The Health Patrol is an organization founded several years ago by a group of volunteers committed to fighting against bad health habits. Now, they need more volunteers willing to lend a hand. Do you want to collaborate with them? Ahead!
La Patrulla de la Salud: Misión 1
What is the Health Patrol?
The Patrol teams
Health Patrol is organized into teams. In your classroom, you will have to divide into teams of three or four components, following the instructions of your teacher.
The main strength of this way of organizing is that you will function as a true team, and not as a simple working group. The first thing that you are going to do is investigate the characteristics that good teams must have.
What characteristics should a good team have? Research the Internet. When you finish, you will answer a small questionnaire.
Now, you can answer the questionnaire about teams.
What will your mission consist of?
The mission assigned to the Patrol (you and your teammates) will be to make a Guide of physical activities for boys and girls of your surroundings aged 11, 12 and 13 years.
But before that, you have entrusted some intermediate tasks, which will allow you to learn more about the subject and to confront you without difficulty to the final work.
Intermediate tasks:
- The team gathers information on the Net about PA (Physical Activity) in adolescents and prepares a report.
- The team designs a PA Plan that it will implement for an agreed period of time.
- The team creates a map of their environment with the location of the resources to perform PA.
- The team produces a poster with tips to avoid toxic habits.
Final challenge:
- The team prepares a Guide to Physical Activity for girls and boys.
Assessment
How will your work qualify? Each task, as well as the Final Challenge, will be evaluated with the help of some documents called rubrics, which you have access to at all times, so that they serve as a guide when doing the work. The teacher will evaluate you, but you also have to evaluate your own tasks and those of other colleagues. The following table shows the weight of each task in the final grade.
| TASK | WEIGHT IN THE GRADE |
|---|---|
| Task 1 | 20% |
| Task 2 | 20% |
| Task 3 | 20% |
| Task 4 | 20% |
| Final Challenge | 20% |
Learning Journal
Each member of the team will keep a Learning Journal, which will record all the concerns, progress and doubts that arise in each of the stages of the project. The elaboration of this Journal is as important as the realization of the different Tasks. All entries in the Journal will be part of the final collection of project products.
Development of the Journal
The Journal will be digital (although you could also use a paper pad). Write the Journal entries in a text document that you can create on the Web, and then share it. A good place to do this is Google Drive. If you have a GMail account, you can use it to sign in to Google Drive. If you do not have a GMail account, now is the time to create one.
- Sign in to your Google Drive account, and create a new text document, which you'll call _______'s Learning Journal (put your name in the space).
- Make the first entry in the Journal, which will be entitled «The origin of the project».
- Share the Journal with your teacher. If you do not know how to share, you have a small guide on this link.
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