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.
Understanding the Standard
The student will analyze how technology may expand and improve services, products, and health care; its impact on families in their pursuit of efficient, reliable, and effective health services; and the global impact of technological improvements on health-care information, delivery, and services.
Essential Knowledge and Skills
The student will:
- recognize how technology impacts health care, biomedical knowledge, research, and clinical information.
- discuss how technology provides statistical data and expanded access to improved health care services.
- explain how patient services have improved through increased ability to store and retrieve information quickly.
- analyze the impact of medical technology on future health care costs.
Sample Lessons
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/PECILifetimeHealthAndFitnessProject912.htm
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Additional Instructional Resources
- 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
- 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
- Medical Technology - http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WO
- Organ Donation - http://www.organdonor.gov
Assessment Ideas
The student will:
- provide oral presentations to compare and contrast health benefits and services using technology information.
- demonstrate how the use of search engines and hospital or medical office computers improve patient access and medical care.
- compare technological capabilities in the health care field from 50 years ago to the present.
- generate ideas for the improved use of technological tools in the future.
- analyze the impact of medical technology on future health care costs.
- investigate the differences between health care capabilities in the United States and other nations. What role does technology play in the differences?
- create a collage depicting the methods of technology available for health services in the United States.
- create a spreadsheet to track estimated health care costs for a family of four for one year.
