Educere Course Overview and Description

Perspectives in Health
Course Id: 200

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Course Overview
Institution	zzzThe VHS Collaborative (SB)
Subject	Health
Education Level	High School
Institution Website	click here

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* Prospective NCAA Division I and II student-athletes should visit the NCAA Eligibility Center website (www.eligibilitycenter.org) and seek the NCAA's acceptance of a particular Education Provider's virtual course prior to registration.

Course Description
This course will examine the connections between physical, mental, and social health, and their impact on our lives. Students will reflect on lifestyle choices that they have made and how these choices may affect their lives. Much of the course is devoted to current health issues, especially those facing high school and post-secondary students. The course will offer discussions and course work on the topics such as nutrition, eating disorders, maintaining your body, cancer, school social health, the media's role in presenting health issues, and many others. Some topics of study are determined by student input and interest. Students are encouraged to moderate a discussion during the course.

To help facilitate discussion, the course will use literary works such as James Michener's Sports in America, and S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. These texts are used to provide a forum for discussing all aspects of health in society today. Excerpts from the Michener text will be available in the MediaCenter and ?The Outsiders? will be loaned to students.

You will examine health concepts by reading about them in the material provided to you as well as completing online Work Assignments and CourseRoom discussions. The activities and readings will vary each week. Other activities will include searching the Internet for information on the concepts, finding national and world perspectives on health issues through online media outlets, discovering local perspectives on concepts by searching your area newspapers on line, interviewing people within your own home community and taking part in discussions with your classmates on issues related to the health concepts. Individual and group work will be involved.

A portion of this course will involve discussions and assignments related to sexuality. This material will be covered in both the context of physical and social health in a bias free manner. Students who are not permitted to study sexuality, or who are uncomfortable with this topic are encouraged to request alternative assignments.

The grading will be based on an electronic portfolio of written work, discussion participation, and assignments.

This class requires a proctored final exam.

Delivery Method

Internet

Real-Time Web-Based Teacher Access

Course Materials
Virtual High School will have course materials, if any, shipped directly to students. While there is no additional cost for course materials, there is an additional charge for shipping. Students are required to return such course materials to course instructor upon completion of the course.

Courses and course detail are subject to change without notice.