Unit of Inquiry Assignment - Who We Are

 

Central Idea

Cultural and environmental factors affect the human body

Lines of Inquiry

§  Different global/cultural lifestyles impact on human body systems

§  The human body has many systems

§  Global health is a local responsibility

 

Final Task

 

Choose a developing country and identify a health issue that the country has.

Inquire into the affects of the health issue on the population of the country and what the reasons are for this health problem.

After identifying the health issue create a campaign/project that will help to inform the population of that country about that health issue and ways it can be prevented.

 

Further information

This is a 2 part assignment where you need to present 2 pieces of work to complete the task.

The first part is the fact page. It needs to be A4 in length. This means it should fit on an A4 piece of paper but it can done in different forms like prezi, web page, power point etc.

On your fact page things that you can include are:

Name of country

Capital City

Population of country

Continent the country is in

Other health facts that are important for your health issue.

Brief country history (this may help when identifying your health issue.)

 

Also for your fact page you need to include some paragraphs about the health issue in your country.

What is the health issue?

How does it affect the population?

Who in the population is at risk?

Is there anything being done about the health issue.

 

The second part is the campaign/project that you create to help inform the population of your country of the health issue and how they can improve their health. This can take many forms but needs to clearly connect to your countries health issue.

 

You will have until next Tuesday (17th March) to complete the task and have it in by the close of business. This will give you 5 hours of class time to work on the task.

 

Remember to ask for help and use your time wisely.