Healthy+Me!

Time for some science!! [|Key Vocabulary Page] We started the unit off by trying to think what were the most important parts of Healthy Living. We built concept maps on the table. Then, we put together a model of healthy living. ** Body Systems Project ** After that, we did a huge project about the bodies systems! We broke into groups and looked we each looked into the following systems.
 * Respiratory
 * Digestive
 * Cardio-Vascular
 * Nervous

We took our research and turned it into a research report, but a visual and artistic one. We included the following:
 * The major parts of the system
 * How it works model and paragraph description
 * A visual life sized diagram
 * A metaphor to explain it

Here is the final product (sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, bad light in the hall!): Lastly, we did a dance and wrote a song about our system!

Click here for videos and audio recordings, and our reflections ** Fruit Project (in art class) ** When that was done, we looked at Fruit! We investigated what is in fruit and why they are good for us. We made placemats in the style of Andy Warhol prints with our research report on the back. [|Please click here to be redirected to see all of them] ** Nutrition e-Book ** Next, we tried to understand what all that stuff on the nutrition labels means. We wrote an e-Book. ** SPAFE (in PE class) ** In PE we looked at muscles and sports with Ms Otsuka. We used the following to think about different sports we played and tried and what muscles they work. **S**peed **P**ower **A**gility **F**lexibility **E**ndurance We tried Yoga! It was really hard. Here is a great reflection from one student: //I used to think Yoga was calm and relaxing, but now I think it is very painful and difficult.// We also filled out a picture of our friend, the Muscle Man after every PE class. We talked about what muscles we used that day and which of the 5 skills (SPAFE) are important for that sport. Here are some of them (there were too many to fit them all in one document!) In math class, we[| made a survey] and Craig sent it out over the internet. We got 380 responses! We used this raw data, as a way to learn about graphing. We used the data to make the following graphs. We then started to analyze this data, and came up with the following conclusion and conjecture Table: ** Diets ** A diet is not about weight loss only. Some diets are about putting on weight, or making you stronger. A diet is the food that we eat. We all have a diet. For this project, we had to research a different type of diet and then do some public speaking. We imagined we were a professional trainer and we gave advice to young athletes on what to eat and what not to eat. Here are the youtube videos of our speeches. Also, please read our reflections on how we did from our GoogleSites page. Public speaking is a difficult skill that requires a lot of practice! **Snake Diet** [|Meu's Speech and Reflection] [|Tomoyo's Speech and Reflection] [|Nico's Speech and Reflection] **Swimmers Diet** [|Koichi's Speech and Reflection] [|Hiromu's Speech and Reflection] [|Jiwon's Speech and Reflection] **Long Distance Runner Diet** [|Sho's Speech and Reflection] [|Moemi's Speech and Reflection] [|Maria's Speech and Reflection] **Ballerina Diet** [|Grace's Speech and Reflection] [|Nini's Speech and Reflection]
 * Healthy Me! Survey (in Math class) **