Health Project Due 1/20

Dear Student/Parents:

Our chapter 5 Health unit is underway (Preventing Disease) and we will close the unit next Friday (Jan. 20) with a two part test.  Part of the test will be a short, written assessment that will include matching and true/false questions.  Additionally, there will be few, short-answer, comprehension questions.  To best prepare for this part of the test, each student should read the chapter, when assigned, (pages 121 – 141) and be an active and engaged classroom participant.  A review and practice test can be found on pages 142 – 145.  We will be reviewing these pages in class next week. 

The second part of their test will be to create a “Germ Fighting Bulletin Board” as described on page 121 of the text book.  Student will be given approximately 30 minutes to create a picture or collage (on a piece of standard construction paper) to add to a hallway bulletin board that will be dedicated to the chapter’s main idea:  preventing disease.  To prepare for this part of the test, students may bring in magazine, newspaper or internet pictures or any other relative information to use.  Alternatively, they may create drawings in class using information found in their text or other classroom resources.  All materials should be brought to school on Friday the 20th to be used for our bulletin project. 

A vocabulary list is provided below to assist students in their review and in their collection of materials.  As always, thank you all your hard work and support!

Ms. Coffman

Chapter 5 Vocabulary List

Abstinence

Allergy

Asthma

Bacteria

Diabetes

Disability

Disease

Exercise

Fever

Flu

Healthy Foods

Immune

Infectious disease

Managing Stress

Medicine

Noninfectious disease

Pathogens

Stress

Symptom

Vaccine

Virus

Warning Label