Standard of Learning

9.4 The student will use various sources of information to evaluate global health issues. Key concepts/skills include:

1. the connections between personal health goals and state or national health issues (e.g., as found in the Report of the Surgeon General);
2. the benefits of information provided by recognized sources such as state and local health departments, the United States of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American Dietetic Association (ADA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Understanding the Standard

The student will identify state, national, and global health agencies, such as the WHO, CDC, NIH, FDA, and state and local health departments, that provide information and services to help communities and the world protect public health and safety.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• research the FDA, NIH, WHO, and CDC and identify their public health responsibilities.
• determine how individuals and communities access information from these organizations.
• analyze the health conditions of 10 nations.
• identify members of these health organizations.
• determine these health organizations' scope of influence or the methods used to affect health practices. (e.g., FDA restricted use of a product based on the product's clinical results)

Sample Lessons

The Body Book Project
Grade(s): 9-12
High School students learn about the human anatomy, make a book of it and then afterwords go as a class to an elementary school and teach the little kids.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/jones_books.html
Free

Eating Disorders in Teenagers Today
Grade(s): 7-12
This lesson will enable students to understand the complexity of eating disorders and their underlying causes, the identifiable symptoms of common eating disorders, and the resources available to teenagers that may help to prevent and/or treat eating disorders.
http://apps.caes.uga.edu/sbof/main/lessonPlan/EatingDisorders.pdf
Free

Health: Eating Disorders
Grade(s): 7-9
Learn about anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive overeating, and other types of eating disorders. Find out their signs and symptoms, how they can be identified, and prevented. Includes video files, peer stories, questions and answers, quizzes, and a lesson plan. There is also a link to an eThemes resource on diet and nutrition.
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001532.shtml
Free

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
Free

Making and Using a Gel Person to Teach Human Anatomy
Grade(s): 9-12
In this lesson, high school students will use a gel person to describe the overall body plan of a human, identify the major organs of the human body, aid in the visualization of scanning imaging, describe anatomical planes and directions, and make transverse sections.
http://www.iit.edu/~smile/bi96m3.html
Free

 

Additional Instructional Resources

• Center for Disease Control - http://www.cdc.gov
• Centers for Disease Control – http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/findings.htm
• http://healthweb.org
• Consumer Product Safety Commission's Kidd Safety - http://www.education-world.com/parents/health/safety.shtml
• Food and Drug Administration - http://www.fda.gov
• Food and Drug Administration – http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/200_med.html
• Food and Drug Administration - http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/OTClabel.htm
• Food and Drug Administration - http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/WhatsRightForYou.htm
• Food and Drug Administration – http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/CDRHHHC/brochure-checklist.html
• National Institutes of Health - http://www.nih.gov
• Virginia Department of Health - http://www.vdh.state.va.us
• World Health Organization - http://www.who.int/en

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• list health organizations (FDA,WHO, NIH, CDC, etc.) and describe their responsibilities.
• explain the role members of health organizations have in the international health community.
• describe a moment in history where action by one of these health organizations resulted in local, state, or global health improvements.
• chart the effects of a specific health intervention on the status of a community.
• illustrate health organizations by their mission and the health areas they focus on and create a poster, drawing, or computer generated display.
• research music lyrics which describe health conditions, diseases, or epidemics.
• identify countries that receive assistance from the WHO, NIH, CDC, and others to eliminate life threatening health conditions and diseases.
• create a fictitious product for approval by the FDA.
• identify languages of countries and some terms they use to describe illnesses.

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