Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Territory Games

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Ultimate Frisbee

Enduring Understandings

  • Good team players display a variety of characteristics which positively impact their team.
  • Using feedback to improve performance will build physical skills and confidence.
  • It is important to know the rules to become successful.
  • Participation leads to better understanding and eventually more enjoyment when playing sports.
  • Creating space away from the disc spreads the defense and increases scoring opportunities.
  • It is important to display sportsmanship.
  • Good technique can lead to greater success during game play.

 

Essential Questions

  • How can sportsmanship and fair play be displayed?
  • What contributes to good throwing and catching skills?
  • Why is communication important in team games?


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Substance Abuse, Addictions, and Related Behaviors

Enduring Understandings

  • Using the decision making model, enables students to make positive choices for themselves.
  • Refusal skills are necessary to resist negative peer pressure.
  • Appropriate drug use can benefit individuals while the abuse of drugs can be harmful.
  • It is important to know common reasons and the effects of drug use.
  • Drug use not only affects the individual, but also the family and community.

 

Essential Questions

  • How can I refuse negative peer pressure?
  • Why do people do drugs?
  • Who is affected by drug use?


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Personal Safety

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Bouldering and Low Organized Games

Enduring Understandings

  • Good technique can lead to greater success when Bouldering.
  • Safety procedures should be understood and demonstrated at all times.
  • Effective communication can increase individual and group/team success.
  • Good team players display a variety of characteristics which positively impact their team.
  • It is important to display sportsmanship.

 

Essential Questions

  • How can communication lead to greater success?
  • How can sportsmanship and fair play be displayed?


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Healthy Eating

Enduring Understandings

  • A healthy diet is one that is balanced, varied and in moderation.
  • A healthy diet is low is sodium, trans fats and sugar.
  • Food labels provide us with valuable information about a food product.
  • Living a healthy lifestyle requires making healthy food choices.
  • Some foods are healthier than others.
  • Each of us have internal hunger and thirst cues, these can influence our eating patterns.

 

Essential Questions

  • What’s in the food we eat?
  • What influences our food choices?
  • Why is it important to read and understand food labels?
  • How could you make your diet healthier?
  • What personal and external factors affect our food choices and routines?


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Human Development

Enduring Understandings

  • During adolescence a person experiences rapid changes emotionally, socially and physically.
  • Accepting and understanding of self and others can make relationships more positive.
  • The decision making model enables students to make effective choices for themselves.
  • Peer pressure can be both positive and negative.
  • Refusal skills are necessary to resist negative peer pressure.

 

Essential Questions

  • Why do social, emotional and physical changes occur during early adolescent years?
  • How do the male and female reproductive systems work?
  • What are the similarities and differences for each gender during puberty?
  • How can I refuse negative peer pressure?
  • How do the changes that occur during puberty affect our relationships with others?


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