2: ________________________________


  2. Why These Are My Superpowers
    • Strength 1: ___________________________________________________________________________





    • Strength 2: ___________________________________________________________________________





  3. A Time I Used Each Superpower
    • Strength 1 Example: ___________________________________________________________________





    • Strength 2 Example: ___________________________________________________________________





  4. My SMART Goals to Build Each Superpower
    • For Strength 1: _______________________________________________________________________





    • For Strength 2: _______________________________________________________________________





  5. Tracking Progress & Celebrating Success
    • How I Will Track My Goals: ____________________________________________________________


    • How I Will Celebrate When I Succeed: _________________________________________________


  6. Bonus: Which Classmate’s Superpower Inspires You & Why?
    ________________________________________________________________________________________


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Cool Down

Share-It-Out Circle

Objective:
Students will share their personal Wellness Superpowers and SMART goals, practice active listening, and give positive peer feedback.

Guidelines:

  • Sit in a circle so everyone can see each other.
  • Listen quietly and respectfully when someone is speaking (eyes on speaker, no interruptions).
  • Use supportive feedback language:
    • I like… (something you appreciated)
    • I wonder… (a question or suggestion)

Materials:

Instructions:

  1. Choose a student to start.
  2. When it’s your turn, share these two things:
    • “My Wellness Superpower is __.”
    • “My SMART goal to build it is __.”
  3. After each share, one peer gives feedback using an I like… or I wonder… statement.
  4. Pass it around the circle until everyone has shared and received feedback.

Quick Reflection:
After everyone has shared, write one new idea or inspiration you gained from a classmate:

________________________________________________________________________________


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