Tenth Grade Curriculum Resources

Standard of Learning

10.4 The student will synthesize and evaluate available health information, products, and services for the value and potential impact on his/her health and wellness throughout life. Key concepts/skills include:

marketing and advertising techniques to promote health and wellness;
the use of current technological tools to analyze health products and services;
involvement of local, state, and federal agencies in health-related issues;
the impact of technology on the health status of individuals, families, communities, and the world;
employment opportunities in health-related careers and professions.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will apply technology tools, such as the Internet, to analyze health products and services.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

identify and describe the functions of technological tools.
discuss the impact technological tools have on health products or services:
- provides a large volume of easily accessible health information;
- efficient;
- increases speed of product or service delivery;
- provides an avenue to research and compare available health products and services; and
- provide expanded and expedited care to patients through the World Wide Web.

Sample Lessons

The Body Book Project
Grade(s): 9-12
High School students learn about the human anatomy, make a book of it and then afterwords go as a class to an elementary school and teach the little kids.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/jones_books.html
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The Educator’s Reference Desk: Lesson Plans> Health> Consumer Health Lesson Plans >Fostering Critical Thinking Skills for Consumer Health Decisions
This simple classroom activity can be used to develop consumer health skills among secondary school students. Students select sample advertisements for health products from the print and broadcast media. Peers cooperate to identify the health information and evaluate intended messages. Students present their conclusions orally to their peers, including suggestions to change the ads to help consumers to make informed purchase decisions. This lesson should be used as one component of a unit on consumer health education.
Sponsor: The lesson plan was developed by faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The site is part of the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM). GEM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
http://www.eduref.org (select lesson plans - health - consumer health)
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Kellogg Special K Ads
This lesson helps students understand the relationship between body image and marketing by exploring the Kellogg’s Special K “look good on your own terms” advertising campaign. Students begin by reading about this award-winning, controversial campaign which uses humor to skewer traditional advertising stereotypes about thinness. Students will deconstruct a series of Special K ads and discuss how marketers target “ideal beauty” messages to both men and women. Students will also look at the differences between the different marketing campaigns for Special K that have been used with Canadian and American women.
Sponsor: Media Awareness Network
Contact: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources
Free

Lifetime Health and Fitness Project
Grade(s): 9-12
The lesson will need to be done at your school's computer lab. The students are going to be in groups of 4 and are going to explore the internet about diets, physical fitness and effects of being overweight, cooking healthy and life time activities, and effects of drugs/alcohol/tobacco.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LifetimeHealthAndFitnessProject912.htm
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Macmillan McGraw Hill Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets Cybersmarts Identifying High Quality Sites
Students learn that, because anyone can publish on the Web, they must carefully evaluate the sites they use for research. They review evaluation criteria and use a checklist to "grade" informational sites. Students will learn how the ease of publishing on the World Wide Web may affect the usefulness of some sites' content. Students will interpret the criteria on a site evaluation checklist and apply the checklist to a site, evaluating its usefulness. The activity sheet may be downloaded in PDF format.
Grades 6-8
Contact: http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org
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MedlinePlus: Evaluating Health Information
Filled with tips on how to evaluate health information. This well organized website links the reader to reliable resource, for instance the NLM and NIH Guide to Healthy Web Surfing, the Federal Trade Commission Health Claims on the Internet: Buyer Beware and American Psychological Association Watch for Commercial Influences.
Sponsor: National Library of Medicine & National Institute of Health
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html
Free

New York Times Daily Lesson Plan>Diagnosing Delusions: Debunking Common Medical Myths Through Education
In this lesson, after reading a background article from the New York Times, students learn how widespread medical myths can be potentially dangerous. They then synthesize their knowledge by creating pamphlets that help patients learn the facts behind some commonly believed medical myths.
Sponsor: The New York Times in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education in NYC.
Contact: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons
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New York Times Daily Lesson Plan>'Got Milk?' or 'Not Milk!'? - That Is the Question! Critically Analyzing Information about Dairy Products on the Internet
In this lesson, students critically analyze Web sites that present different sides of the controversial milk debate (good for you/not good for you).
Sponsor: The New York Times in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education in NYC
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons
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New York Times Daily Lesson Plan>Herbs: Healthy Alternatives or Bad Medicine? Comparing Herbal and Pharmaceutical Remedies for Common Ailments
In this lesson, students compare herbal and pharmaceutical remedies for common ailments. Students will investigate the reported effects and warnings about specific herbal and pharmaceutical remedies used to treat common ailments and develop comparison/ contrast charts exploring the researched herbal and pharmaceutical remedies.
Sponsor: The New York Times in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education in NYC
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons
Free

The New York Times Daily Lesson Plans. Bigger Than Life, But Not Necessarily Better
Evaluating Images of Health in American Society: A Science Lesson
In this lesson, students examine where one develops his or her views about health and ways in which different products promote specific ideas of what should be seen as healthy. Students then investigate different ways in which people alter their bodies to become more like the "ideal"' picture of health promoted in American society and assess the marketing of dolls, action figures, and nutritional supplements, focusing on the images of health that they present.
Sponsor: The New York Times in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education in NYC.
Contact: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons
Free

Additional Instructional Resources

Center for Disease Control – http://www.cdc.gov
Centers for Disease Control – http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/findings.htm
Community Access to Technology, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - http://www.gatesfoundation.org
Consumer Product Safety Commission's Kidd Safety - http://www.education-world.com/parents/health/safety.shtml
Consumer Products Safety Commission – http://www.cpsc.gov
http://healthweb.org
Federal Trade Commission - http://www.ftc.gov
Food and Drug Administration – http://www.fda.gov
Food and Drug Administration – http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/200_med.html
Food and Drug Administration - http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/OTClabel.htm
Food and Drug Administration - http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/WhatsRightForYou.htm
Food and Drug Administration – http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/CDRHHHC/brochure-checklist.html
Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation - http://www.fda.gov/cder
Health and Nutrition Product Testing - http://www.consumerlab.com
Health and Science - NASA - http://www.infoplease.com/sci.html
Healthfinder – http://www.healthfinder.gov
How Quackery Sells – http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/quacksell.html
Marketing Specialists
Medical Library Association - http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html
National Institutes of Health – http://www.nih.gov
National Library of Medicine & National Institute of Health - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/overthecountermedicines.html
National Library of Medicine & National Institute of Health – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drugandmedicaldevicesafety
Organ Donation - http://www.organdonor.gov
Quackwatch – http://www.quackwatch.com
Six Types of Advertising - http://www.smalltownmarketing.com/sixads.html
Types of Web Advertising - http://www.pr2.com/webads3.htm
United States Postal Service - http://www.usps.gov
U.S. Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research - http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome
U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Citizen Information Center, Office of Citizen Services and Communications -http://www.consumer.gov

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

compare and contrast methods of disseminating health information: analyze speed, efficiency, and availability from the early 1800s to the present day.
discuss how improvements and advances in technology may save lives in the 21st century.
describe international, cooperative efforts in a health crisis which relied on technology.
evaluate the technology tools that may be used to combat a nuclear, biological, or environmental threat.
compare and contrast the application of technology in the space industry and medical professions.
write a report on the impact of technology on children’s health over the past 100 years.

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