Week 2 - Monday, February 6 or Wednesday, February 8
What We’ll Cover In Class
TOPIC: What Is Wellness?
Enduring Understanding: You
are your major health care provider...everyone else is merely an advisor.
Negotiations between "you NOW" and "you FUTURE" begin now...how valuable is your
future health and well-being? What are you willing to do in order to preserve
your health?
- Major health issues of Americans
- What can YOU do to live a long and healthy life right up until death?
- Introduction to the wellness dimensions
- Wellness Wheel Assignment
- Medical Release Form Health Center Staff
Bring your fitness medical
release form to class to receive medical clearance!
Assignments for the Week
- Read and take quiz in D2L (open from
Monday,
February 6 @ 12:01 a.m. until Sunday, February 12 @ midnight). The quiz will
cover Chapter 1- An Invitation to Healthy Change and
concepts presented in class about wellness principles.
- Complete the Wellness Wheel assignment. To download another Wellness Wheel and
get the description of the dimensions go to D2L Content page.
After completing your wheel
look
at
your
diagram and write a brief summary and
analysis at least
two
pages
double spaced of
what you think
your
strengths are and
why they are strengths. Also,
analyze
where you may want/need to
put
some effort,
thought, and energy into improving these areas to have a
higher
quality of life.
Write about how you might begin to
improve those
areas.
What steps can you
take
to start? Becoming aware
of
options, talking with someone
knowledgeable, looking for guidance,
doing some things differently, practicing techniques are all kinds of things
you may want to consider.
Upload an electronic copy of your
analysis (no need to include the picture) to the
Dropbox in D2L by Monday, February 20 @
NOON)
- Start reading Chapter 13 for next week’s quiz.
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