Health

Area || Curriculum Standard(s) || Technology || Description || Supporting Resource || Tried and True (TT) or New and Innovative (NI) ||
 * Content
 * Health || National Health Education Standards

Standard: Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Benchmark: Students will encourage others to make positive health choices. || Flip Video Camcorders, Internet || Heart disease is currenlty the leading cause of death in Ohio. Students will use the internet to research heart disease and ways to prevent heart disease. After researching the topic, students will make a flip video telling others about heart diseases and how to prevent them. Students will work in groups on this project.

The video will address the following: What are the most popular heart diseases? How can you prevent heart disease? What are some heart disease statistics? Why is it important to prevent heart disease and encourage others to do the same? || [|How Tiny Camcorders are Changing Education] This article stated that flip videos allowed for depth of inquiry and are a significant avenue for the way young people acquire knowledge. We are a visual society and it is easier to explain your thoughts and ideas by video.

This article states that the internet is an educational tool that is used by almost all American schools today. || (NI) Flip video camcorders have recently been introduced. Flip video camcorders are based off of video camcorders, but with newer technologies.

(TT) Internet websites have been used for several years on a regular basis with students. ||