HUMAN ANATOMY
UNIT PROJECT
Human anatomy is one of my
favorite topics. It’s me, it’s you, it’s all of us in this room (well, mostly
anyway). One of my goals as a biology teacher is to help you get to a point
where you can talk to a doctor and have some idea what they are saying. With
that in mind, this unit we will be working on a unit project.
Each student will be
creating a “Student/Physician’s Desk Reference”. We will be collecting material
throughout the unit on different diseases and conditions for each of the body
systems that we cover. At the end of the unit, each of you will put this
information together into one resource that can be used to “diagnose” people
with different symptoms. Time allowing, we will actually get a chance to see if
they work. No, I’m not going to bring in actual sick people. They’ll be acting.
How this will work: Each organ system will have a homework assignment
where you will have to collect information on different diseases and conditions
common to that system. For each disease you should research:
I will be checking these
homeworks as well as collecting and grading the final project so, this is not
something you can just wait ‘til the last minute to do.
Check out the rubric I will be using here
The first organ system we’ll
be covering is the digestive system. Diseases/conditions you could look into
are: