S+Theriault,+Elizabeth

**Office: In Little Mermaids castle** **Office Phone:xxx-xxx-xxx** **Office Hours: Gold days 2nd period, Blue days 3rd period** ** E-mail: elizabeth.theriault@maine.edu **
 * Teacher: Ms. Theriault**

=Summary of Unit= The purpose of this unit on healthy choices is to make students aware of the drug, sexual and relationship choices that will arise in their life and the consequences that each can entail if the choice chosen was a negative one. Students will not only get the knowledge of the different drugs, sex, and pregnancy, but also how to react to being in situations they know can have negative consequences on their lives. Students will learn the critical details, vocabulary, and factual information about tobacco, healthy relationships, unhealthy relationships, and pregnancy. Students will understand that unintended pregnancies can be avoided using any of the various types of contraceptives and birth control, that they will always have choices when it comes to substances such as tobacco and alcohol, and healthy relationships are important to being healthy. Students will be able three essential questions such as; how can I avoid pregnancy that could be unintended? How do the choices I make about substances affect my health? Why are having healthy relationships so important? Students will get to watch movie clips, read blogs, and listen to guest speakers, from the women’s prison, which have been put in certain situations. Students will also get to learn of the different choices that the guest speakers made whether they are positive, negative, or both. Students will be assessed formatively after every lesson so that I can see the mastery of the topic that was taught. The students will work through six lessons in the unit, each lesson will require the student to reach into their creative mind and produce a product using type II technologies. These technologies include wiki, i-movie, inspiration, comic life, podcasts, and video logs.

=Establish Goals=

Maine Learning Results: Health Education and Physical Education-C. Health Promotion and Risk reduction C1 Healthy Practices and Behaviors Grade 9-Diploma Students demonstrate healthy practices and/or behaviors to maintain or improve the health of self and others in each of the following areas; healthy eating; physical activity; tobacco; alcohol; and other drug-use prevention; and prevention of STD's, HIV, and unintended pregnancy. = = =Students will understand that= •unintended pregnancies can be avoided using any of the various types of contraceptives and birth control. •they will always have choices when it comes to substances such as tobacco and alcohol. •healthy relationships are important to being healthy. = = =Essential Questions= •How can I avoid pregnancy that could be unintended? •How do the choices I make about substances affect my health? •Why are having healthy relationships so important?

= = =Students will know= •critical details: how to use the different contraception methods. What situations will arise and the choices you have. •vocabulary: HIV, STI, penis, vagina, c, alcohol, tobacco pregnancy, trimester, embryo, umbilical cord, condoms, abstinence. •factual information: birth control <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(contraceptives, condoms, pill) pregnancy <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(trimesters, embryo, umbilical cord) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">healthy relationships (love, friendship) choices <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(drugs, abstinence) drugs (background, uses, negative effects.)

= = =Students will be able to= <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">•describe the different substances and choices they have. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">•tell a story of having a healthy or an unhealthy relationship. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">•create a project on either tobacco or alcohol. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">•compare and contrast the different types of birth control and contraceptives. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">•role-play being pregnant in high school. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">•recognize what a healthy relationship is.

**Performance Task Overview** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Seventeen Magazine and MTV’s Teen Mom is now going online and their editors are looking for stories to help other teenagers about unintended pregnancy and the choices that are involved in pregnancy. You have a master’s in human sexuality are very excited to educate teens about pregnancy whether it be unintended or planned. Using I-Movie, you are going to send in to Seventeen Magazine and MTV’s Teen Mom your story where you will explain who you are, where you’re from, and why you want to educate teens. After giving some background, you will explain what it’s like to be pregnant in high school. You will express both the bad and the good of pregnancy. Your oral presentation will be to show the I-movie and set the stage for a discussion on teenage pregnancy. Seventeen magazine and MTV’s Teen mom (your classmates) will all be in attendance to hear your information about being pregnant in high school and to gather further facts to put on their websites. The media will be given ten questions ahead of time that they can ask that will dig deeper into the topic (you will have the general ideas of these questions ahead of time). Other teens in the world are counting on your story to help change their minds when it comes to having sexual relationships and warn them about unintended pregnancy. Do not make another mistake by not giving them truth about teenage pregnancy. Good luck!

=Expectations= <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Plagiarism-It is very important that you do not cheat in my class as it is against the law. Any questions on plagiarism look in the student handbook. Know that if you are caught plagiarizing it will be an automatic fail for the project as well as any consequence that the school hands out.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Attendance- I expect everyone to be able to make it to class. We are all human and I understand that things do come up and if you do miss a class, it is your job to find out what you missed. I will be willing to help any student filling them in with what they missed. Students will be able to look at the wiki for due dates on projects. However, most of our class time is spent being interactive with each other so I highly reccommend you come.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Late Work Policy/Redo's- I will not penalize you for any late work. Students who pass their work in on time however will get points towards their participation grade. Late work becomes too late to pass in after the second time we meet and you still do not have it. I believe your content knowledge is most important.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Classroom Expectations: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Cooperation- In almost every class there will be cooperative learning groups, discussions, and debates. It is important that you participate in all of these as cooperation is an important part of your grade but I do understand that some students are shy and I will not pressure you into do anything that you do not want to.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Respect- We discuss and learn very touchy material in this class. It is very important that anyone who is talking is respected and treated fairly. You may not have the same opinion as them but you must respect the person they are. Everyone has the right to talk and express his or her feelings. Anything said inside the classroom stays inside the classroom =Benchmarks=

There is a potential for 500 points. There is no extra credit. Good Luck!

•Wiki (50pts): Students will choose either tobacco or alcohol and provide a wiki throughout the unit with information and the choices they will have to make if using the substance. The wiki should be three pages (cover page and introduction, statistics, and the last page harmful effects and how it could affect your life if under the influence of tobacco or alcohol. I will check the progress of the wikis once a week to see if any improvements need to be made.

•I-Movie (100pts): Students will produce a public service announcement on either tobacco or alcohol and will show it to the class. The I-movie will be at least 2 minutes long and will tell a story of someone being under the influence and will have at least 2 facts included in the movie. The PSA's will be shown to the class and the best ones will be shown on the school TVs in the morning.

•Inspiration (50pts): Students will use inspiration to map out their different ideas on what a healthy relationship is. The inspiration will be done during class and it will include at least 10 different ideas on what a healthy relationship is. In addition, the inspiration will need to include one unique thing incorporated into the project. Inspiration must be eye-catching as it will be presented to the class and will be turned in to be graded.

•Comic Life (100pts): Students will produce a comic life showing the difference between a healthy and an unhealthy relationship. The comic will be at least four pages and will need to be eye-catching. You will need to include someone or something talking and will need to be to tell a story of someone or something having either a healthy or unhealthy relationship. The comic life will include at least three facts of what makes a healthy or an unhealthy relationship.

•Podcast (50pts): Students will create a podcast using garage band comparing and contrasting at least two different contraceptives or birth control options. Students will use garage band to create a podcast about birth control and contraceptives. Students will need to compare two different contraceptives or birth control telling the class the name, cost, how and where to get it, effective rate, what it looks like, and something interesting that students may want to know.

•Video Log (150pts): Students will produce a Video Log using I-movie share what it is like to be pregnant in high school. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Seventeen Magazine and MTV’s Teen Mom is now going online and their editors are looking for stories to help other teenagers about unintended pregnancy and the choices that are involved in pregnancy. You have a master’s in human sexuality are very excited to educate teens about pregnancy whether it be unintended or planned. Using I-Movie, you are going to send in to Seventeen Magazine and MTV’s Teen Mom your story where you will explain who you are, where you are from, and why you want to educate teens. After giving some background, you will explain what it is like to be pregnant in high school. You will express both the bad and the good of pregnancy. Make it as interesting as possible. =Grading Scale=

**A** (93 -100), **A-** (90 - 92), **B+** (87 - 89), **B** (83 - 86), **B-** (80 - 82), **C+**(77 - 79), **C** (73-76), **C-** (70 - 72), **D+**(67 - 69), **D** (63 - 66), **D-** (60 - 62), **F** (0 - 59).