Health

Investigating: HEALTH

Discuss and analyze health, modern and traditional medicine, including key vocabulary and concepts.

Remedies........ Needles....... cure
treatments...... claims ......... prevent
ailments........ longevity .... inhabitants
(part 1 vocabulary on p.133 and part 2 on p.141)

-video of nutrition and traditional foods
-various readings (reading p. 133 & p. 142)

Culminating Activites; Students will design and create a presentation on a topic related to traditional medicine.
Students will also write a paper to accompany their power point presentation.
There will be two vocabulary quizzes (part 1 and part 2)

Traditional Treatments
-Using a vocabulary chart (writing p. 111)
-write a topic sentence for your paper and presentation
-create a Mind Map organizer
-watch and discuss a video about acupuncture

Part 2
advice.....decisions
bacteria..... birth defects.......damage
engineering.......genes....geneticists
parasites......patients
dishonest....fraudulent