Juicing Project

Hello everyone. Well we are the end of the juicing unit. Your last assignment is to either make up a juice recipe that you will present and share with the class or research a juicing recipe to present and share with the class. The choice is yours. Your assignment will include the following FCA's. 1) Post in your blog under my projects a copy of your juice recipe. 2) For each vegetable and/or fruit write about what it is traditionally used for in regards to your health and what each ingredient is a good source of for vitamins, minerals, etc. 3) Present your recipe to the class as well as make your juice for the class to share. 4) copy everyone’s juicing project and paste it in your “shared projects area in your blog. Your project post is due on Wednesday, 9/26.

I will assign everyone a class date to present their project to the class on Wednesday, 9/26. I will post this in your comment area in your project section.

Assignment Food Pyramid

This assignment will involve how to use the web site http://www.mypyramid.gov. This site provides the following information:

The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, an organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was established in 1994 to improve the nutrition and well-being of Americans. Toward this goal, the Center focuses its efforts on two primary objectives—

1. Advance and promote dietary guidance for all Americans, and

2. Conduct applied research and analyses in nutrition and consumer economics.

The Center's core products to support its objectives are the following:

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• MyPyramid Food Guidance System
• Healthy Eating Index
• U.S. Food Plans
• Nutrient Content of the U.S. Food Supply
• Expenditures on Children by Families

1. Your first task will be done on an individual basis. Go to : http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx and fill out the information to know the amount of each food group you need daily.Copy and paste your results in the project section of you blog. Put your posts under the heading MyPyramid.gov . Your first post will be under the heading “ My Pyramid Plan” This first activity should be posted by Friday, 9/14.

Your second task will be a group effort. I will assign you into one of five groups in class. The following groups are responsible for the following topics and information to be researched: Your group will divide up the topics to be researched. Each person will post their own work on their topic in their project area in RED PRINT. Then copy and paste your partners information in the same area in BLACK so I can tell who did what work. When finished everyone in each group should have a completed project of the section assigned to them. Each person will go and copy and paste the completed projects of each of the other 4 groups into their shared project posting area in their blog in BLACK and copy and paste their own project in the shared project section in RED. Your groups project should be completed and posted by next Thursday, 9/20/07.

Group 1: Grains

What's in the Grain Group? How much is needed? What counts as an ounce? Health benefits & nutrients Tips to help you eat whole grains

Group 2: Vegetables

What's in the Vegetable Group? How much is needed? What counts as a cup? Health benefits & nutrients Tips to help you eat vegetables

Group 3: Fruits

What's in the Fruit Group? How much is needed? What counts as a cup? Health benefits and nutrients Tips to help you eat fruits

Group 4: Milk

What's in the Milk Group? How much is needed? What counts as a cup? Health benefits and nutrients Tips for making wise choices

Group 5: Meats and Beans

What's in the Meat & Beans Group? How much is needed? What counts as an ounce? Nutrients and health implications Tips for making wise choices Vegetarian Choices

Assignment for del.icio.us account

I would like yo to add the following tags with at least 4 resources for each tag: 1) juicing benefits 2)juice fasting 3) juicing recipes 4) juicing cancer 5) juicing books with limited access

Theses should be posted in your del.icio.us account by Friday, 9/14 to share with the class on Monday 9/17.

Assignment

Set up a del.icio.us account and Flickr account and add the links to your blog page. Use the same password

http://del.icio.us/

http://www.flickr.com/

These sites will help you reseach topics and store informatiom for future use.This should be posted by Tuesday, 9/11

Missing Work ? Read Syllabus

If you are missing work or have been asked to revise work please get it done and posted. Also date all your work with the proper dates if you expect to get credit for it. Warning will be here before you know it!!!!

August, 2007

Bellows Falls Union High School
H.E. 1021: Syllabus
Health Education II

.5 Credit

Description
Health II is a semester long required course for ½ credit, taken by juniors and seniors. The Health II curriculum will cover fewer topics but in greater detail than in Health I. Examples of a few issues covered would be current health issues, abuse cases, or consumer health. We will also examine how different areas of health interact with one another. We will read books, watch videos, discuss, and write about the different issues.
Instructor
Jack Cohun
Phone 802-463-3944 ext. 242
Email jcohun@wnesu.net

Goals and Learning Objectives

The goal of this course is to allow you to develop a user-friendly portfolio of health topics and issues. These topics and issues will be researched dynamically on the Internet and shared with your peers both formally and informally. To facilitate your achievement of this goal, the following are the course learning objectives. By the end of this course you will be able to:
1.Present to the instructor a comprehensive portfolio of the covered topics and issues. This will be in either the form of a Blog or in hard copy.
2.Demonstrate dynamic research by showing documentation for the information you have gathered on a topic. This should be in the form of a bibliography and citations.
3.Demonstrate that you have shared information formally and informally. Formal sharing will be accomplished by either presenting copies of your research to your peers by letting them copy and paste from your Blog or by handing out hard copies of your report to your peers. Informal sharing will be accomplished by class discussion.
4.Demonstrate your knowledge of subject matter by doing a reflective write up on information covered in class. This can be accomplished in your Blog or in written form.

Instructional Resources
1.Internet
2.Guest Speakers
3.Peer to Peer Sharing
4.Newspapers

Assessment
1. Portfolio 30%: This will be checked by the instructor bi-weekly either by checking your blog or by you turning in the hard copy of what you have accumulated up to that point. Information should be typed, presented neatly, organized chronologically. Your own work should demonstrate both creative and critical thinking. Your own work should also demonstrate correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.
2. Reflective writing 20%: This will be checked by the instructor bi-weekly either by checking your blog or by you turning in a hard copy of your work. Information should be typed, presented neatly, organized chronologically. Your work should demonstrate both creative and critical thinking. Your work should also demonstrate correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. A reflective writing is required for each class during the two-week time frame.
3. Formal Sharing 10%: This will be checked anytime you have a report due. The grade will be based on your ability to have your information posted on your blog to be copy and pasted by your peers and/or your ability to give hard copies to peers who do not have a blog. 10 points will be deducted for every day after the assignment is due with a maximum of 10 days.
4. Informal Sharing 10%: This will be assessed by attendance and participation.
Projects 30%: These will be assigned during the semester. You will be expected to do dynamic research on the Internet and turn in a Type 3 writing. The paper will be graded based on FCA’s, which will be given to you at the time of the assignment. Your work should demonstrate both creative and critical thinking. Your work should also demonstrate correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. 10 points will be deducted for every day after the assignment is due with a maximum of 10 days.

Third Project

Your Next project will be to go to the link juicingbook.com at the health resources in the class blog. I have assigned you a fruit to research in the comment section of your blog. Your FCA’s for this project will be: 1) describe what this vegetable is traditionally used for, 2) good source for, 3) freshness test,4) important information, 5) general information, and what the 3 greatest amounts of vitamins are in that vegetable. (each vegetable will have this information).Write a type 3 paper on this vegetable and post it in your project area. This project should be posted by Sunday,9/16 so we can use it in Monday’s class. Make sure you go to each others blog and copy and paste other students projects in you shared project with peers posting area.

Second Project

Your Next project will be to go to the link juicingbook.com at the health resources in the class blog. I have assigned you a vegetable to research in the comment section of your blog. Your FCA’s for this project will be: 1) describe what this vegetable is traditionally used for, 2) good source for, 3) freshness test,4) important information, 5) general information, and what the 3 greatest amounts of vitamins are in that vegetable. (each vegetable will have this information).Write a type 3 paper on this vegetable and post it in your project area. This project should be posted by Wednesday, 9/12 so we can use it in Thursdays class. Make sure you go to each others blog and copy and paste other students projects in you shared project with peers posting area.

First Project

This will be our first big class project. Check the comment area in your project area. I will list the vitamin that I would like you to research. Use the link for vitamins in the health site resources and go to the vitamin guide section. Write a complete type 3 paper and include the following FCA’s: 1) overview, benefits, natural sources, how to use, cautions, deficiencies, overdose, side effects, interactions. 2) Look up words that you do not know. You will be presenting your project to the class.3) correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. This project should be posted in the project posting area by Tuesday 9/11. Everyone should copy and paste everyone else’s project into your project sharing posting section.

Juicing Unit

9/2/07

First assignment

Hello everyone. By now you should have set up your blog and have put links in your blog to this page as well as the school wiki site. Now we are ready to begin exploring our first unit of instruction. This unit will deal with “Juicing”. I have a couple of interesting sites that I would like you to visit. You will be doing some research at these sites and we will also use these in class as well. The sites to visit are: 1) http://www.best-juicing.com/., 2)http://www.mercola.com/nutritionplan/juicing.htm, 3)http://healing.about.com/od/juicing/Benefits_of_Natural_Juicing.htm, 4)http://books.google.com/books?id=n-qrFwMMYcYC&dq=juicing&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=3hyDkTJBW2&sig=afzcgvJWigyr3tpNDjP_D7jNdzw#PPP7,M1, 5)

http://books.google.com/books?id=xzQ7Gl8hiUYC&dq=juicing&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=pXyg216Hz_&sig=vy7SZR5HdSFBChG50ybvhiF39ZA#PPT5,M1,

Your first assignment will be to go to these sites and research this essential question: What is juicing and why would you want to have juicing be part of a healthy lifestyle? Post your response as a reflective write. Make sure you date this assignment as well as copy and paste the essential question.This should be posted by 9:00 pm Thursday, 9/6/07.
In addition to the above topic please post a type two write on our outside activity. Make sure you include at least two examples under each of the 5 components of health. This should be posted by 9:00 am, Thursday, 9/6.
If you have problems see me as soon as you can so we can keep you up to date on your assignments.