Health Education I (7-8)
Strand 3: SAFETY AND DISEASE PREVENTION (SDP) Standard HI.SDP.6:
1 class periods of 60 minutes each
Pairs
The students will play beach ball glo-germ. Students will gather information about a disease of their choice using Utah's Online Library resources. The students will use Utah's Online Library to cite their sources. The students will create their disease project in google slides.
Teacher needs to be familiar with Utah's Online Library.
The students will understand the following definitions: pathogens, communicable disease, non-communicable disease, virus, bacteria. The students will know how to create a slide show in google slides.
The students will know how diseases are spread and what they can do to prevent diseases.
The teacher will grab the students attention by playing Beach Ball Glo-Germ. The teacher will show students how to research communicable and non-communicable diseases in the Gale Reference Collection and World Book by searching for skin cancer as an example. The teacher will show students how to cite their sources. The students will follow the rubric as they research their disease.
The students can change the lexile level in their reading material in Utah's Online Library.