LibGuides: 8th Grade Health: Disease/Condition/Disorder Project: Home

Overview

You have recently graduated from college and have just landed your first full-time job!

Thanks to your extensive science background, you have been hired as a Youth Educator by the Tredyffrin/Easttown Health Organization (TEHO). Your position requires you to research diseases/conditions/disorders that affect members of the community and present your work to students within the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District.

Task

Your supervisors at the Tredyffrin/Easttown Health Organization, Mrs. Himes and Mr. Bush, have just given you your first assignment:

Sometime between Tues. 10/27 and Wed. 11/4 (depending on what cycle days your class meets for health), you will visit the eighth grade health classrooms at Tredyffrin/Easttown Middle School and speak to the students about a disease/condition/disorder that affects the human body.

Your supervisors will allow you to choose which topic you will present about from a list. Your supervisors have high expectations for you. The overall goals for your presentation are:

To be informative
To present material in a manner that 13 and 14 year olds can understand
To be interesting and hold the attention of your 8th grade audience
Informative materials must be left for the students

PACKET

Packet

Grading

Grading:

* Notes/Research pages – 40 points (4 different sources – 10 points per notes page)

* Health Fair Presentation – 100 points

* Health Fair Presentation Questions – 2 points per presentation

DUE DATES WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN CLASS!

** Late projects will receive severe penalties.

Projects received one class late will receive 10 points off the total grade.

Beyond one class late, the project will receive a zero.**

If you have any problems or questions please see your health teacher as soon as possible.