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The Human Disease Project   You have recently graduated from college and have just landed your first fulltime job!  Thanks to your extensive science background, you have been hired as a Health Educator

Biology

The Human Disease Project

 

You have recently graduated from college and have just landed your first fulltime job!  Thanks to your extensive science background, you have been hired as a Health Educator. Your position requires you to research diseases that affect members of the community and present your work to family and patients.

 

Task

Design a brochure, poster, or powerpoint presentation about a disease that affects the human body.

 

• Your presentation should be informative

• You should present your material in a manner that people with a basic high school education could understand.

• Your presentation should be interesting and hold the attention of the same audience.

• You must have a strong visual presentation.

 

The presentation and deliverable must include the following information about your disease:

A basic description of the disease

A brief history of the disease

Age group/gender/cultural group most affected by this disease

The symptoms of the disease

How the body is affected by the disease

Cures or treatments for the disease

What causes the disease (how can a person get it)

How a person's daily life is affected by the disease

Number of Americans affected by the disease

Work Cited Page with at least three different sources. (Wikipedia may not be one of these three main sources.)

 

The items in bold must relate to the topics of the course: molecules, cells, DNA, heredity, cell division, evolution, as much as possible and appropriate.

 

You cannot use the disease that your lecture instructor uses as the main example or theme of the course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you choose to do a pamphlet, this is a model.  If you do a poster or set of slides, this format can be adjusted.  The oral presentation is a powerpoint, so this can be used as a guide for that also.

Tri-fold Brochure

 

 

Your health brochure can be completed in one of two ways:

• Using a computer program, such as Microsoft Publisher

• By hand, using heavy-duty construction paper or oak tag—written work should be typed and pasted neatly to the paper.

 

Layout:

Your health brochure should include a cover, 4 sections of information, and the back. Each section should have both written information, pictures, photos or clip art that correspond to the text. The brochure must be arranged as follows:

 

Inside

Section 1

~Brief history of disease

 

~Image related to the topic.

 

 

Section 2

~Symptoms of the disease

 

~How the disease affects the body (what body system does it affect-be specific as to how it attacks organs or parts of a particular body system)

 

~image of body system affected

Section 3

~How does the disease affect a person’s daily life

 

~Prevention of the disease

 

~image related to the information

 

Outside

Section 4

~Basic description of

the disease

 

~Cause of the disease

 

~Age group, gender,

cultural group most affected by disease

 

~image that relates to the information

 

Back

 

~MLA Works Cited Page with at least three different sources.

 

Cover

~Name of disease

 

~Student first and last name

 

~Date

 

~Block

 

~Pictures, photos, or

clip art

 

Remember to relate to the course topics as much as possible and appropriate!

 

 

 

 

HUMAN BODY SYSTEMS DISEASE PROJECT RUBRIC

 

Name:                                                                                    Disease:

Criteria

Possible Points

Points Earned

Name of disease, illustration, students first and last names, date

 

5

 

 

Product is easy to read

10

 

Brief history of disease

 

10

 

Symptoms of the disease; How the disease affects the body (what body system does it affect-be specific as to how it attacks organs or parts of a particular body system)

 

 

 

15

 

How does the disease affect a person’s daily life; Prevention of the disease

 

15

 

Basic description of

the disease; Cause of the disease; Age group, gender,

cultural group most affected by disease

 

 

15

 

Class topics referred to correctly and appropriately

20

 

Works Cited: MLA format, at least three sources used and cited correctly

5

 

Grammar, spelling, punctuation, neatness, effort   

5

 

TOTAL POINTS:

100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOME DISEASES

Here is a list of diseases to start you off. There are many others that you may want to suggest as alternatives.

 

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

• Tongue/cheek cancer

• Ulcers

• Appendicitis

• Hepatitis

• Colon cancer

• Acid reflux

• Cirrhosis

• Crohn’s disease

• Pancreatic cancer

• Gall stones

 

EXCRETORY SYSTEM

• Excema

• Skin cancer

• Kidney stones

• Nephritis

• Bladder stones

• Bladder cancer

 

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

• Leukemia

• Anemia

• Hypertension

• Atherosclerosis/Arteriosclerosis

• Aneurysm

• Hodgkin's disease

 

NERVOUS SYSTEM

• Meningitis

• Stroke

• Multiple sclerosis

• Parkinson’s

• Alzheimer’s

 

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

• Sinusitis

• Throat cancer

• Bronchitis

• Asthma

• Emphysema

• Lung cancer

• Influenza

 

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

• Goiter

• Addison’s disease

• Diabetes

• Hypoglycemia

• Cushing’s disease

 

IMMUNE SYSTEM

• HIV/AIDS

• Lyme disease

• Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

• Mononucleosis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

Foglia. "Explore Biology | Biology Teaching & Learning Resources." Health Pamphlet Project. N.p., 2004. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.

"Home | Shelly's Science Spot | Hackensack Middle School | Hackensack, NJ." The Human Disease Project. Hackensack, 17 Oct. 2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.

 

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