Community and Health - Medical Practitioner

"Young Doctors" are Closing the Gap! How can you spread the word?

Primary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. In groups of 3 - 5 students, you are to read and listen to the following content keeping in mind that you will be answering the questions: "Malpa: What is it? How does it work?"

You are to use the Jigsaw Strategy to obtain the information that you require.

Malpa	ABC RN Breakfast 17 March 2017: Audio file
Glue ear and Indigenous health - ABC - Ockham's Razor: Audio file	SMH 27 June 2015

2.  To obtain some order to your knowledge from the above information sources, fill out the Retrieval Chart Strategy by printing out the Word doc.

3. With a partner, discuss the following questions:

• What do you think and feel about this program?
• Can students aged 9 - 12 be effective young doctors?
• Are they closing the gap between Indigenous health and non-Indigenous health?
• Should it be in all primary schools across Australia?

4. You are to sell this program to the Government as a way of closing the gap and also showing that young people to have the knowledge and responsibility of being a young doctor.

You are to create social media campaign to show Commonwealth Ministers the effectiveness of this program. You might also like to create a presentation or infographic to go into your social media campaign using the following: 

Prezi

Canva Inforgraphic Creator

Helping out the Heart Foundation

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy 

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

1. The Heart Foundation has some interesting material on their website about "Children and Heart Disease". You are to convert this text heavy page into a Powtoon that both primary and middle school students [and their parents] understand.

2. Read the following Heart Foundation webpage and take notes:

3. Watch the following TED-Ed video about the heart as a guide to the standard you are to create.

How the heart actually pumps blood - Edmond Hui
https://youtu.be/ruM4Xxhx32U

4. Work out your storyboard - how will you organise the information on the Heart Foundation webpage?

5. Using Powtoon, create an animation about Children and Heart Disease.

6. Present to your class.

Websites, Games & Apps

Exploring the Health System (USA) - [Not a WebQuest but a Research Assignment] Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
Drugs and their effects on the body [Not a WebQuest - but a Worksheet] Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
Neuroscience for Kids Primary Middle Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

The Human Body App Primary Middle  Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy COST: $2.99 DEVELOPER: Tinybop Inc.