Women's Wellness Class Assignment Dec. 18th

Greetings Ladies!  Happy Thursday.  I am sick today, therefore you have the opportunity to earn double credit if you complete the assignment and turn it in to Indra.  Use this time to review for retest on the female sexual anatomy tomorrow. 

Go to each website, and write a half of a page of information in your own words about what you learned/studied.  Draw pictures as well.

1.  pelvic inflammatory disease

2.  female anatomy

3. Period

4. female reproductive system

5. Menstruation

Do your best.  Write in your own words.  Learn, and take good notes because you never know when you will be able to use them again. I will see you all in class tomorrow...Nicole 

Yoga Class

YOGA CLASS assignment Dec. 18th

Greetings Yogis. Happy Thursday to each of you. I hope this blog is finding you with a smile on your face and in your heart. I am sick today. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to earn double credit if you complete the assignment. Take this opportunity to learn and improve your yoga class.

Creating your own yoga practice. Today you will create your own yoga practice. You must write everything down on paper and turn it into Mary the librarian. Follow all of the directions, learn, and do your best work.

1. Go to the following websites and learn about yoga. Watch the videos, read, and find information for you to use in your own practice.

Yoga About

Yoga Teens

Yoga video

Yoga Journal

2. Create your own yoga practice with the following parts. Imagine you are the teacher and you are teaching a class.

a. What is yoga? Give a description. What are the different kinds?

b. What are the benefits of yoga? What do you hope to gain from your practice?

c. What will your mantra be?

e. How will you open the class?

f. What music will you play? (bring in a cd for extra credit and make-up work.)

g. What breathing practice will you do?

h. What will your warm up be?

i. What poses will you have in your practice? Write 10 poses...english name and sandscript name of the pose. What are the benefits of each pose? Write down the verbal directions you will give to the class for each pose. For example: Mountain Pose: "Stand up straight with feet hip width apart under your body. Abdomen is tucked in, pelvis is tucked under, shoulders back and down, hands to your side, eyes face forward chin is parallel with the floor, feet and toes are spread out with weight balanced evenly on all parts of the feet. " Draw a picture of the pose, and tell its benefits.

j. What will your meditation be?

h. What will your focus be? example: trust. What will you read to the class to inspire them?

Do your best. This will be the rough draft for a final project at the end of the cycle. I will see you all tomorrow dressed out and ready to practice Yoga. Namaste ...Nicole

Assignment #1 Cycle 3

Sexual Internal and External Anatomy

1.  Get a classmates anatomy notes that you wrote a peer review about.   Blog to that person about what you learned from her notes use the Peer Review Guidelines that we have been working on in class.   I read (heard), I noticed, and I wondered?

2.  Go to the teen health website.  You can get to it from my blog.  Read the Female Anatomy Article.  Draw and label a picture of each part of the female reproductive system.  Describe each labeled term in ONE sentence.

3.  Read the article and blog about three new vocabulary words you learned from reading the article.  Use the Peer Review Guidelines to review the article.  

Homework #1

Comment on classmates blog using the Peer Review guidelines

Go to a person's blog in the class that you have not looked at yet.  Use the Peer Review Guidelines to comment on that person's blog.  

Complete this assignment based on the notes and class activities from Mon. Dec. 8th.  If you were not here on Mon. the Peer Review Guidelines link can be found in assignment four.  

Check your most popular email to make sure that you are allowing the comments to go through on your blog.  

Assignment #5

Web Review

1. Today you will look at the lower right hand column of my wellness blog for the words Wellness Websites for Students.  Below those words you will see a list of websites.  Click on each website for two minutes to preview it.  Choose two-four of the websites that you would like to explore further.  
   
2. Complete the Website Profiler graphic organizer for each website.  Use the HOW TO READ A WEB ADDRESS site to help you answer the Point of View part of the graphic organizer.  
   
3. While you are evaluating and learning from the websites, you are looking for information about  

ASTHMA 

DIABETES 

STUDENT CHOICE (whatever you find interesting on the website.)

4.  Take 1-3 quizes on the websites

5.  Play 1-3 games

6.  Blog about what you learned in a new post.  Use your website profiler as a guide.  Be sure to include information about Asthma, Diabetes, and Student Choice.  Give a review of the websites you chose to complete the Website Profiler graphic organizers for. Tell your readers about the quizes you took, and the games you played.  Remember to use proper written English.

7.  Complete Cause and Effect graphic organizer given to you by nicole.

8.  Go back to assignment # 4 and click on the peer review website.

Assignment #4

Post a message on classmates blogs.

1. Complete Assignments 1-3
2. Learn how to post a message from Ted and Nicole.
3. Choose three blogs to view from your peers in the class. Pick the name of one person you know really well, and two other people that you do not know so well.
4. Do a peer review of the persons blog and post a comment on it. Go to Nicole's blog and click on the person's name to read what she has been writing.

Peer Review/ Commenting Guidelines

peer review website click here to learn how to peer review.

1. Tell the blogger the most interesting thing you learned from reading the blog.
2. Are you interested in reading the book or magazine that the blogger wrote about.
3. Write one or more questions to the blogger about what she wrote.
4. Tell the blogger what you would like to see on her blog.

Assignment #3 World Aids Day

1. Look for your name on the blog. If it is not there, check with Nicole.

2. Help someone who was not here on Tues. to set up her blog.

3. Complete and Edit Assignment #2. Check to make sure you wrote in complete sentences, proper english (not texting or email writing). Check punctuation and grammer.

4. Complete the world Aids Day assignment.



World Aids Day December 1st
World Aids Day Website

Blog about what you learned from the website.
Anwer the following questions
1. What does HIV and AIDS stand for?
2. List all of the ways that HIV is transmitted.
3. What action can you take to prevent the spread of HIV AIDS?
4. Choose one of the fact sheets and share the infrormation that you learned from it on your blog.
5. Share this blog with a friend, or a relative to educate him or her about the HIV epedemic