Mrs. Anzora

What’s Happening in Health Class

Welcome! Check out the interesting stuff that’s happening in health class. As of the last day of March, we’re just finishing up learning about stress management. Students learned some definitions to help them in their conversations about stress, brainstormed healthy stress management techniques, and created advertisements for the healthy stress management technique of their choice. They’ve also worked in groups to learn more about stress and illness and how their personality type can influence how they handle stress. We’ve talked a lot about how any stressor can cause either distress (”bad” stress) or eustress (”good” stress) or both, and how the difference is in the person and how he/she manages his/her stress.

The next topic we’ll be learning about is nutrition- students will learn about the food guide pyramid, how to read food labels, and what nutrients are and why we need them- among other things. After gaining a basic understanding of the food guide pyramid, students will have a choice of which assignments they’d like to do to show their learning of the nutrition concepts.

Students are also still working on tracking their goals- back at the end of February we all created SMART goals- goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Oriented- centered around improving an aspect of our health in some way. We outlined our plans using iCal on our laptops, and we’ve been tracking the progress toward our goals on there, too (Mrs. Anzora included… and there’s nothing better to keep you motivated than to know that roughly 140 people will be checking up on you). We update our progress in the first few minutes of every class, and our goal progress was self-evaluated and teacher-evaluated on March 13 and 14. The next “goal check-in” date is April 10 and 11. There is a third goal check-in date on May 1 and 2, and the project officially “ends” on May 9th. Students will be writing reflection papers about their experience in class after that date, and listing strategies for continuing to work on their goal when they know that Mrs. Anzora won’t be checking up on them (ditto for Mrs. Anzora… she’ll be the first to tell you that if she’s going to exceed her goal of walking 10,000 steps a day, she’s got to be held accountable to someone).

As always- if you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me.

Mrs. Anzora

Past Parent Updates
parentnotefeb08.pdf

Need help formatting your Current Event? Download the format sheet, and you can also use this fill-in-the-blank template to help you organize your thoughts.
CE Format
CE Fill In The Blanks Template
CE Grading Rubric

Personality Type
Have you taken the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory in class yet? If you’d like to give it to a family member or friend, click here to get the test and scoring sheet. Use what you learned in class to help someone else discover their personality type.
Myers Briggs Personality Type Inventory

All About Me Project
Due Dates:
Health 4, 5, and 6- project due Monday, December 10th
Health 1, 2, and 3- project due Tuesday, December 11th

Need another copy of the All About Me Project rubric? Download it here.
All About Me Project Grading Rubric
Need to see an example of what a slideshow looks like?
All About Me Slideshow Example
(this is what yours will look like when you print it out to turn it in)

AIDS Awareness Week at Lincoln Middle December 3rd-7th
HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet

Stress Management

Stress Mgt. Technique Advertisement Rubric
stressadgradingrubric.pdf

Stress and Illness Questions
stressillnessqs.pdf

Type A/Type B Personality Test
typeatypebextracreditonlinetest.pdf