[CALIBK12] 7th grade Health Research Project

[Ann Sperske]

One of our biology teachers uses a HOUSE (as in the tv show) approach to
her unit on diseases.  Basically, she gives student groups a list of
symptoms, places the patient visited recently, brief past medical
history, living conditions and the students had to investigate what
disease it was and how it was contracted. They had to do a write up with
citations and do a presentation to the class. I helped her students with
research and citation using noodletools. And I showed them how to avoid
the "bad" sites and go straight to the good stuff from cdc and who. 
It might work for you. 
Ann Sperske 

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[mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of ANNETTE SCHERR
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:14 AM
To: CALIBK12 at lists.sjsu.edu
Subject: [CALIBK12] 7th grade Health Research Project

Hi everyone!  I am a teacher-still  librarian but I now know the role
of the LMT in perpetrating the cause of "Higher Level Critical Thinking
Skills".  My problem is that I can't seem to design or find a project
for a disease unit.  I would like to stay away from the traditional
research paper on a disease and get a little more fun and creative(aka
anti-plagiarism) idea.  Does anyone have any suggestion or links to a
lesson plan.  My thesis:  why reinvent the wheel?  I so far have come up
with the idea of a doctor keeping a chart history on a mystery disease
which is not diagnosed until the end of the project.  Any other ideas
would help.  Thanks.

Annette Scherr
Health Teacher Today/ LMT Tomorrow

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