Introduction
Do you have a balanced health triangle?  Or is one side shorter than the other two?  Only you can make the right choices for a healthier life.  Read on to find out what it takes to live a longer, healthier you!  Let's go!
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The Task
In this WebQuest you will do several activities.  These activities will cover the 3 important issues of health,  your mental, physical and social health.  You will find out how well you are taking care of yourself and ways to improve on your well being.  Do you know what it is that you need to do?  Keep reading!

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1. Day 1-Today you will start learning about your physical health.  Physical health includes total care of your body through exercise, good hygiene, and nutrition.  First, let's find out how healthy you are.  Complete the Health Survey located in the folder. Just answer yes or no to each question.  Total up the number of yes answers for each category. When you are done, draw a picture of your triangle.  Did you have any sides longer than the others?  Write 3-5 sentences about your triangle. If you need help, look on the backside of your Health survey.  There are 2 examples, one balanced and one unbalanced.  There are also sentences about each triangle to help guide you.  In addition to the survey and triangle drawing, you will need to write down everything you eat starting from this morning and continue until tomorrow at breakfast.  Bring this to class tomorrow.

1. Day 2-Internet Work.  Go into Food Pyramid and learn important facts on nutrition.  Print a copy of a word search about vitamins and complete.  Pick one, two or three.  With a partner, help each other count how many servings of each food you ate.  Using the graph paper located in the basket, fill out the number of servings of each food and color in the appropriate amount of squares. An example is located beside the basket. Write 5-10 sentences explaining how well you did eating the right amount of each food group and what you need to improve your eating habits.

1. Day 3-Today you will study about the importance of mental health.  Mental health is your ability to like yourself and to accept yourself as who you are.  You need to go into Who I Am Collage and read and complete the activity.  You have 2 class days to complete this assignment. 

1. Day 4-The last part of health, is your social health.  This is your ability to get along with the people around you. Read the following article on friends.  One paper,  answer the following questions: 1).  What do I like in a friend?  2).  What do I not like?  3).  Why do my friends like me?  4).  What is one thing I wish I could change about myself?  5).  What are the things I like to do with my friends?  6).  When we argue, how do we solve the problem?  Read Who's In The Bag and follow the directions as written.

1. Day 5-Prepare and give a 5-8 minute presentation on yourself.  Cover the  following:  1).  Health Survey and triangle, 2).  Your eating habits, 3).  Show and discuss your collage, 4).  Discuss your paper on friends and 5).  Discuss the items you brought in.

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You will be evaluated on each day.  You will need to follow the directions carefully.  If you complete each task as directed, you will be successful in this unit. 

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
DAY 1 -Health Survey -triangle drawing -3 to 5 sentence	Tasks      started but     nothing completed	1 of the 3 tasks completed	2 of the 3 tasks completed	All tasks completed on time
DAY 2 -word search -chart on food -5 to 10 sentences	Tasks started but nothing completed	1 of the 3 tasks completed	2 of the 3 tasks completed	All tasks completed on time
DAY 3 -Who I Am collage	Only 3-5 pictures included in collage	6-9 pictures included in collage	10-15 pictures included in collage	16 or more pictures included in collage
DAY 4 -friends paper -ten items	Tasks started but not completed	All questions answered but no items	All questions answered but less than 10 items	All questions answered and 10 or more items
DAY 5 -presentation -5 to 8 minutes -all items	Presentation less than 3 min. and/or 1-2 items covered	Presentation less than 5 min. and/or 3 items covered	Presentation 5 min. and/or 4 items covered	Presentation 5-8 min. with all  5 items covered

As you can see, it is extremely important to take care of all three aspects or sides of your health triangle.  If you have a lop-sided triangle your health will suffer.  What other things can you do to improve your health?  Stay physically active, eat well, get enough sleep, and don't forget about the emotional and social you.  For extra credit, surf the web and find additional websites on your health.  Complete a project of your choosing or we can brainstorm together.

I would like to give credit to the following websites:
http://www.freshstarts.com/VitaminsCoolTools/Search01.htm
http://www.freshstarts.com/VitaminsCoolTools/Search02.htm
http://www.freshstarts.com/VitaminsCoolTools/Search03.htm
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Mental_Health/MEH0006.html
http://fscnl.fsci.umn,edu/nutrexp/pyrami~1.htm
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeliing/friend/about_friends_p2.html
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Mental_Health/MEH0004.html
 
 

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