Humanities Homework Help

1.You’ve been invited to lead a brief presentation for a group of seniors in high school who are preparing to start college to introduce ideas and strategies that will help them succeed in their degree path.

Begin outlining your presentation by defining “wellness.” (30 points)

• Define the abstract concept of “wellness” as it has been explored in this course using your own words. (10 pts) 
• In this course, we differentiated wellness from health (the absence of disease) and fitness (one’s readiness or adaptability for a specific task). Explain the relationships between these concepts of health, fitness, and wellness. (10 pts)
• Reflect on the course, specifically the morbidity and mortality information, and brainstorm (in 3-5 sentences) what the phrase “lifetime wellness” means in the context of all that you’ve learned and how you would communicate that to the group. (10 pts)

2. Now that you have outlined the introduction to your presentation, introduce the idea of metacognition and explore how it can help in studying and working toward greater well-being. (30 points)

• Using what you’ve learned from our course content and your Reflections, first explain the concept of metacognition in your own words. (10 pts)
• Provide a specific, relevant example to demonstrate a metacognitive strategy that high school seniors or college freshmen would find relatable and useful. (10 pts)
• Describe how using metacognitive strategies to be a self-directed learner can help them take control of their studies and succeed in their career and personal goals (10 pts). 

3.  Finally, round out your outline by identifying some major ideas and linking them together in the context of what you’ve planned out. What would be helpful for them to know? (20 pts)

• Review our course content, then identify and list at least 3 additional topics from this class that you would share with this group of high school students to help prepare them to manage their well-being in college and beyond. (5 pts)
• For each topic you chose, list at least one specific piece of information from our class that you think they should know. (5 pts)
• In a few sentences, demonstrate your understanding of how the topics and information you selected to share relate to your earlier explanation of the idea of “lifetime wellness.” (10 pts) 

Discussion:

We began our term by learning about the concept of metacognition, or thinking about thinking, and the abstract concept of “wellness.” We explored ideas around the built environment, logical thinking, emotional intelligence, media literacy, and psuedoinformation.

In our second third, we looked at practical behaviors related to the wellness dimensions, and gained a working understanding of the systems of the human body that govern and are affected by these behaviors. 

Most recently, we explored the idea of nutrition, both from the physiological perspective of one’s own body and how society can affect our ability to meet our nutritional needs and live a full, healthy life. 

• What connections can you draw between all these ideas and other concepts, practices, and ideas explored during our course?
• What was most useful to you? What will you remember in a few months, years, or decades? 
• What would you want to say to your classmates who you’ve gotten to know over the last few weeks?

Reflection:

How do you feel now that you are essentially finished with this course?

2. What has been the most surprising topic to learn about? Why?

3. What was the most uninteresting part? Why?

4. How has your understanding of the word “wellness” changed since before this course?

5. Has learning about the extent of cognitive biases affected how you view the world? Why or why not?

6. What parts of our material felt most relevant to your experience? Why? 

7. Have you shared anything you’ve learned with your family? If not, why not? If so, what was that like?

8. If you were asked to give a presentation on wellness to a group of prospective freshmen tomorrow, what information would you include?

9. Of what you learned in this course, what would you not want to forget? 

10. Imagine you can travel back in time and speak to yourself at the beginning of this class. How would you explain what you have learned?