In week 9, we were introduced to Advocacy in Health Education. Our first project was to find out who our political representatives were. This was done by visiting the THOMAS Website and doing research to gather their contact information. We also learned how to write SMART goals and started our first week of our Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change. Mine was to eat 1 serving (3oz) of unprocessed meat a day. In addition to our Eco-Chic posts, we also learned how to join Linky Parties on Dr.V’s blog.
Week 10 started off with our Healthy People/THOMAS project. Here we have to chose 1 HealthyPeople 2010 goal that we were interested in. I chose to do mine on promoting health and reducing chronic disease associated with diet and weight. We had to list 1 objective and just give a short synopsis on the progress of that goal. We also had to include the disparities, opportunities & challenges and emerging issues from this goal. Finally we had to use the THOMAS website to find a bill related to our HealthyPeople 2010 goal. The one I found was H.R. 3468, which can be found on the THOMAS website. In class this week we also watched a documentary called Unnatural Causes. This was startling because it explored the racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health in our country.
In week 11 we watched “The Story of Stuff” which is a short film about how we use and use and use and how that affects our environment. We also did an in class activity where we were given a piece of “junk”. We then had to come up with ideas on how it would be used. Each item was different and everyone came up with some great ideas on how to use the junk pieces. This was a fun activity because it sparked a great classroom discussion on all the different opinions and ideas that we could use those hidden treasures for. That time was also spent with Dr.V to dicuss how our Eco-Chic Lifestyle Goal was going. It was nice to chat about our successes and challenges while being held accountable for our overall goals.
Week 12 was fun because we had the chance to view everyone’s photo essays. The photo essay assignment was to choose a topic and tell a story about it with pictures. I chose to do an organic thanksgiving, where I challenged my family to buy organic items (which never happen) for our Thanksgiving dinner. It was a challenge but I was able to use my excellent persuasive skills to convince my dad to agree to it. It was cool to see everyone’s story and how they expressed it through pictures. We also learned how to add Blog Hops to our photo essay assignment so that we could easily browse through everyone’s posts. Week 12 was also the 4th week of our Eco-Chic goal, which I didn’t stay completing true to over Thanksgiving break. I had a couple slip ups but I wasn’t discouraged about it.
Well, that is weeks 9-12 in a nutshell! We don’t have many weeks left in the semester so I am excited to take in whatever information Dr.V has left to share with us before it’s all over! I am also excited to change blog groups to get different views and opinions on my blog posts. Should be an interesting countdown to the end of the semester!
Wow, after reading your blog I realized I had forgot about some of the activities that we have done. Unnatural Causes was a great movie that showed the inequity people in our country face everyday. I also forgot to mention the junking project we did in class. It was so much fun coming up with ideas for the "junk" Dr. V brought in. I am excited to start our new blog groups too. It is a way to meet everyone in our class and find out some of their interests!
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Katie. Your reflection is very in depth and well done! I really enjoyed coming up with ideas for Dr. V's random objects, too. I found the blog hops fun because that's something I've never seen on a blog before!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to switch blogs groups too but sad we aren't in each other's anymore! I've really enjoyed reading your blogs this semester!
I agree, this is a great reflection, I think you covered just about everything! I really enjoyed doing the junking project in class where we got to be creative with our group members and come up with ideas for everyday stuff.
ReplyDeleteKatie, you have a descriptive and well done reflection here. The semester is flying by right before our eyes but we've learned a lot of interesting things the past few weeks. The advocacy project has been a beneficial assignment because it's important to know about various issues along with who are representatives are in case we need to advocate for anything in the future. I also enjoyed the photo essay very much because we got to see what people were interested in. It's awesome that you got your family to have an organic Thanksgiving. Along with you I'm also excited to see what it's in store from here on out. Nice post.
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