Course Syllabus
_____Course Description
Health is a one-trimester course required for graduation and generally taken during the ninth-grade year. This class is a culmination of the study of wellness and health facts, concepts, and attitudes covered in grades K-8. Topics presented during this class include physical, mental/emotional, and social health. Students are active participants in acquiring life long skills preparing them for healthy lifestyles by utilizing the decision-making process to plan life long strategies.
_____Materials
You need to have writing utensil, workbook and charged computer every day.
_____Course Units
- Wellness: Exploring the overall multi-dimensional aspects of health.
- Social Emotional: Connections between the relationships of the community, family, peers and individual emotional well-being.
- Nutrition: Evaluating the foods we eat, why we eat, what we should be eating, and how food affects our body/mind.
- Substance Use and Abuse: Categorization and effects of substances, addiction and recovery, legal ramifications, and how effects on family and community.
- Sexual Health: Understanding reproductive systems, pregnancy, gender, healthy/unhealthy relationships, STDs, and contraception.
- CPR: Compression only CPR and AED use training.
_____Grading
| Assessments—40% | Leadership—15% | Assignments—45% |
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“Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.”
Units may include: workbook, leadership, weekly assignments/notes, and assessments.
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A A- B+ B B- C+ |
94-100 90-93.99 87-89.99 84-86.99 80-83.99 77-79.99 |
4.0 3.7 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.3 |
C C- D+ D F |
74-76.99 70-73.99 64-69.99 60-63.99 0-59.99 |
2.0 1.7 1.3 1.0 0.0 |
_____Classroom Expectations
The health classroom is a professional environment. Students will be responsible for developing and maintaining good work/study habits which are conductive to a pleasant and business-like learning environment for the enjoyment and benefit of all.
* Phones should be put away at all times
* Be on time an participate fully
* Use professional language
* Leave an orderly, clean work area
* Be respectful
* Leave food and drink outside the class or on the counter
* Sit in your assigned seat
_____Classroom Rules
- School rules: If it is a school rule, it is a classroom rule. Please refer to the student handbook if there are any questions.
- Responsibility: You are responsible for your everyday supplies: books, notebook, paper, pens and pencils. You are also responsible for all assignments in health class. Attendance and punctuality are essential for success and are your responsibility. If you do have to miss a day, you are responsible for your missed work within five school days.
- Respect: Treat everyone with respect including the classroom, classmates, substitutes and staff.
_____Consequences
1. Verbal Warning
2. Student Conversation
3. Phone Call Home
4. Office Referral (major offenses)
______Tardy Policy
A student is tardy when they are not in their seat when the bell rings. All tardies will be recorded in Skyward for administrative follow up.
____Hall Passes
Students need to be in class in order to learn. Even though Renton High School is a large school, there is plenty of time to get from one side of campus to another without being late. Use your 5 minutes between classes and lunch wisely. Hall passes will be restricted based on teacher discretion. Students are also not permitted to leave the classroom during the first and last 10 minutes of class.
_____What if I am absent?
It is up to the student to make up work that was assigned when absent. Canvas will be used in health for daily work assigned. Assignments will be in your workbook or posted on Canvas. If you are absent when an assignment/group project is assigned, you will be required to complete the work individually.
_____Late Work
Students will receive an adequate amount of time to complete assignments. Anything turned in past the due date will be considered late. All late work will have a 10% deduction each day.
_____What if I'm Absent?
It is up to the student to make up work that was assigned when absent. Canvas will be used in health for daily work assigned. Assignments will be in your workbook or posted on Canvas. If you are absent when an assignment/group project is assigned, you will be required to complete the work individually.
_____Redoing Assignments
Students will have one week to redo and resubmit an assignment once it is graded. Students are encouraged to redo any assignment lower than a C average.
_____Class Success
Project Resource Handbook: Students will receive a project resource handbook that will be used to help students complete in-class projects.
Leadership Development: Students will complete a trimester long “A Better You” project and will do weekly check-ins with peers to complete this project. Presentations will be at the end of the trimester.
Note-taking: Note-taking is an important skill to master in order to increase content knowledge. Notes and reflections will be submitted and graded. In health, students may be allowed to use notes on some assessments.
Handouts/Workbooks: Copies will be made for each student. If you lose yours, make arrangements with your teacher to make up the work.
Technology: The following technology will help you be successful.
- Remind—Your teacher has a remind account. This will help you remember when assignments are due and give you quick access to messaging your teacher for class-related needs.
- Quizlet—You will need to sign up for a Quizlet account through Canvas. You will need to use your school email to sign up.
- Canvas—You will find a class calendar, due dates, links to homework, homework videos/assignments, work drop box, and contact form. Much of health work will be turned in on Canvas.
- OneNote—Your teacher may use OneNote for students to take and submit class notes.
_____Academic Honesty/Cheating
Part of character education is integrity. Academic dishonesty occurs when students obtain or assist others in obtaining credit for work which is not their own. The consequence for this is no credit for the assignment. Each student is expected to perform the work assigned and resist peer pressure to:
* Copy or duplicate assignments that will be turned in as your own.
* Exchange assignments electronically and submitting them as yours
* Exchange answers with others (giving or receiving) during an assignment or assessment, unless it is group work
* Allow another student to copy your homework, assignment, or assessment
* Submit material written or designed by someone else without giving the author/artist name and or source (plagiarizing, or submitting work created by family, friends or tutors)
* Take credit for group work, when little or no contribution was made.
Health Syllabus
Family & Consumer Sciences Department
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” Buddha
STUDENTS: I have read this classroom syllabus and understand the rules, assignments, consequences, and expectations. If I have any questions, comments or concerns I will ask my health teacher for assistance.
A copy of this syllabus is on Canvas for reference.
Student Signature__________________________________________Date__________________________
Student Printed Name ____________________________________________________________________
PARENT/GUARDIAN: My Student has discussed the syllabus with me. I understand and will support you, your class, and your rules. If I have any questions I will call the health teacher at Renton High School.
Signature_________________________________________________________ Date__________________
Printed Name ___________________________________________________________________________
Phone _________________________________________________________________________________
Email _________________________________________________________________________________
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