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Welcome to Mr. Maloney's Healthful Living webpage. On this page you will find information for both Health and Physical Education at Wakefield Middle School. You can contact Mr. Maloney by sending an email to me through this site or directly to: emaloney@wcpss.net The first semester was a great success! Thank you to all my students for doing a great job, working hard, and reaching your goals!! Good luck if I don't have you again in the second semester. Students are REQUIRED to dress-out EVERY PE DAY!!! CLASS ROTATION SCHEDULE May 2009 Mon 5/4 Tu 5/5 Wed 5/6 Th 5/7 Fr 5/8 Health PE Health PE Health Mon 5/11 Tu 5/12 Wed 5/13 Th 5/14 Fr 5/15 PE Health PE Health PE Mon 5/18 Tu 5/19 Wed 5/20 Th 5/21 Fr 5/22 Health PE Health PE Health Mon 5/25 Tu 5/26 Wed 5/27 Th 5/28 Fr 5/29 NO SCHOOL PE Health PE Health I will try my best to update this site daily, check back to see NEW information :) GOLF HOMEWORK: Please watch 20 minutes of golf this weekend (schedule is below) and write a 2 paragraph summary of: WHAT YOU SAW, WHO YOU SAW PLAY, WHAT HAPPENED, & WHEN YOU WATCHED. Also, in your summary please include a compare/contrast to what we have done in class our first 3 days in our Golf unit.) This is your last assignment for PE this year. -- It is due Monday June 1st BUT you can email it to me anytime over the weekend. (25 points)
LACROSSE RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Begin by searching for information on the internet on lacrosse, specifically the history of the sport, the development of it into today’s game, and cultures, groups, and individuals who have played the sport. Collect information that you find, making sure you site your sources (just write down the webpage or book title) as you go along.
DO NOT CUT/PASTE FROM THE INTERNET- that is plagiarism. Also, do NOT use wikipedia.com- not a valid research website.
HISTORY OF LACROSSE 1 PAGE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT---- DUE BY FRIDAY MAY 8th. You are to write a 1-2 page typed double spaced (1" margins) essay about the "History of Lacrosse". I am providing websites for you to research. This is a test assignment for your PE grade for our Lacrosse unit. This is due by next Friday in class. Good luck- email me with any questions, comments, or concerns you may have. PHYSICAL EDUCATION 4th Quarter Unit 1 Lacrosse Day 9 Thursday May 7: Final day of unit. We will be working on all the skills learned throughout the unit to see what we have. I will be assessing your progression over the entire Lacrosse unit. Make sure you turn in (email or hand in during class) your Lacrosse Research Essay by Friday May 8th!!!!!!! Day 8 Tuesday May 5: RAIN OUT!!! Rain forced us in today so we worked in the Wellness Center. We also completed the first of our "Physical Fitness Post Tests" for this year - Curl-ups. Over the next couple of weeks we will complete the Post-tests to determine your growth and improvement from the Fitness Testing we completed in August. I will be able to share with you your test scores from August this week.... FOCUS- If this was your "PE EOG" test how would you score? Day 7 Friday May 1: Games continue. We will have all classes using the Lacrosse regulation goals in games. FOCUS- "Modify/Adjust to improve" What can you and or your team do to improve a situation or event that is occuring in your game that is not successful? How does this translate to your life as well? Day 6 Wednesday April 29: Games will begin today. FOCUS- Facilitators will be involved during game play to help keep the game going forward and the conflict to a minimum. Day 5 Monday April 27: Day 4 Thursday April 23: Day 3 Tuesday April 21: Students will apply the scooping and cradling skills to small sided games involvin possession and passing skills in conjunction with scoop/cradle. Day 2 Friday April 17: Scoop and Cradle. Students will review cues to scooping "3 P's" Push-Pull-Perpendicular and cradling "Shoulder-to-shoulder" and "Face-to-face". FOCUS= can you defy gravity??? Centripetal force is our focus when we are discussing force application in PE. Students will participate in "scoop offs" Day 1 Wednesday April 15: Introduction. Students will be provided a brief history of the sport along with a demonstration of the stick. Students will explore their "handedness" to determine if they play right or left handed. FOCUS: 2 most important skills = Scoop & Cradle. Students will explore scooping and cradling in class. Spring Break: Be safe and have FUN!!! Unit 2 Soccer Thursday March 26: Soccer games continue. Teams will play a minimum of three games today. Students will continue to TRACE the field, ANALYZE their teams play, and FORMULATE a game plan for each game. Tuesday March 24: Soccer games begin. Students will be put into teams of 4-6 to begin playing games. FOCUS- students will need to apply the skills and strategies we have learned through all the activities and drills we participated in to be successful during game play. We will review the most basic and important rules of soccer to enable us to play the games. Friday March 20: Capture the Cone: Students will continue to work on the concrete top due to the wet field/weather. We are playing a small-sided game that enables students to implement offensive and defensive skills in association with strategy for a "modified soccer game". FOCUS- Create a game plan or strategy for your team to use. Q1- does every team use the same strategy? Q2- if your strategy/game plan is not working what do you do? Wednesday March 18: Defense, Defense, Defense: Students will practice defense play to explore the most effective ways to defend the opposite team. FOCUS- Disruption is another word for Defense. Q- how can you disrupt the player with the ball without having to steal it and gain possession? Monday March 18: Force Production and Elevation of Soccer ball: Students explored the necessary application of force to propell the soccer ball across the field to their partner so as long as they didn't exceed the amount of force that caused the ball to go further than the distance between them and their partner. FOCUS- elevelation of the ball requires you to strike the ball on the upswing and underneath the ball to get it into the air. Remember to apply the appropriate amount of force so that your partner can still catch/maintain possession. Thursday March 12: Passing, Catching, Dribbling: We have learned these 3 most important skills. Now we are going to put them to use in a variety of activities and games to prepare us for playing the game of soccer. Tuesday March 9: Dribble group: students will explore dribbling the ball through traffic and around individuals while maintaining possession. FOCUS- use your peripheral vision as you travel around the space. Remember to maintain control of the ball as you change directions, stop, and start dribbling. UNIT 1 JUGGLING Thursday Feb 26th: JUGGLING TEST DAY. Students will continue to demonstrate skills for juggling 3 objects (balls or scarfs). Mr. Maloney will test each student individually during class. Do your best :) Tuesday Feb 24th: Day 8 Students will have 2 more days to get to juggling objects. You worked through stations the past two days, how can you apply those pieces to create your completed "Juggling Puzzle"? FOCUS- Practice, Practice, Practice and keep working towards your goal! Friday Feb 20th: Day 7 Students will rotate through the 6 stations again to explore the individual skills that each station focuses on. FOCUS- don't "think"! Remember that we are learning new skills so we want to "PLAN & DO". Try not to think about what you are doing. Also, remember the individual skills that are present at each station are going to be put together to help you juggle 3 objects (tennis balls or juggling scarfs). HOMEWORK!!!! You are to juggle 15-20 minutes over the weekend. If you don't have tennis balls roll up socks that have mass that can replace the balls. ASK PERMISSION BEFORE YOU JUGGLE INSIDE! Wednesday Feb 18th: Day 6 Students will rotate through 6 stations working on different skills for juggling. Some stations will be a review of earlier learned skills while other stations will challenge students to learn new skills. FOCUS- students should look at the individual skills for the stations and observe how the many pieces of the "juggling puzzle" are put together. Friday Feb 13th: Day 5 Students will begin to explore using 3 objects if they are read. Students who can juggle 2 objects without "thinking" can try 3. You will use the "throw and roll" technique using 2 balls and one hand to get you started. Remember your wall test and sound test when juggling 2 or 3 objects. FOCUS- what are you doing that is helping you progress to 3 balls? What can you improve upon today? Wednesday Feb 11th: Day 4 We will continue to work with 2 tennis balls (or scarfs if you prefer) to continue building our "2nd story". Students who did not complete their Juggling Self-Assessment on Monday will complete theirs in class on Wednesday. 4 criteria to evaluate yourself= consistency, "X", height, and waste. FOCUS= How are you putting together a solid foundation (1 ball) with your extension (2 balls) to better enable you to juggle 3 objects??? PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE..... Monday Feb 9th: Day 3 students will complete a self-assessment on their current level of juggling. Students will identify their current strengths, their area of need, and create a plan for success for the remainder of the unit. FOCUS= What do you do well? And "I would juggle even better if....?" Thursday Feb 5th: Day 2 students will review the cues for juggling using 1 scarf. As students become comfortable with 1 scarf, 2 scarfs will be introduced. We will discuss how the need to "cross-brain" thinking will be required. Students will then experiment with a different size, mass, and density object (tennis ball) and it's relationship with gravity. Tuesday Feb 3rd: Day 1 students will discuss and explore the relationship between mass and gravity. Students will experiment the effects of gravity on objects of differing mass, shapes, and density. We will begin with a "juggling scarf" and explore ways to maintatin control. FOCUS- Cross-brain activity. QUESTION= How does your brain work with your hands/coordination? HEALTH Wednesday May 6: Anti-Drug message: Focus will be on the reasons why we do not choose substance abuse. We will look back over the past year to determine instances in our lives that have been stressful. There are many reasons why individuals turn to substance abuse and we will look at ways to combat that in our lives. Monday May 4: Substance Abuse Powerpoint Presentations: We hope to conclude all presentations today in class. We will then focus our attention on the "Anti-Drug" message within our curriculum. Thursday April 30: Substance Abuse Powerpoint Presentations: We will continue to present in class each of the Powerpoints from our Substance Abuse unit. Any groups that do not finish today will complete there presentation on Monday. Tuesday April 28: Substance Abuse Powerpoints Cont'd: Continuing our Powerpoints this week. We will begin to present these in class today. Friday April 24: Substance Abuse Powerpoints Cont'd: We will head back to our classroom to continue putting together our research in the Powerpoint for each group. We hope to finish next week. Wednesday April 22: Substance Abuse Powerpoints cont'd: We will be in the Media Center to continue work on our PP presentations. Please make sure you save your work to my flashdrive before you leave class today so I have a copy of your work. Monday April 20: Substance Abuse Powerpoints: Students will meet in the Media Center to begin work on our Substance Abuse Powerpoint presentations. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Craft will present to our classes the Destiny/Web Portal resource available to students. Students will then receive their groups and the rubric. We will be in the Media Center Monday & Wednesday this week and hope to complete the Powerpoints and present in class on Friday. Thursday April 16: Performance Enhancing Drugs Powerpoint. Students will view the PED powerpoint and complete a writing prompt. Students will write in response to a question for submission as a sample in their writing folders. Spring Break - Be safe and have FUN!!!! Friday March 27: Blue Diamond Assessment #4- this will be the first Blue Diamond for Health for any 8th grader who did not have Mr. Maloney last semester. You will get your results on Tuesday in Health. Nutrition Test will also be given today. Wednesday March 25: Gallery Walk complete. Students will be reminded of test and Blue Diamond on Friday. Monday March 23: Gallery Walk will continue for all periods as some will complete their group assignment today. Period 1 - turn in your chapter review from the weekend. We will have our Blue Diamond this week on Nutrition Goal 4. Thursday March 19: Students continue working on their Nutrition Lesson Jigsaw. Students will present next week in preparation for their Blue Diamond. Tuesday March 17: Nutrition Lesson Jigsaw. Students in groups will each become "masters of their lesson" and will teach/present to the class their content. We are jigsawing through the chapter to maximize our class time and allow each student to get a deeper understanding of the content presented. FOCUS- students will be able to understand and apply the nutritional information to personal situations and demonstrate the knowledge as it relates to Nutrition. Thursday March 5th: Students will receive their "Diet Tables" that will be part 1 of their Nutrition project. We will be completing these over the weekend. They will be due for class on Monday March 9th. Part 1 MUST be complete for Monday so we can start Part 2 in class. Friday Feb 27th: Quizzes will be returned and we will go over them in class. Students did AWESOME!!!! WAY TO GO!! We will view Toxic Relationships Video and students will take 15 video facts. This will conclude our mini-relationships unit. We will not be sharing our "Relationship Raps" in class. Wednesday Feb 25th: Quiz I hope you studied!!!! Pictures are today through health. We will go to the Theatre to take pictures after your quiz. You will receive your interim in class on Friday. Monday Feb 23rd: QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY!!!! I messages, Internet safety, & Interpersonal Communication. Students receive their I messages back and are to study for Wednesday. Responsibility Rap- groups will develop a rap or poem or story about RESPONSIBILITY and continue working through this during the period. FOCUS- what is responsibility and what does it represent in your lives? Thursday Feb 19th: Students will receive their group "I Messages" work back. They will exchange their papers and evaluate using the rubric/criteria for writing an "I Message"= Assertive, Feeling, Event, Effect. FOCUS- how can you communicate your feelings about an event to someone else using your interpersonal communication skills in an effective way to get your thoughts across to the other person to effect change? Tuesday Feb 17th: Mr. Maloney is out attending training today. Students will work through group activities involving "I messages" and me and my group. Reflect on your actions while working through groups. FOCUS- what roles do you fill when working with others? Monday Feb 16th: Make-up day from earlier missed due to snow. Thursday Feb 12th: Students will complete the internet safety activity in groups. Tuesday Feb 10th: Internet Safety- students will complete presenting their commercials and we will conclude our work on "Media Influences". We will discuss and work through Internet Safety. FOCUS- how can you protect yourself in situations online? HOMEWORK- use the Tools Necessary for Interpersonal Communication to look at three specific conversations you have over the next 48 hours: 1. communication with a peer 2. communication with an adult 3. argument with anyone. Use the "Necessary Tools" as a checklist to see how your interpersonal communication varies from person to person and how it effects arguments. Bring those "thoughts" to class on Thursday. Friday Feb 6th: JOB SHADOW DAY - many students are attending a day of 'work' today. Students who are in class will be completing a Scavenger Hunt for Sources of Health using the internet. Students who complete this assignment will be given credit for completing a Health Current Event. See Mr. Maloney if you were not in class on Friday and would like to have the opportunity to complete this assignment outside of class. FOCUS- can you identify "good" sources or health information for a wide range of Health topics. Remember we are looking for sources that we can trust and that are reliable and valid sources. Wednesday Feb 4th- Students will continue developing their group advertisement for a "generic product" to their peers. Remember, we are focusing on "healthy ways to advertise". Students will share and/or present their information to the rest of the class. We will finish up any groups who have not presented on Monday. Monday Feb 2nd- Media Influence on Teens. We will be discussing the Super Bowl Ads and using them as a springboard to our objective of how the Media Influences teens and their health. Students will work in groups to create an advertisement for a "generic product" to sell to teens in the Raleigh/Wake Forest area. FOCUS= How can you influence, in a positive manner, teens to purchase your product, what is your hook?
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