Healthy Lifestyles 8 Health Hit 4

There are many good sources for accurate drug information.  The National Institute On Drug Abuse (NIDA) is one of my favorite websites that does a great job of showing current, accurate information.  Here is a sample page from the site.

http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugpages/drugsofabuse.html

Healthy Lifestyles 8 Health Hit 3

As we discussed yesterday, many drugs are marketed for medicinal purposes & eventually are outlawed.  Here is an interesting article I found that has a brief history of 10 current illegal drugs...

http://smashingtops.com/weird/10-illegal-drugs-that-used-to-be-legal/

Healthy Lifestyles 8 Health Hit 2

How tough is it to purchase illegal drugs?

http://www.startribune.com/local/129596073.html

This story is scary, & just shows you that drug dealers are resourceful & willing to say or do anything to make money!

Healthy Lifestyles 8 Health Hit 1

Our first unit of the trimester is illegal drugs.  Here are some basic tidbits of information concerning illegal drugs...

Drugs are divided into 3 main categories:

Stimulants - substances that speed up the processes of the body
Depressants - substances that slow down the processes of the body
Hallucinogens - substances that distort the sounds & images around you

Examples of drugs & the category they belong to:

Stimulants - Cocaine, Caffeine, Tobacco, Methamphetamine

Depressants - Alcohol, Heroin, Codeine, Oxycontin

Hallucinogens - PCP, LSD, Marijuana, Ecstasy

Question of the week:

This term means "to induce sleep".  Many people often use it to describe illegal drug use, without paying attention to the type of drug being used.  What is the name of the term?

Safety & Emergencies Pamphlet

This is the final assignment of the school year for health 6! 

We are going to create our very own safety & emergencies pamphlet.  The pamphlet can contain any information that will help to prevent injury, or to properly deal with an emergency if you are confronted with one.

There are a number of good websites to check out for information, the best of which is the American Red Cross Preparedness Fast Facts page:  http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.86f46a12f382290517a8f210b80f78a0/?vgnextoid=92d51a53f1c37110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default

5 Areas of Fitness Assignment

The 6th grade health classes are putting together individual plans to improve their fitness.  They are to create a document that shows the following...

1.  All 5 areas of fitness (muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition, & cardiovascular endurance).
2.  A picture showing someone in action for each area of fitness.
3.  A brief plan for each area

Basketball Golf?

The sixth grade Phy. Ed. classes spent the day participating in Mr. R's basketball golf activity.  The 18 shots are a combination of traditional shots (free throw) to crazy shots (sit on a ball shot).  Here are a few action shots...

Angelica Ventura attempting the chair shot

Hunter Petron, Dylan DesLauriers, & Kaylen Boeddeker doing the "bounce" shot

Kaylee Field with the "backwards" shot from the block

Luke Patzner is able to hit the "granny" shot from the free throw line

Brayden Hannegrefs & Jake Wagner trying their best to hit a "sit on the ball" shot

Emili Cain & Abby Scribner measuring the "behind the basket" shot

Taylor Elliot is about the drop kick the ball through the hoop... or not!