MS+Health

Middle School Health **Quarter 2** **Assignments** Directions: Use these questions to interview an adult who participates in regular activity. Then write a brief report on your interview. Be sure to identify what influences this person to be physically activity. 1. Do you exercise on a regular basis? How much and how often? 2. What's your favorite physical activity? 3. What other activities do you do? 4. Why do you exercise? Report
 * October 31, 2011 due November 2, 2011**

Students should write their own homework organization strategy. This should include: 1. Where they will write homework needing to be done (planner, notebook, folder, digitally, etc.). 2. Where (kitchen, bedroom, family room) and how (with skype, tv, music on or off etc.) they will do their homework. 3. Materials tub and contents. 4. How to assess if this strategy is working.
 * October 19, 2011 due October 21, 2011**

**Project** **Monday, October 24, 2011**
 * September 26, 2011** - Design a meal. Students should design a meal with their group. The meal can be a breakfast, lunch or dinner. The meal should be designed using one of the food pyramids. Students will assess each other for participation in designing, preparing and ideas relating to the meal. Students will make the meal and bring it in to class for a **FEAST** which will be on:

**Tests** Movies quiz - quiz will be open notebook on the Bill Nye movies and Recovering From Bad Eating movies.
 * October 28, 2011**

**Quarter 1**

[|Harvard Study] Click on this link to find the new food pyramid developed by the Harvard School of Public Health

[|No more pyramids] The newest USDA healthy diet guidelines are no longer in pyramid form, but rather on a plate with portions shown on the plate.

[|Other Food Pyramids] Click on this link to find other food pyramids, showing the different eating styles of other cultures than in America
 * 1) Mediterranean Diet
 * 2) Latino Diet
 * 3) Asian Diet
 * 4) Vegetarian Diet

Assignments Sept. 23 - 5 day eating journal of all food and drink consumed. This should include:
 * Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks
 * Amount of food eaten or liquid drank (examples: 1 cup orange juice; sandwich - 2 slices of turkey, 1 slice joung gouda cheese, mayonnaise, mustard, tomato, lettuce, cucumber; salad - spinach, mixed lettuce, carrots, cucumber, tomato, yogurt salad dressing)
 * Must include 2 weekend days
 * Due Friday, September 30, 2011 **

Tests  Some of you lost your test. You can download it here. **Wednesday, October 5, 2011** ** because of the week of October 3rd having MAP and ISA testing the test will be a take home test ** Test will include nutrition, different pyramid diets, what is different from the traditional pyramid and the current pyramid