Course Description

The NHASA health class is a full year class that will cover the content areas of community health, consumer health, environmental health, family education, growth and development, personal health, nutrition, disease prevention, safety and substance abuse. The online course is based on the "Differentiated Health and Sexuality Education Activities Booklet" by Leslie Pettigrew and will use various types of activities such as group discussions, cooperative activities, role-play, videos, guest speakers and research projects to meet state mandates for health requirements. There will be a teacher advisor present during all class times to assist students in completing assignments. Students will meet two days a week to complete activities online and in small groups. Students will learn to access valid health information, products and services, advocate for personal, family and community health, analyze media messages, use communication skills, use decision-making skills, set goals, acquire conflict resolution skills, refusal skills, learn to manage stress and develop an appreciation for the diversity of our student body.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Hello Healthy Student Nutritionists!

I hope all is well with you!  I am in the process of sending your graded quizzes back to you via email with feedback on your answers.  It sounds like you had a very interesting last class with Kaleha and Imali's mom, wish I could have listened in!
Well, we have investigated different nutrients over the past few weeks and are nearing the end of our nutrition unit.  I would like you, for your final project, to keep track of your own diet over the next 3 days, and on next Thursday, write an analysis of what you learn. Don't worry, I will give you clear directions a bit later on how to do this.
First, you will be using the following site to set up a free account in which to input your daily food intakes for today, Friday and Saturday.  You will be clicking here to get to mypyramid.gov  Once you get to the site, you will look for:

My Pyramid Tracker, which is under "Spotlights" on the bottome row. 
Scroll down to the bottom and click "New User Registration"  (next time you will go to existing user login)
fill in the blanks and create an account and save
You will then need to fill in your personal information.  If you are unsure of anything, just make your best guess.  Save your info and go to "proceed to food intake"
Here you will be adding in all the foods you have eaten so far today.  You will just type in the name of the food and a list to choose from will come up.  Take some time today and play around with the site.  You add foods, will be asked about serving size and how many servings etc.  There are various ways to analyze your food and even places to add your physical activity, which will give you a more accurate picture of your food intake and caloric needs.
Email me if you have any problems or questions.  Setting up your account and adding your foods, along with checking out the ways to look at the data will probably take most of today's class.  You will need to be responsible and post your food intake for tomorrow and Saturday on your own time, a sort of homework.
Happy Investigating!
Margot
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