pe make up assignments.pdf - Coventry High School

Individual Physical Education/Health Contract
Long Term Medical Assignment
Choose ONE of the following assignments PER QUARTER as agreed upon by your PE/Health teacher
Make a “Healthy Lifestyles” binder of one page article summaries relating to teen health issues that
pertain to you. The binder should include a minimum of fifteen article summaries from newspapers,
magazines, or the internet. Topics may include physical, emotional, or social health issues. In the
first paragraph, explain why you chose the article and how it pertains to you. The second paragraph
should briefly explain what the article was about and the third paragraph should reflect on whether
or not you feel the article will help you to make healthy lifestyle choices in the future. The articles
and the summaries must be put in plastic sleeves and kept in a three ring binder.
Make Power Point or Photo Story of your “Natural Highs” which are the things in your life like your
interests, goals, extracurricular activities, groups of people, sports, hobbies, places, foods, etc. which
keep you “drug free” and living well. Your Power Point/Photo Story should show your
understanding of a natural high, why you like the things you have included in your project, and why
these things help support your physical, mental and emotional health to keep you living well.
Join a gym. Keep logs (verified by gym staff) of the days and times you work out. You must verify
a minimum of twenty hours.
Purchase a home exercise video and complete a minimum of twenty hours of home exercise verified
by a parent and entered into a log.
Become a Special Olympics Volunteer and devote a minimum of twenty hours to Special Olympics
activities. Keep a log which is verified by the coach.
Volunteer your time in an after school daycare or preschool program. Help the teacher with physical
activities with the children. Keep a log, which is verified by the teacher.
Come up with another creative option which involves a minimum of twenty hours of physical or
health related activity. Suggestions might include choreographing your own dance/fitness routine
and teaching it to elementary school students, creating a PE/Health board game and playing it with
some friends or relatives. Get your idea approved by your PE teacher first. Write the activity below:
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Student
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Physical Education/Health Teacher of Record
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Parent

Individual Physical Education/Health Contract
Short Term Make-up Assignment
Choose ONE of the following assignments for EACH PE CLASS missed. You may repeat the same
assignment multiple times.
Write a three paragraph essay on a magazine or internet article about a teen health issue of particular
interest to you. Topics may include physical, emotional, or social health issues. In the first
paragraph, explain why you chose the article and how it pertains to you. The second paragraph
should briefly explain what the article was about and the third paragraph should reflect on whether
or not you feel the article will help you to make healthy lifestyle choices in the future. The articles
and the summaries must be put in plastic sleeves and kept in a three ring binder.
Prepare a one-page report (3 paragraphs) in which you follow a particular team or player and report
on, evaluate, or comment on the team or player’s overall performance.
Write a three paragraph summary of a current event article from the newspaper related to sports.
Some ideas on topics might be women in sports, sports injuries, salaries of professional athletes,
pressure on children to excel in sports, sports figures as role models, etc. etc.
Write a song or poem about a teen health issue. Some topics might include peer pressure, drug
addiction, loss, grief, anger, frustration, violence, etc.
Make a collage that shows all the issues a typical teenager might worry about in one week
Write a jingle or ad campaign to make kids aware of the dangers of smoking
Design a game to use with an elementary student which emphasizes healthy habits.
Interview one of the school police officers about a topic of interest to yourself. Write a short
summary of that interview.
Research a topic such as drunk driving, drug abuse, suicide, smoking cessation programs, teen
pregnancy on the internet. Cite 3 sources and list those internet addresses with a short description of
what can be found there.
Keep a log of everything you eat for a one-week period. Analyze what was good about your diet and
what could have been better.
Research your favorite Olympic sport. Write a one page summary about the medal winners in that
sport from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Research a particular medical issue and write a one page report about particular conditions, diseases,
treatments, herbal supplements, emotional conditions, medications, etc.
Research specific drugs (illegal or legal) and write a one page report indentifying specific affects on
organs of the body of using the particular substance.
Calculate statistics such as batting averages, winning streaks, percentages of wins/loss of your
favorite sports team or figure. Then write a one paragraph summary of what you found and why you
feel the statistics were or were not in their favor.
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Student
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Physical Education Teacher of Record
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Date
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Parent