AURORA HIGH SCHOOL
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
GRADE 9 SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT BROCHURE

Overall Expectations:

Healthy Living
C1.	demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to healthy development; 

C2.	demonstrate the ability to apply health knowledge and living skills to make reasoned decisions and take appropriate
   	  actions relating to their personal health and well-being; 

C3.	demonstrate the ability to make connections that relate to health and well-being – how their choices and behaviours
 			affect both themselves and others, and how factors in the world around them affect their own and others’ health and
 			well-being.

Living Skills
1.		demonstrate personal and interpersonal skills and the use of critical and creative thinking processes as they acquire
 			knowledge and skills in connection with the expectations in the Healthy Living strand.


Task:
You are going to make a multi-page brochure (3 pages min – 5 pages max) that could be distributed to the incoming Grade 8 students regarding one of the health concepts that we discussed in the Grade 9 Healthy Active Living Course.  

When preparing this brochure you are trying to express the most important concepts you have learned this year.  

Be sure to identify any strategies required to minimize potentially dangerous/hazardous situations and how to apply the necessary decision-making skills.  Your ultimate goal is to promote healthy living to the incoming students at Aurora High School. You must present strategies to deal with these issues both on an individual and group basis so students understand the impact that their choices will have both on themselves as well as others.

Requirements:
1. 	Working individually, students will choose a topic for their brochure 	
		This topic must be related to one of the health units that we studied this semester: 
(a)		Healthy Eating
(b)		Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
(c)		Human Development and Sexual Health
(d) 	Substance Use, Addictions and Related Behaviours
	
2. 	Students will organize, design and create a brochure which


demonstrates their knowledge of the topic
demonstrates an ability to apply their knowledge to individual and group situations
demonstrates strategies to deal with some potentially dangerous/hazardous situations
demonstrates decision-making skills related to the issues
supply agency numbers and information related to who can help in these situations


3. 	Students must include in their brochure 


a title page which includes a title, pictures, and catch phrases
the body of the brochure, which includes the knowledge, strategies, decision making process and visual aids
a concluding page that identifying community contacts related to the chosen topic as well as a list of sources used to complete the assignment


Evaluation:
This assignment is worth 10% of the course and will be evaluated using the attached rubric.


 AURORA HIGH SCHOOL
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
GRADE 9 SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT BROCHURE RUBRIC

Category
Level 4
(80-100%)
Level 3
(70-79%)
Level 2
(60-69%)
Level 1
(50-59%)



Knowledge and
Understanding

   

/15

- demonstrates thorough understanding of how choices, behaviours and factors in the world contribute to healthy development and the well-being of self and others. 

Identifies and explains consequences of choices and decisions with great insight and accuracy

- demonstrates considerable understanding of how choices, behaviours and factors in the world contribute to healthy development and the well-being of self or others. 

Identifies and explains consequences of choices and decisions with accuracy



- demonstrates some understanding of how choices, behaviours or factors in the world contribute to healthy development and the well-being of self or others. 


Identifies and explains consequences of choices and decisions with some accuracy

- demonstrates limited understanding of how choices, behaviours and factors in the world contribute to healthy development and the well-being of self or others. 


Identifies and explains consequences of choices and decisions with limited accuracy


Thinking and Inquiry

/10



- demonstrates thorough and detailed critical and creative thinking processes as they relate to the topic



- demonstrates considerable critical and creative thinking processes as they relate to the topic

- demonstrates some critical and creative thinking processes as they mostly relate to the topic



- demonstrates limited critical and creative thinking processes as they relate to the topic


Application

/20 marks

                   

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/15 marks


/35

- demonstrates the ability to make connections related to health and well-being of self and others with a high degree of effectiveness

- applies reasoned and appropriate decision-making skills related to personal health and wellbeing with a high degree of success



- demonstrates the ability to make connections related to health and well-being of self and others with considerable effectiveness

- applies reasoned and appropriate decision-making skills related to personal health and wellbeing with considerable success

- demonstrates the ability to make connections related to health and well-being of self and others with some effectiveness


- applies reasoned and appropriate decision-making skills related to personal health and wellbeing with some success

- demonstrates the ability to make connections related to health and well-being of self and others with limited effectiveness


- applies reasoned and appropriate decision-making skills related to personal health and wellbeing with a limited success


Communication


/10

- brochure is highly organized and appealing and communicates the topic with a high degree of clarity



- brochure is organized and includes elements that are appealing; it communicates the topic with clarity

- brochure is somewhat organized and communicates the topic with some clarity



- brochure is mostly disorganized or messy and communicates the topic with limited clarity