Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Eileen Ferrari
Health Education
Goal Setting
High School (9-12)



-Goal Setting - Digital Vision Board-

NYS Health Standards/Skills: Planning & Goal Setting
Demonstrates the ability to apply planning and goal setting strategies and skills to enhance personal, family, and community health goals
Before project:
PG.C.1 Critically analyzes and articulates the benefits of planning & setting personal health goals
During Project:
PG.C.2 Makes a personal commitment to achieve a personal health goal
PG.C.3 Develops a personal health goal and a plan to achieve it
PG.C.4 Analyzes & develops strategies to overcome barriers to achieving the personal health goal
PG.C.5 Implements the plan and adjusts plan as needed to achieve the personal health goal
PG.C.6 Analyzes the impact of decisions on the personal health goal
PG.C.7 Identifies personal support systems and explains their importance in achieving the personal health goal
After Project:
PG.C.8 Assesses, reflects on and adjusts the plan to maintain and enhance personal health and safety, as needed

NETS:
  1.  Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop     innovative products and processes using technology (application: a & b)
  1.  Digital Citizenship
                                Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology
                                and practice legal and ethical behavior (application: a, b & c)
  1. Technology Operations and Concepts
                                Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems,
                                and operations (application: a, b & d)

Overview:
Using iMovie, you will plan and create a digital vision board for yourself.  You will be sharing your personal short-term and long-term goals - what you hope to achieve now and in the future.  You will state the barriers to these goals in your life (self, family, friends, environment, etc: what we learned from class previously).  You will then break down at least 1 short-term goal and set a plan on how to will go about achieving it.

After the due date, I want you to watch your digital vision board over the next 2 weeks and start taking steps to reach your short-term goal (and long-term goals too!)  You may watch it when you first wake up, during the day or right before you go to bed - whichever works best for you!  I recommend that you watch it every day. 

You will not be required to share this project with the class.  I want you to truly create a project that will benefit you and allow you to think about your personal goals in life.  As we talked about in class, stating your TRUE life goals to others can be scary.  However, we also know that this can be a great tool in helping you to reach these goals!  So, if you decide, you may upload your project onto our class page for others to view and I will give you an addition 5 bonus points.

After this project, we will do a reflection activity and learn about assessing and re-adjusting goals as needed.

Requirements:
-2-4 minutes in length
-Includes music of choice (does not have to play throughout the entire movie)
-Includes your personal voice recording in ANY way you want using the application through iMovie
                EXAMPLES:
                *To introduce yourself
                *Narrate throughout the movie
                *Talk about 1 or more of your barriers
                *Stating your goals
-State at least 3 “affirmations” or positive messages for yourself in reaching your goals throughout the movie (this can also take the form of quotes that inspire you)
An overview of what you want in your life?  (can be anything from your attitude to what you need and want from others
                *If you include material things: limit of 2
-Includes at least 2 short-term goals
-Includes at least 3 long-term goals

THEN PICK 1 SHORT-TERM GOAL TO FOCUS ON:  Include...
-Which goal you chose
-Barriers to goals:  What is stopping/preventing you from achieving this goal?
                *Must include SELF barriers
-Overcoming these barriers:  What or who will help you?
                *Do you need to learn a skill or obtain certain knowledge?
                *Do you need to change your attitude / views of yourself?
                *Do you need to surround yourself by supportive people?
-Support systems: Identify at least 3 specific people/groups who you can turn to when you need support or people who will help you reach your goals.
-Reaching your goal plan
                *What daily/weekly steps will you take?
                *Do you need physical materials?  Do you need the help of someone else?
                *What will you use to help you reach these goals within a few weeks


SEE RUBRIC FOR HOW YOU WILL BE GRADED


-CREATIVITY: Use sound effects, transitions, personal pictures, pictures from the internet, video recording of yourself and/or others - ANYTHING you want!  Make your project unique and a representation of YOU!


Ms. Ferrari - Health Education
Digital Vision Board Rubric


iMovie Basics (15 points)

____ / 5       Length (2-4 min.)
____ / 5       Music
____ / 5       Voice Recording

iMovie Content (45 points)

____ / 6       Affirmations / Positive Messages                  1        2        3
____ / 5       Overview:  What you want in your life (multiple areas of life)
____ / 4       Identification of Short-term Goals
                             1.
                             2.
____ / 6       Identification of Long-term Goals
                             1.
                             2.
                             3.
____ / 2       Identification of Focus Goal: _____________________________
____ / 5       Barriers
                             Self-Barrier(s):
                             Other(s):
____ / 6       Overcoming Barriers
                             -
                             -
____ / 3       Support Systems - Identify 3
                             1.
                             2.
                             3.
____ / 8       Goal Plan - Steps you will take to reach your goal

iMovie Creativity & Technique (40 points)

____ / 5       Appropriate content use
____ / 8       Visuals (Color/ Pictures / Fonts /Correct Spelling)
____ / 5       Flow (Smooth & Consistent)
____ / 3       Transitions (Appropriate & creative in choice / Timing is good)
____ / 4       Sound (Appropriate / Dialogue easy to hear / Music enhances video)
____ /15      Creativity (Innovation / Original Ideas / Uniqueness)


TOTAL:
____ / 100                      Additional Comments:  

Door Scene Final Project

20 % Time Reflection

When Dr. Penny told us that we should do something that we are interested in / passionate about for our 20% time project, I knew that I wanted to do something with cooking.  This has been a recent passion of mine and started when I was trying to eat healthier.  I found it very difficult to eat all the same foods as my family & wanted to eat healthier.  I also know how important healthy eating is to me - especially since I plan on being a Health Teacher.  I want to be a role model & practice what I preach.  

I decided to start a website where I would post healthy recipes.  I plan on linking this website to my future "Teacher Page" so students can view it as well.  I originally was going to do a spin-off of an idea from Dr. Penny on a lesson plan for students and healthy cooking.  I decided to change that idea into something else, but still plan on using it in the future for sure!  (Something like a cooking show where students break up into groups, plan & cook a healthy meal - all while incorporating healthy fats, carbs and protein).  Then the students would film the show- there are so many ways to be creative with this one.

I had a lot of fun cooking - and most of my time was doing that & posting the recipes on the website.  If anyone even looks at this (probably not many - I could def. own that shirt "Nobody Reads My Blog" that Dr. Penny joked about previously)...you NEED to make...

The Soy Glazed Salmon Recipes
Yummy Honey Chicken
Avocado Feta Salsa
Crock-Pot Chicken Meat

The website can be found at: http://ferrarieats.weebly.com/

Here are just some examples of things I made.



 

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Reflections: Final Door Scene 4

I enjoyed putting our own touch into the final step of the door scene project - it's nice to see all the different ways you can mold something with a personal touch - and everyone's is so different!  This project was fun in each step - my group made me laugh a lot & I can see how students would enjoy it as well.

I am a big fan of iMovie and have used this program to make my cousin a birthday card (using the "adventure" trailor) - which I will not share because there are a few inside jokes in there & everyone may think I'm weird.  I also have made 3 videos for another grad class - one being an introduction to a presentation on the importance of implementing PE & Health into the classroom.  This one is much more basic than the others I've created - but wanted to post it up to show that I've been using what we are learning in our class!  

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

"MOUSE PARTY" - tech for a Health classroom




I wanted to share a cool website that has an activity that you can use on a smart board.  For the other 2 Health Educators out there, this is a great High School activity - I've used it during my student teaching and the students seemed to really like it.  For everyone else, it's still kinda cool to look @!  

This activity shows the effects of different drugs on the brain.  They use mice for the idea - and you can use the smart board to drag a mouse into a chair - which then shows an animation of each particular drugs effects.  The animation shows what happens in the synapse and which neurotransmitters - such as dopamine and serotonin- are affected and HOW they are affected.  This in itself is difficult to understand - this does a great job of explaining why a user feels a "high" with the 7 different drugs they use.

They use COCAINE, LSD, ALCOHOL, METH, ECSTASY, MARIJUANA, and HEROIN.

It's kind of cool to have the students guess which drug they think the mouse is using before you drag them into the chair - each mouse shows a behavior that is usually seen when someone takes that particular drug (the mouse on METH is scratching itself, the mouse on ECSTASY is kind of dancing b/c it's considered a "club drug," etc.)