PHED 1001 Health & Wellness

Section D

Fall 2019 Online Course

This is for the online class only.

CHECK YOUR GORDON STATE COLLEGE EMAIL!!!  As well as the D2L webpage for this course.  D2L will not be available until June 27th, 2019.

Students that are enrolled in this course should check their Gordon College email in the days leading up to the beginning of the semester.

This course is designed to introduce students to some of the basics concepts of Wellness Living.  Students must have reliable access to the Internet and be reasonably proficient at Desire2Learn (D2L) as well as Microsoft Office.

 

Course Syllabus READ THIS!!!

 

Open Resource Health Textbook - you will find the below Chapters in this book.

Chapter Material: Make sure you review these before taking the quiz(s) for that chapter(s).  Chapters have word documents, videos, and powerpoint presentations for students to use as resources.     

Chapter 1: Healthy Behaviors

Chapter 2: Fitness Principles
Chapter 3: Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Chapter 4: Muscular Fitness
Chapter 5: Flexibility
Chapter 6: Body Composition
Chapter 7: Nutrition
Chapter 8: Weight Management
Chapter 9: Stress
Chapter 10: Cardiovascular Disease
Chapter 11: Cancer
Chapter 12: Substance Use and Abuse
Chapter 13: Sexually Transmitted Infections

Below are videos for some of the quizzes.  You will need to watch the video before attempting the corresponding quiz.

1.  Polyface Farms (Quiz 14):  These videos are about the forward thinking of our food sources and the impact our government has on it.

2.  Killer Stress Documentary (Quiz 15):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYG0ZuTv5rs This is about stress and how it can impact the long-term health of our brains and cardiovascular system.  

3.  Genetic Roulette (Quiz 16): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUNxX0OxP8 This is about our foods and how the changes to them could be causing us enormous health problems.

 

Online Discussion: Instructions

 

Final Exam: The final exam will be given online through D2L.  You may take this at your chosen location.  The date of the exam is Friday, December 13th, 2019.  The time this test will be available all day this day (8:00am - until 11:59pm) on D2L.