Health Education II Ninth - Twelfth Grades
Healthy Environments
Description
Students are given the task of insuring a healthy environment for all athletes living in the Olympic Village.
They are to develop an Olympic Village where the athletes mental, physical and social health needs are met.
The environment should encourage athletes to demonstrate sportsmanship, respect, and an ability to strive to
be their best.
Themes
Environment, Sportsmanship, Friendship, Respect, Citizenship, and Striving for Personal Best
Core Curriculum
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7150-01
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Students develop skills and processes that contribute to the development of a healthy self.
Demonstrate positive strategies for managing stress.
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7150-03
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Students determine how knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors contribute to healthy
relationships with self and others. Develop skills that contribute to healthy dynamic relationships.
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7150-05
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Students determine how individual and group behaviors impact personal and community health and safety.
Analyze the process of creating a safe and caring environment.
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7150-06
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Students plan to incorporate healthy nutritional and fitness behaviors. Evaluate nutrient density
and balance of individual food intake.
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Learning Outcomes
Students Will:
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Analyze the process of creating a safe and caring environment.
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List positive strategies for managing stress
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Tools and Resources
Four large pieces of butcher paper, colored markers, textbook, class Health
Education notebooks, and the Internet
Activity 1: Create a Healthy Olympic Village
Learning Outcomes
Students will recognize and theoretically manage the mental, physical, and
social health needs of athletes participating in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
Instruction
Teacher will present the following situation to the class. As the Salt Lake Organizing Committee prepares for the
upcoming 2002 Olympic Winter Games, they realize the need for a "healthy" Olympic Village. The committee believes
that the village will play a large role in the success of the athletes that stay there. Organizers wish to develop
a plan allowing athletes to eat well, manage stress (including homesickness and loneliness), reduce risk of illness
or injury, develop friendships with other athletes, gain respect for fellow competitors, honor diversity, and improve
sportsmanship. In order to achieve this, students form special committees to address these concerns. Students may
wish to form the following committees.
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Nutrition
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Stress Management
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Health Issues
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Developing positive relationships
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Promoting Spirit of the Olympic Winter Games
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Each committee will brainstorm ways to improve the health environment of the Olympic Village in the
area of their concern. Students may wish to write and diagram their plan. Allow 30-45 minutes for
committee to complete their tasks. Once complete, have committees present their plan to the class
for approval.
Tasks
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Nutrition
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Develop one-day meal plan for athlete requiring 2,000 calories a day. Include fluid
concerns and consideration for high altitude. Develop a one-day meal plan for athletes
requiring 5,000 calories a day. This plan would need to include fluid and calorie intake
while competing. (For example, a cross country skier in a 20K event)
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Stress Management
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Develop a list of all possible stressors an Olympic athlete may encounter. (Include
eustress and distress) Develop a strategy to manage the 10 stressors most likely to
impair athletic performance or "peak performance."
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Health Issues
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Develop a list of health concerns for Olympic athletes staying in the village.
This may include disease transmission, drug/alcohol abuse, high altitude etc. Develop
"Public Awareness" posters to address the top 5 health concerns.
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Develop Positive Relationships
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Design a "Recreation Room" that would allow athletes opportunities for developing
friendships, gaining respect for others, honoring diversity, and increasing sportsmanship.
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Promoting Spirit of the Olympic Winter Games
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Design 5 T-shirts to be given to athletes that promote Olympic Spirit.
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Assessment
Students will present a written and oral plan to improve the environment of the Olympic Village.
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