We are going strong and doing great! We finished our vocabulary puzzle and there will be a vocab quiz on Monday Oct. 19. We will start our business cards on Friday and I will post an electronic copy of this activity on this blog. We also will start our article reviews this week and your first one is due next Friday Oct. 23 on stress. I will also post the rubric on this blog for you to refer to. I will have hard copies of the rubric in my room if needed.
Download Article review rev. 09-10
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To start Wednesday Sept. 30 is the last day I will be accepting any missing assignments! I have been telling you this for 2 weeks now and we are in the final moments. Last Friday I gave out deficiencies, those are due back today or I will be calling home. Monday we will finish SupeSize Me. You are responsible for the journal we have been keeping about Morgan's McDiet. You will need to write a summary that will be 2 paragraphs and include the question...How can fast food be healthy? Tuesday we will be looking at a resource on nutrition which is www.mypyramid.gov. Wedneday we will start our quick unit on HGD. We will finish the nine weeks with CPR. You will have the opportunity to be certified if you complete the written test with an 80 or above. Once you have passed the written portion I will allow you to start practicing on the manikins. We have 2 articles review left. This week I expect to see your fast food article review and next week I will be looking for your swine flu article by Thursday Oct. 8.
GET THOSE PROGRESS REPORTS SIGNED AND RETURNED TO ME BY FRIDAY!!!!!
We will complete our drug chart on Thursday allowing us time to review on Friday. Your test over this unit on Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs is set for Monday 9/21/ After the test we will start into our next unit which will be a journaling nutrition project that will include the movie Supersize Me.
DUE DATES ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR!
Everyone needs to have their progress reports signed and bring them back by Friday!
TESTING WEEK! Please eat a good breakfast and get enough rest! You will be having connections in the middle of the day while testing is going on. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. We will be starting an Energy Drink Quest in the computer lab on Wednesday. You can access this assignment from home using TRACKSTAR. You can go to the Palmer website, click media center, click teacher resources and then click Trackstar. It will ask you for a track number and you can type in 391544. Answer the questions that are listed with each website I want you to visit. You can write your answers on a seperate sheet of paper. We will be in the lab for 2 days to finish this assignment. You have an article review due Friday on energy drinks!
Please check pinnacle! Some of you are missing a lot of assignments! Progress reports go home next week!
Quiz over vocabulary from crossword and respiratory diagram Thursday!
Well we are off to another new week. We will be continuing with alcohol, tobacco and drugs. Remember you have an article review on this topic due Sept. 4! In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds. Monday we will continue and finish Secrets Through the Smoke. Tuesday - Wednesday we will participate in a breathing activity concerning our respiratory system and begin some concept maps on alcohol and drugs. Thursday you have a quiz over the vocabulary we did last week and the respiratory diagram. We will begin discussing steroids and energy drinks to round out the week.
Items Due this week:
Aricle Review on ATOD...Sept.4
Quiz vocab and respiratory...Sept 3
Concept Maps on ATOD...Sept 2
Can you believe it is week 3 already? This week we will need to take the post test for our personal health unit as well as our pre test for the ATOD unit. ATOD stands for Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs. We will start will a vocab crossword. I do not have this worksheet in electronic form so please see me if you do not receive one in class or you are absent when I hand them out. Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries. This week we will be looking into several different types of drugs and it will be an interesting unit. I will post any copies of classwork that I have in electronic form as soon as they are assigned.
