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This project requires students to do a current self-assessment of their overall health, including their physical, mental/emotional, and social health. Taking their current health status into consideration, students will critique their triangle and note where improvements can be made to create a healthy balance. This guide should reflect the Health Triangle and include goals, plans, and reflections for the future on those plans. This assignment should include a written, in essay form, portion as well as a "triangle" visual. The visual should represent YOU, it may have words, pictures, etc to demonstrate your health. Either present, future or both. *See detailed handout on the project.

Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases (Health: 6-8) This course will help you to find answers to questions about the causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention for both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Students will choose a disease (communicable or noncommunicable) to be researched from Internet resources. The information would then be presented using Microsoft PowerPoint. This PowerPoint presentation will be shared with your classmates. Weeks 1 and 2 Student Expectations: 1.Identify types of germs and the ways that germs are spread – week 1. 2.Explain how the body defends itself against communicable diseases- week 1. 3.Describe the causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention for common communicable and non-communicable diseases-week 1 & week 2. 4.Produce a presentation on a disease chosen using Microsoft PowerPoint – week 2. Students will investigate the causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention for both communicable and noncommunicable diseases.

Create a one page flyer describing a mental illness from one of the following categories: anxiety disorders, mood disorders,eating disorders, personality disorders, Conduct disorder or schizophrenia.

Create a newsletter about the effects of stress on health.

Students were to research a cancer and present findings in prezi, powerpoint or poster.

The students will work with a partner to put together a powerPoint or pamphlet to share with the class. The project will contain relevant information directly related to the drug researched.

Class introduction activity.

Class introduction activity.

The students will work on their own or with a partner to put together a poster for display. The poster will contain relevant information directly related to the mental condition/illness researched.