Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Students choose a project and do it.
Objective: To give the students the opportunity to organize a learning project which will further enrich their knowledge of blood circulation, and related concepts.
Activity: Students choose a project from a list prepared by the teacher. They will be required to do research on the chosen topic. Topics: artificial hearts; an essay with drawings, including the story of Barney Clark; the effects of nutrition and exercise on the health of the heart; a written report with appropriate charts; heart diseases and their causes, a written report; dangers to the heart and circulation in some teenage lifestyles, a newspaper article to be published in the school paper; the ten commandments for preventing heart attacks, to be published in the school paper; attending a CPR class and showing their classmates what they have learned; a written report on how to prevent high blood pressure; setting up a free blood pressure-taking booth after they have been instructed by a representative of the American Heart Association, in order to draw attention to this disease. Arrangements for this would have to be coordinated by the teacher.
