Health letter grade 8

Dear Parent/Guardian and Student,

Welcome to Health/Wellness Class. Health class will meet three times a week for sixty minutes during one of the four quarters. The students will receive their grades on their report cards at the end of the trimester in which they had health.

Topics and skills taught may include:

• Healthy individuals
• Goal/hope/dream: quilt square
• Individual health assessment triangle
• Stress management
• Cycle of use
• Brain development-review
• Decision making/risk taking
• First-aid situations/hands only CPR
• Nutrition and media influences
• Eating disorders
• Food quality and costs (financial literacy)
• Cooking

Activities may include:

• Computer Research
• Discussion
• Projects
• Games
• Role Playing
• Multimedia technology
• Cooking in the kitchen labs

If you have any questions about the Health curriculum please do not hesitate to contact me. I can be reached by email dave.nicholson@cesuvt.org or by phone 899-3711.

Respectfully,

David Nicholson, M.A.

Health/Wellness Teacher