S+Mowatt+Nicholas

Office Phone: Office Hours:** =Summary of Unit= =This unit is going to focus on the students comprehension of concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. The unit will also be dealing with the analysis of the interrelationship of the physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social health aspects. Students are going to master the understandings of promoting health and preventing disease. They will also master the understanding that physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social health are all interdependent to one another. Lastly, they will master the understanding that knowing and understanding yourself is very important when trying to improve an individuals overall health. Some of the questions that will be considered within this unit: How can promoting health and preventing disease enhance my well-being? How are physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social aspects of health interdependent to one another? Why is it important to understand yourself when trying to improve you overall health? Students will know health terminology, definitions, and critical details that includes the five aspects of health. By the end of this unit students will be able to describe concepts related to health promotion, make sense of health that enhances their well-being, create healthy habits that prevent disease, analyze the interrelationship of physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social health, be open to living healthy lifestyles, and recognize unhealthy lifestyle choices. =
 * Teacher:** Mr. Nicholas Mowatt
 * Office:
 * E-mail:** nicholas.mowatt@maine.edu

=Establish Goals= Maine Learning Results: Health Education and Physical Education- A. Health Concepts A2. Dimensions of Health Grades 9-12 Health Students comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. Students analyze the interrelationship of physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social health.

=Students will understand that= • promoting health and preventing disease enhances their well-being. • physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social health are all interdependent to one another. • knowing and understanding yourself is very important when trying to improve an individuals overall health.

=Essential Questions= • How can promoting health and preventing disease enhance my well-being? • How are the physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social aspects of health interdependent to one another? • Why is it important to understand yourself when trying to improve your overall health?

=Students will know= • Terminology: disease, nutrition, exercise, stress, relaxation, spiritual health, fitness, water, environment, community, and pollution. • Definitions: Physical health, mental/intellectual health, emotional health, and social health. •Critical details: The five aspects of health; emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and social.

=Students will be able to= • describe concepts related to health promotion. • make sense of health that enhances their well-being. • create healthy habits that prevent disease. • analyze the interrelationship of physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social health. • be open to living healthy lifestyles. • recognize unhealthy lifestyle choices.

**Performance Task Overview** As a professional health researcher working for the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention you are working hard to try and recieve a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. You are one of five team members researching a current and very serious health epidemic. Each one of you specializes in one of the five aspects of health. You are all working together in order to convince the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that your epidemic is far most deserving of the grant money than that of the other epidemics that will be presented by other professional researchers. You will need to have solid facts and positive solutions presented to the Department in order to really win their support. You also need to be sure that the Department is aware of the problem and what is currently being done to slow this devastating epidemic. You have dedicated the last decade full of time and energy into your research and it is now riding on this one moment and opportunity. Be sure to create a great product to present for the Department because it is not just your job at stake, but thousands upon thousands of human lives are depending on your performance. =Expectations= Students that have missed a class due to illness, a family emergency, or any other reason must communicate with me a plan that will allow the student ample time to get caught up on the material that was missed. I expect all students to participate in class discussions and become engaged in the material that is being covered. No form of plagiarism is acceptable in my class. I want students to communicate to me adaptations or changes that can be made in order for them to become successful in becoming engaged with the material. I expect all of my students to work hard and push themselves to limits that they did not imagine possible. I also expect all of my students to show up prepared for class because I will make a point to show up prepared for class each and everyday. I expect my students to respect one another and themselves. I expect a lot out of each and every one of my students because I expect that to be their expectation of me.

=Benchmarks= Students will be assessed by completing the following assignments: =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).
 * Participation/Engagement:** Students are expected to participate in class activities. Worth- 30pts.
 * Essay:** Students will write an essay describing health as a whole. Worth- 100pts.
 * Collage:** Students will make a collage that represents health as a whole. Worth- 80pts.
 * Inspiration:** Students will work with Inspiration to create a visual of health as a whole. Worth- 50pts.
 * Story:** Students will write a story that helps to make sense of health. Worth- 100pts.
 * Comic Life:** Students are expected to transpose their story to Comic Life. Worth- 50pts.
 * Journal:** Students will journal that deals with analyzing their personal health. Worth- 25pts.
 * Blog entries with hyperlinks:** Students will transfer their journal to their blogs with hyperlinks throughout. Worth- 30pts.
 * Newscast:** Students will create a newscast on a current epidemic. Worth- 100pts.
 * iMovie:** Students newscast will then be put to iMovie. Worth 100pts.
 * Brochure:** Students will create a brochure on healthy habits. Worth- 60pts.
 * Powerpoint:** Students will then take their brochures and create a powerpoint presentation. Worth- 30pts.
 * Journal:** Students will journal about living a healthy lifestyle. Worth- 30pts.
 * Posts on the class Wiki:** Students will then post that journal onto the class wiki with hyperlinks. Worth- 20pts.