S+Stefani,Dylan+Roland


 * Teacher: Mr. Stefani**
 * Office: Health Wing 007**
 * Office Phone: 555-5555**
 * Office Hours:555-5554** ** E-mail:dylan.stefani@maine.edu **

=Summary of Unit= From personal health and sexual health to knowledge about alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and other substances, students will comprehend the concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance their personal health. Topics also include healthy eating, violence prevention, and diseases. Students will be able to make a health promotion ad that displays information from the content standards. Students will integrate many new technologies into their assignments to better their “tech skills”. Some of those technologies include: iMovie, Garageband, Glogster, blogs, wiki’s, and other tools that will better their productions. By self-assessment and peer review students will expand their personal and social health to a mastery level. They will be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in the “real world” using their knowledge of all the health concepts. =Establish Goals:= =Maine Learning Result: Health & Physical Education= =C-Health promotion and risk reduction= =C1- Healthy Practices and Behaviors= =Grade 9.=

=Students will understand that:= • healthy eating can influence a healtier lifestyle. • increased physical activity can improve one's health. • behaviors relating towards drugs and alcohol are unhealthy.

=Essential Questions:= • Knowing that many foods an drinks today are unhealthy, why does America still advertise and sell these products? • How can a regular exercise routine increase one's health? • Why does America focus more on death rates of drugs and alcohol when it is not the leading cause of death?

=Students will know:= •The basic knowledge of body structure and usage. • Statistics of many health realted fields. •Who created/designed major improvments in health and medicine.

=Students will be able to:= •Design a plan of healthy habits. •Critique and evaluate their own habits. •Produce a model of their understandings related towards their habits. •Analyze their health plans and improve them. •Role-play and demonstrate healthy habits while working with other students. •Reflect upon healthy habits with a better understanding and self-assess there knowledge.

**Performance Task Overview:** You are a team of marketers in Franklin County who have signed up to make a health concepts ad. You are to create an ad that evaluates and gives advice on daily health habits that can be improved. There is a wide range of health concepts that should be covered in this ad: hygiene, physical activity, disease prevention, anti-drug and tobacco, anti-drinking, and issues relating towards unprotected sex and STD’s. Evaluate a range of health planners/diary blogs to see what health issues people have on a daily bases. Your ad will be analyzed and evaluated by the Board of Directors at Franklin Memorial Hospital and other leaders in the HCC (Healthy Community Coalition). If your ad is chosen you and your team will be in charge of designing your ad to be shown on the TV. Your ad will also be uploaded to Youtube for the publics view. Be creative, concise, and cooperative with your teammates to finish this task.

=Expectations:=
 * Absent/Late policy:** All work that is not turned in ontime will have 5 points automatically deducted the following day it is turned in. From then on points deducted will double each school day. EXAMPLE: If a paper was due on thursday and you would have got a 100%, friday it would be 95%, monday it would be 85%, tuesday it would be 65%. No papers will be acepted after the third day unless prior arrangments have been made with me. If you were absent for a class, exceptions will be made if you come see me the morning you come back to school. It is your responsibility to track me down if you missed something, not the other way around.
 * Assignment Expectations:** Assignments should be done to what is expected. All assignments have some sort of directions on it. If it is not clear to you, please feel free to ask questions.
 * Plagerism Policy:** Because we will be useing the internet and other resources for educational purposes, plagerism will not be tollerated. All pictures, movie clips, and information that you gained from another resource besides yourself should be referenced. I will take off points for things that look suspicious. I will also give you a chance to talk with me about the alledged plagerism if you are confused why it is.
 * Respect:** This is a health class. All opinions and beliefs are welcomed in the class. You are here to increase your personal health as well as your social health. Bullying, name calling, teasing, and ext. will not be accepted. You will be warned and the next step afterword would be to the principles office to tell him what you did.

=Benchmarks= •Google Calendar uploaded to wiki: Students will design a plan of healthy habits that they should follow in a given day. They will have to put "roadblocks" in their daily calendar that symbolize real life tough situations. Google calendar can offer many tools that will help you design your calendar. Students will work individually on this because it is their personal health calendar, but they can have anyone in the class revise it and assist in further detail of thee design. Students can work outside if more comfortable. **100 points** •Experiment Recording: take useful information and apply the information to a concrete product (essay, poem song, ext.). Student will write a two page essay, compose a song, or tell a poem about how their routine benifits them, how it hurts their health, and ways to improve their routine to better their health. Students will be graded on essay quality, whether they answered the questions asked, and their overall analysis on the product. **100 points** •Slideshows: create a slideshow of pictures you took while following your healthy habits calendar. Students will create a school week calendar slideshow using iMovie (5 days =5 people to a group) and show what each person did on a certain day. In a Jigsaw, students will discuss and brainstorm what their finished product will look like. They will display this in front of the class. **50 points** •Audio Newscast: Create a ad that promotes or advises prevention about current health topics. Students will develope a skit that lasts no longer then 10 minutes and no short then 5 minutes. This skit should be creative, concise, intriguing and informational about life situations. The use of voice recordings will be neccesary for this task. **50 points** •Imovie: Task for students: You are a team of marketers in Franklin County who have signed up to make a health concepts ad. You are to create an ad that evaluates and gives advice on daily health habits that can be improved. There is a wide range of health concepts that should be covered in this ad: hygiene, physical activity, disease prevention, anti-drug and tobacco, anti-drinking, and issues relating towards unprotected sex and STD’s. Evaluate a range of health planners/diary blogs to see what health issues people have on a daily bases. Your ad will be analyzed and evaluated by the Board of Directors at Franklin Memorial Hospital and other leaders in the HCC (Healthy Community Coalition). If your ad is chosen you and your team will be in charge of designing your ad to be shown on the TV. Your ad will also be uploaded to Youtube for the publics view. Be creative, concise, and cooperative with your teammates to finish this task. **200 points** •Oral report: Present your findings to the class using a poem, rap, or a song. In a short essay, poem, song, speech to the class, or any approved other way, students will ellaborate on the information they have learned and the skills they have aquired from the lessons and activities. After students have completed this task students will then decide what activity they would like to do the following class while having the health party. This will be presented at the front of the class. **25 points**
 * Total product points: 525 points**

=Grading Scale:=

**A** (93 -100), **A-** (90 - 92), **B+** (87 - 89), **B** (83 - 86), **B-** (80 - 82), **C+**(77 - 79), **C** (73-76), **C-** (70 - 72), **D+**(67 - 69), **D** (63 - 66), **D-** (60 - 62), **F** (0 - 59). A grade of a C- is required for each individual course in the Block. Your grade for the Block will be the average of the four grades you earn from each individual course of the Block.