Wednesday 12/20

Today we created a graphic organizer for Chapter 9, Understanding Drugs and Medicines. We read the chapter as a class and almost finished the chapter.

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Week 4: Understanding Drugs and Medicines: Last school day of 2017

Today we will spend 20 minutes reading the chapter and working on our graphic organizer together. After the 20 minutes, I would like you to finish reading the chapter and filling in the rest of the graphic organizer the way you see fit.

Then your assignment is to Answer the review questions on page 229 in a new blog post titled: "Textbook: Drugs as Medicines". Please include  a picture of your graphic organizer in the blog post along with your answers.

Here are some interesting topics to look into once you are finished. If you do look into them, make a new blog post titled "Understanding Drugs and Medicines: In-Depth questions", and write 3-5 questions that you have by comparing the new information from the websites to what you already know...

FDA Approval Process

Animal Testing Justification

Drug Production Companies (Pharmaceutical Industry) possibly being sued

Tuesday 12/19 Health

This week seems to be going by very quickly! We have a lot to do!
Here is the agenda for the day:

1. Make a new blog post titled Drug Unit Vocabulary words. Type the highlighted vocabulary words (from pages 218 to 233) and their definitions into this blog post. (15 min).

2. Get the graphic organizer for Pages 218-221. Read those pages and fill out the graphic organizer. (15 min)

3. Answer the questions on page 221#1-9 in new blog post titled Textbook: Drugs. Take a photo of your graphic organizer and put that into the post as well. (20 min)

(if you finish early, study the Circulatory System by testing yourself and re-drawing the entire system

or you can work on missing assignments...)

4. Passive/Aggressive/Assertive Skits: we will do 3 more of these (from last week...)

Playlist

I'm interested to see if this will work...
can you update this playlist?
or just see/listen to it?

https://open.spotify.com/user/slojesse/playlist/1eqPXRfnWkUQxvOSulIxGK

Fantastic Friday

Hopefully it has been for you. Please come in get your chrome book and sit down. The opening blog post topic is on the board. Please do a quick blog post and answer the question.

When you are finished with the blog post, please begin studying/practicing drawing the Nervous system.

Today we will take the nervous system diagram quiz at 2:25. You will have 10 minutes to take the test. When you are finished with the test, please work on one of the other assignments from this class quietly on your chrome book.

2:35, you will get with your next skit partner and design a skit showing passive, aggressive, and assertive styles of communication. Please just choose one situation and show all three examples.

At 2:55, we will begin the show. That’s right, you have only 20 minutes to design your next skit. I wish you the best of luck, sort of, I like it when people fail and then learn from their mistakes.

Communication Styles

Yesterday we started the skits based on Positive Self Talk, which is a good way to help boost your self esteem. It's not always easy to do on your own however, and to get good at it takes practice. To get practice, you have to have a lot of challenges. To get really good at positive self talk, you need good coaches (the people around you) and many fails to learn from.

Today you will get more challenges in which you can set yourself up for failure. I hope you fail today. It can be a great learning experience. If you see someone fail today, be there for them and encourage them.

Here is today's agenda:
1. Review and Update your blog post about your goals from yesterday. Make any changes you can think of. (5 minutes)
2. Read pages 55 and 56, get out a sheet of paper, and make a grid over the whole thing with 4 columns and 3 rows.
3. Create your own brainstorm of Table 1 on page 56, using your own responses.
4. Finish skits
5. Give your feedback to each group (each group read your feedback)
6. New blog post: "Positive Self Talk Skits": "Go Fishing" on your own for issues that came up during the creation and execution of the Skit you just did.
7. New groups for the next round of skits
8. In your new groups, the first task is to draw the nervous system on a white board as a group. This is your time to practice and clarify what you don't know...
9. The next task is to create a new skit showing a situation, passive, aggressive, and assertive communication styles based on your brainstorms.

Outdoor activities/data collection

For the past two days, we have gone out during health and math class to make up games to play with a soccer ball and keep track of the points. It has been a really fun experience to get some energy out, be loud, be competitive, and try to take notes with all of the distractions around.

To collect the data, I just printed out the attendance roster and we used as a spreadsheet. Each student kept track of all of the points. I’m ready to take this to the next level and have some data analysis be done on the data that we collected.That should be the next step.

For Wednesday’s activities, I am grading the data collection sheets on completion/effort. I’m using a 1 to 10 scale.

For Thursday’s activities, I am grading the data on completion, and time on task/making sure the game is being played. Being off and away talking with other people or delaying the game in other ways means points being taken away from you.