Conni Sockwell
Nutrition & Wellness
Courses Taught:
Nutrition and Wellness
Schoology Information
All students need to make sure they have their Office365 school email accounts working and ready to use! We will be using Schoology for online learning, and your school email accounts are needed to log on.
Information on student accounts can be found at www.dcsdms.org/kb under Student Accounts. This will help you determine your username/email address.
If you have never logged in to your student email account, follow the directions found at the website above.
Please email me if you have any questions!
Remind Information
Ebook Instructions
Nutrition and Wellness Classroom Syllabus
Sockwell's syllabus.docx
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Instructor: Conni Sockwell
Email: conni.sockwell@dcsms.org
Phone: (662) 536-3612 ext. 354
School website: desotocountyschools.org
TEXTBOOK: Guide to Good Food, Largen/Bence (2012)
Goodheart-Willcox 12th edition
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Remind:
- Everyone needs to join Remind. Text @mssockwell to 81010
SCHOOLOGY:
- username is your school email (first initial, last initial, last 6 numbers of your MSIS#) @dscms.org
- password is your school mascot and your birthday EX: Jaguars08/17/20
Topics Covered during the nine weeks:
- Kitchen and Food Safety
- Table Etiquette and Manners
- Nutrition
- Personal Fitness
- Planning Meals
- Shopping Decisions
- Global Cuisine
- Careers in Nutrition and Wellness
- 4 hands-on Cooking labs
GRADING SCALE:
A=90-100, B=80-89, C=70-79, D=60-69, F=0-59
Tests / Projects / Labs = 50%
Homework / Daily work = 30%
9 weeks test = 20%
SUPPLIES:
coloring utensils, glue stick, scissors, ruler
INSURANCE WORK:
Each student will be allowed 10 extra credits for the 9 weeks. Each one counts as a daily grade. Anything to show me that they were thinking about our class after school hours counts as extra credit. Some examples could include: A recipe they found in a family cookbook that looked interesting, more detail about something we are studying, a narrative about a cooking show they watched on tv, etc…
About Me
I'm Conni Sockwell, and I'm in my 30th year of teaching. I graduated from Mississippi State with a Bachelor of Science degree in education. Hail State! My teaching experience covers four states and grades 1-12, excluding 5th. I love teaching Nutrition and Wellness at DCHS!
I have 4 children, and they all graduated from DCHS. All 4 are married and having their 1st child in 2021! Yep! 4 grands in one year! Blessed!!!!
I enjoy hanging out with family and friends, reading, and many outside activities.