HEALTH EDUCATION 2 COURSE NOTEBOOK SPRING 2012 NAME PERIOD Health and Wellness Department ‐ Conestoga High School, 200 Irish Road, Berwyn, PA 19312 Ms. Marcia Mariani, Health Educator / email: [email protected] Mr. Mike Cangi, Health Educator / email: [email protected] Mr. Mark Tirone, Health Education/ email [email protected] Revised August 2011 1 2 Dear Students and Parent(s)/Guardian(s), We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Health Education 2. We look forward to working with you during this semester and hope that you will email or visit us if you should have any questions concerning the course, your progress or questions about your health. The one thing we must all face ‐ whether young, old, student, parent or teacher ‐ is that without good personal health our lives are limited. Participation in classes, sports, dramas, social activities and our lives with our families is possible because of our good health. It is our hope that you will see this course not as merely a graduation requirement, but as a course of great personal importance to your future. Too often today, you and your peers suffer trauma due to preventable situations and conditions. Both teenagers and parents can pick up the newspaper and read of yet another risky choice or behavior that has ended in tragedy. These topics are often the ones we sweep under the rug and ignore, because the emotional energy it takes to come to grips with the reality of them is just too much on top of all the other stress we must deal with in our daily lives. In Health Education, we take the time to address these issues and much more. We know that the Health Care System of the 21st Century will require that each of us take a greater role in the responsibility for our own health. In preparation for this, you will find that Health 2 is a research‐based course. The area of Health Education is large and diverse. With this in mind, the world‐wide web is our textbook and our main educational goal is to increase student capacity for bettering your own level of mental, physical and social/emotional health by learning how to access accurate health information from the world‐wide web and your immediate environment. The children of this generation are predicted to have a longer life expectancy due to medical technology and easier access to health information. The one aspect of health you will still have in common with the adults in your lives will be prevention ‐ the key to a healthy life. Thinking ahead… Planning for your future… you will certainly need your body to move forward in life! Parent Verification of Receipt of this Letter and the Health 2 Student Notebook 1 The contents of this notebook are to be in a three‐ring binder. If a student should lose their notebook, they will be required to purchase the content for a second notebook at a cost of $5.00 for printing. 2 All assignments are designated in advance for student practice in long‐term goal setting, time management and self‐ directed learning. There are very few assignments in the semester, so each assignment is a valuable part of the final student grade. Late homework assignments will lose 10 points per cycle they are late. 3 All students receive a class participation grade, so it is essential that students BE IN CLASS! 4 Health 2 is a Graduation Requirement and a final grade of 65% or higher is required to pass the course. Information on the course project and course grading is provided this section of the notebook. 5 All students may use the Health 2 Research Project to fulfill their CHS Culminating Project requirement during the fall semester. Only juniors may use this project to fulfill the culminating project requirement during the spring semester. The project proposal form must be submitted with all required signatures to the appropriate administrator at the start of the course as required by the culminating project guidelines set forth by the school district. Finalization of the project paperwork must take place by the last class meeting for project credit to be awarded. The culminating project form is available in this notebook. Your classroom instructor will guide you through the proposal process which begins with a parent signature on the enclosed form. 6 Parents are encouraged to check their child’s notebook and Pinnacle periodically for returned assignments and grade updates, as this is the most timely progress report. Grade entry into Pinnacle does not occur as frequently as it does for major subjects but timely entry is more likely when student assignments are handed in on time. As is always our policy, if you have questions, please feel free to contact us. When at all possible please contact us through our email, as this will result in the timeliest response. Ms. Marcia Mariani (Health/Anatomy Physiology/Peer Mediation Team), [email protected] Mr. Mike Cangi (Health/Hwy Safety), [email protected] Mr. Mark Tirone (Health/P.E.), [email protected] I have read the above points of emphasis and the course notebook. STUDENT SIGNATURE PARENT/GUARDIAN(S) SIGNATURE 3 STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES CLASS PARTICIPATION (3 points per class period) o PREPARATION/ATTENDANCE o NOTE TAKING/ACTIVE PARTICIPATION/ACTIVE LISTENING o GOOD CITIZENSHIP / COOPERATION CLASSWORK AND HOMEWORK (point values will vary for each assignment) o CLASSROOM /HOMEWORK WORKSHEETS ARE PROVIDED IN THIS NOTEBOOK o IN THE EVENT OF ABSENCE FROM THIS CLASS, STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL MISSED CLASSWORK QUIZZES/TESTS (point values will vary) o QUIZZES/TESTS WILL BE UNANNOUNCED AND ALLOW FOR SOME OPEN NOTE TIME o QUIZZES/TESTS WILL VARY IN POINT VALUE COURSE PROJECT (75 points) o IS DUE ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012 ‐ STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE ONE BONUS POINT PER DAY EARLY UP TO 5 DAYS o MAY ALSO BE USED FOR CULMINATING PROJECT CREDIT – see form in this section of the notebook SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT CALENDAR AND GRADING UNIT 1: HEALTHY COMMUNITIES o TOTAL HEALTH & THE HEALTH CONTINUUM o UNDERSTANDING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN BODY AND BEHAVIOR o PERSONAL INTEGRITY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY o DISEASES AND CONDITIONS: COMMUNICABLE o DISEASES AND CONDITIONS: NON‐COMMUNICABLE UNIT 2: CONSUMER HEALTH o THE HEALTH CONSCIOUS CONSUMER o ACCESSING ACCURATE HEALTH INFORMATION o INFLUENCES ON OUR CHOICES o HEALTH CARE o NATIONAL AND GLOBAL IMPACT: THE BIG PICTURE UNIT 3: MEDICINAL PRACTICES o HISTORY OF MEDICINES o COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE o DRUG AND MEDICINE INTERACTION o ADDICTION AND RECOVERY o IMPACT OF SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE ON TOTAL HEALTH AND SOCIETY UNIT 4: FAMILY LIFE o RELATIONSHIPS & MARRIAGE o PREGNANCY, BIRTH & PARENTHOOD o TODAY’S FAMILIES o AGING AND THE ELDERLY o DEATH AND DYING CURRENT EVENTS IN HEALTH o TOPICS WILL VARY o FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF CLASS EACH DAY NOTE: Details about these assignments will be reviewed in class and/or are provided in this notebook. 4 Conestoga High School Culminating Project Proposal 2011-12 (Please print this form to fill in and submit) Student Homeroom Graduation Year Faculty Advisor Ms. Marcia Mariani Counselor Option 1- An extension of a course activity/project Option 2- Independent Study/Independent Investigation Option 3- Extended Experience via Community Partnerships/Service Option 4- Early college Option 5- Other: Entrepreneurship, Performing Arts Group, etc. Project Description (Option # 1 ): To prepare an educational tool for use in presenting health-based content learned in class and through my additional web-based research. The tool will be in the form of a photo journal or children’s book and will be presented to the age-group I have designated on the project. Project Goals: To learn how to access accurate health information for the future health of myself, my family and my peers or subordinates; To learn to develop a variety of teaching tools for use in providing information about topics related to our current and future levels of Health & Wellness; To gain insight into Healthy Communities and my part in that goal Benchmarks/Major Tasks Projected Completion Date Advisor's Initials RESEARCH October 2011 PROJECT PLANNING November 2011 GATHERING OF RESOURCES December 2011 CREATION OF PROJECT January 2012 PRESENTATION January 2012 Student's Signature Date: Parent's Signature Date: Faculty Advisor's Signature Date: Reminder: Photocopy proposal and forward a copy to Mr. Boyle. Retain original copy in your notebook. FOR FACULTY ADVISOR USE ONLY ORAL VISUAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY WRITING (Reflection paper will satisfy this requirement.) FACULTY ADVISOR'S SIGNATURE: TO THE STUDENT: Upon project completion, please attach reflection paper to this form and forward to Mr. Boyle in Room 279A, whose office will notify Student Services of your project's completion. 5 CULMINATING PROJECT REFLECTION QUESTIONS Reflect on your culminating project by answering the questions that follow in a one page typed paper. Type your answers to the questions below and attach them to your culminating project form. Take these materials to Ms. Mariani after school on the day you do your presentation. When you are finished your presentation, she will read your reflection, place her final signature on your form and send you on your final errands to deliver your finalized project forms. Reflect on your planning thought process from the beginning to the end of the project. Include specifics on your thought process from the topic and project selection phase through to the completion of the project. Express your specific thoughts on how the effort of gathering the content for the project was of both educational and personal benefit to you. Discuss the problems incurred during the project in addition to the corresponding solutions you used or plan to use in future projects.