Chronic Illnesses

Introduction

Welcome: Chronic Illnesses

Year level: 6

Curriculum links: Health and Physical Education- Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities (ACPPS058) (ACARA, n.d)

General Capabilities: Literacy, ICT Capability, and Critical and Creative Thinking 

Author: Chloe Riddell

Task

Task: You will work in groups of two or three to research, create an powerpoint on the chronic disease that you have chosen and present the information to the class.

You will have two lessons to do you research and create your powerpoint before you present it to the class. You will only have 3 minutes per group and every team member is required to speak.

It will need to be creative and contain the following information:

1. Symptoms

2. Causes

3. Stastics 

4. Treatments

5. Prevention

Tip: Be creative! Use pictures and colours to make it look presentable.

Process

Step 1: Form a group and choose a chronic illness from the following:

  • Measles 
  • Chicken Pox
  • Influenza 
  • Whooping Cough 
  • Pediculosis
  • Foot and Mouth Disease 
  • Ring Worm
  • Diabetes
  • Mumps
  • Rubella

Step 2: Spend the lessons researching you chosen disease. You can use books and the internet to help you find the information needed. Some useful websites include:

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/chronic-illnes…;

http://conditions.health.qld.gov.au/HealthCondition/Home

http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/head-lice.html

Step 3: Create your powerpoint presentation. Remember to include the symptoms, causes, treatment, prevetention and statistics.

Step 4: Show the class what you have found, speakingfor up to 3 minutes long. Remember, every team member needs to be included in the speech. 

Evaluation

 

You will be marked against the following rubric:

  /15

Excellent 4-5

Satisfactory 2-3

Unsatisfactory 0-1

Information in the PowerPoint slides on a chronic disease.

Included all of the required information on the chosen chronic illness in the PowerPoint slides.

Included some of the required information on the chosen chronic illness in the PowerPoint slides.

Included little or no information about the chronic disease chosen in the PowerPoint slides.

Use of images used in the presentation

Uses at least four images throughout the presentation.

Uses two or three images throughout the presentation.

Uses very little or no images throughout the PowerPoint presentation.

The speech

All members of the team are a part of the speech. The presentation runs for a maimum of 3 minutes.

All members  of the team members speak in the presentation. The presentation runs overtime by up to a minute.

One or two of the team members are a part of the speech. The presentation runs over time by at least 61 seconds. 

Conclusion

To conclude this lesson we will have a class discussion on some of the strategies we can use to prevent illness. So make sure you are all listening to each others presentations to get some ideas.