Assignments

Assignment 1: Week 2 Write at least 300 words on the health benefits of exercise. You may use the sources listed on the background reading or you may find you own. The piece of writing should include at least three references, which may be websites listed at the bottom. This should be completed in your books or typed and stuck in.

Assignment 2: Week 3 Complete on your personal wikispace, a page about the following:

Alex: Diabetes Min Joon: Obesity

Your page should include at least three references, and should include at least 300 words of content, and is expected to have visuals, video or pictures to link with your text. We will discuss the grading rubric in class.

Assignment 3: Week 4 Write a short essay style answer to the following question:

" It has been suggested that the majority of teenagers do not participate in regular amounts of exercise, even when opportunities are provided for them to do so." Write at least 200 words either supporting or defending this statement, using details from your reading to support your answer.

Test 1: Week 5 Your assessment will be based on a timed piece of writing. There will two out of the following three questions in the test, and you will attempt to write a short essay style answer to **one** of them. The test will be short, giving you approximately 20 minutes to think and construct your answer.


 * 1) A number of contemporary concerns are labelled as hypokinetic disorders. Explain what a hypokinetic disorder is and describe three such contemporary disorders Explain how exercise can help to act as a cure for each disorder identified in your answer.
 * 2) School aged children have higher levels of obesity than in previous years. Describe the causes of obesity in children under the age of 12. Outline what steps can be taken by schools and parents to improve the health of their children.
 * 3) The terms Fitness and Health are often used interchangably. Define the terms Fitness and Health. In what ways are these two terms linked and in what way is their confusion over the meanings of the term. Give examples of how you can be fit, and yet not healthy and healthy, yet not fit.