I organize my time and plan ahead to make sure that I allow enough time to get everything done.
Stress Resilience:
I am satisfied with the way I handle stress, handling it in healthy ways rather than engaging in self-destructive habits to cope.
Healthy Relationships:
I am happy with my friendships and other social connections.
Rest & Play
I am confident that the amount of time I spend connected to technology such as video games, TV, computer, Facebook, and cell phone is good for my overall well-being.
Handling Emotions:
I am able to share all of my emotions (including sadness, happiness, fear, and worry) with people I trust.
Spirituality:
I forgive others and I forgive myself.
School & Work:
I am pleased with my overall involvement in school.
Care for the Body;
The choices I make about what I eat and drink are healthy.
Before this unit about mental health and tech usage, I assumed mental health conditions as a minor health condition that I didn’t think was serious. I also didn’t have a solid understanding of what really were mental health conditions before the unit, especially surrounding the topic of depression and anxiety. I usually connected depression and anxiety with just stress that teens experience.
What I Learned
After the unit, I realized the seriousness of mental health conditions. For example, depression isn’t just feeling depressed, but also losing interest in hobbies and other things for a long period of time. I expanded my knowledge on mental health conditions by researching on bipolar disorder, a mental health condition. By presenting and sharing with the class, I had a better understanding on the stigmas around mental health conditions. I also noticed the connection between social media usage and mental health. For example, social media may have posts of filtered images, which may lead to comparing your body images to others.
In this unit, we worked on developing our skills in track and field events such as the 100 meter dash, the javelin throw, the high jump, and the long jump.
A strength of mine is the 400 meter dash as I have a mix of power and endurance. However, I could work on my form for my high jump as I believe that I could jump higher.
My science notebook demonstrates the things I have learned in class. I put in a lot of detail when taking notes in science class, including a title and labeling my notes. However, my table of contents isn’t always updated as well as the page numbers which could affect how I review my notes in the future.
I believe that I have improved a lot in reviewing my feedback given from my teachers whether or not I met the standard or not. Even when I met standard, by reviewing the feedback, I can keep on doing the good work I am producing or improve based on the feedback.
I believe that I continue to meet the standard of keeping myself “dialed in” for class. I don’t need to be reminded to stay on task by the teacher or get distracted by classmates.
I also think that I prepare and is ready for future assignments, especially the 3 for 3s. Based on my performance in those tasks, I have constantly earned a perfect score, meaning that I am focused in class and able to know key science concepts.
Evidence for Understanding of Key Concepts
Semester 1
Semester 2
My 3 for 3 quiz has shown a consistent 3 for all of them, demonstrating that I know the basic science concepts I need to know in class.
Evidence of Growth in Science
Standard 1: Developing and Using Models
-The models meet all SAS Model Standard and shown consistency throughout the first and second semester.
Standard 2: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Standard 3: Engaging in Argument from Evidence (CER)
-My CER grades have shown to consistently meet the standard for all of the assignments throughout the first and second semester.
Standard 4: Asking Questions and Defining Solutions
Standard 5: Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Standard 6: Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
-I have also met standards on presenting my findings both in the city climate presentation as well as the species project.
My strengths in band class are that I resubmit my work for a better grade. This is evident when I resubmitted the Wild Horseman assignment, when I got a 2.5 for the first part. I can also play notes correctly without using a fingering chart. This is evident when I can quickly sight-read pieces on a Marimba or a Xylophone. Finally, I can write music using standard notation. This is evident when I created a short piece of music during band class. I am also flexible using pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments. For example, I can transfer my skills from using the snare drum to the timpani or mallet instruments.
Some areas of growth are using practice strategies to help me improve, as I rarely practice at home. I also need to improve at using music vocabulary. I may also push myself for a 4 on Band assignments.
I have learned a lot about stress resilience and how our brain responds to stressers. Stress resilience is made when you are mindful and allows your pre-frontal cortex to control your decisions. Throughout this project, I learned the importance of self management and how technology can help achieve our goals.
Our brain responds to danger, our amygdala takes control instead of the pre-frontal cortex. The stress triggers a response called the FFF (flight, fight, or freeze), which often results in procrastination or arguments when encountering stress.
My WOOP goal is to drink at least 2 L of water each day to maintain my hydration. The app that will support my goal is called WaterLlama, where it tracks my water intake each day. A specific outcome I would hope to achieve is to constantly drink water without the app or anyone to remind me to do so.
My goal links to a wellness metric of Diet & Nutrient. I am starting from 1 L each day, or even less as I usually forget to drink water or too lazy to walk down the stairs to get a cup of water.
According to Dyfi Valley Health, drinking water can help reverse dehydration, improve digestion and prevent headaches, overall improving our mood. Drinking water can also prevent future injuries by making our muscles more flexible.
Part 2 App Analysis and Self-Care Journey
Self-Care Practice:
The app, WaterLlama, includes core features of tracking your water intake everyday. It encourages you to push toward the goal by sending you notifications to drink water every few times. It also gives a “reward” when completing daily goals by unlocking new features in the app.
The only feature I used was the water intake as it was the most relevant and helpful tool when completing my daily goals. The other features were not as helpful, which includes the choice of intaking other beverages which wa snot relevant to my goal.
Technology affects our wellbeing both in positive and negative ways. If we use wellbeing apps, it can help us with our wellbeing by helping us reach our goals. However, social media can also negatively affect our wellbeing as we may doom scroll or procrastinate.
Self-Care Progress:
Based on the data, my overall progress was very consistent, with only once not able to reach the goal of 2 L. I feel like I am drinking water without many reminders from the app and still keeping myself hydrated. My overall mood and health were better.
There were many successes when reaching this goal, as I achieved my goal most of the time. It is slowly becoming a habit of just drinking water, not even realizing it. However, some challenges I had were the fact that sometimes I was “lazy” to get a cup of water. Another challenge was that I had to resist myself from drinking things that weren’t water, which did not meet my goal expectations.
Part 3 Future Self-Care Plan
Short-Term:
By drinking water I could regulate my emotions by first being healthy and cool. Another excercise I could implement is practicing being mindfull, meditating, breathing, etc. I believe that these can control my stress and my emotions when things become too overwhelmed for my to handle. I hope that by practicing these methods, I can cope with stress.
Long-Term:
I want to be able to drink water constantly without the need of water trackers to remind me to do so. As it becomes more of a habit, it can improve my health, which would improve my mood.
