health fair packet revised 10-2012

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HEALTH FAIR PROJECT

Health I

Irondale High School

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All students in Health I will complete a Health Fair Project (In-

depth Study). This project is worth 15% of the students grade.

Most of the research will be done on your owntime.


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HEALTH FAIR CHECKLIST

Student name________________________ Hour_____ Topic_________________________

I. HEALTH FAIR PACKET: Name and topic clearly marked_____

Completed copy (Sloppy Copy) (5 pts)_____

II. WEBSITE: Interconnections Chart (10 pts)_____

General Influences Chart (10 pts)_____

Essential Questions (25 pts)_____

Works Cited (10 pts)___

Organizations (5 pts)_____

Interview (10 pts)_____

Relationship to Teens (10 pts)_____

Interactive Activity: (10 pts)_____

-5 question poll using PollDaddy_____

-Interactive game using custom html & iframe code_____ Quality Website Criteria May 25th: (5 pts)_____

-Home/title page with topic, name, teacher, and hour clearly marked

-Separate page for each health fair component

-Easy to read; Information is laid out appropriately; Bullet points used

-Pictures, graphs, charts, slide shows, videos used to add depth and interest to website

TOTAL POINTS (100) ____/100

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HEALTH FAIR DUE DATES

The items below should be completed by the beginning of class on the listed dates. These items will be

reviewed by your teacher on that day. If you have not completed the listed task by the given date, yourteacher will not have any work to give you feedback on. Your final health fair website project will be

due on: DUE DATE:_________________________Your project is due for full credit on this day. Your project will drop to 50% credit if late. After 2

days, the project will drop to 0 points.

Oct 17th: Website template created and published

Interconnections and General Influences Chart Published

Interactive Activities Published

Nov 9th: Essential Questions and Works Cited Published

Dec 5th

: Organizations and Interview PublishedDec 21st: Relationship to Teens Published

Jan 16th: Final Project Presentations and Peer Evaluations


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INTERCONNECTION CHART

Directions: Find a connection between the Center for Disease Controls health priority areas and your health fair

topic. Describe how your health fair topic relates to THREE health priority areas (one fact for each category).YOU MUST CITE YOUR SOURCEBE SPECIFIC (book title, web site address, newspaper, journal, magazine, etc)

HEALTH FAIR TOPIC:_____________________________

CDC Health Priority Area How is the listed health priority area

connected to your topic? Cite your sourceTobacco use

Nicotine

Smoking

Chew, snuff

Cigarette

Source:

Alcohol and other drug use

Drinking Alcoholism

Drug addiction

All illegal drugs

All medicationSource:

Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries

and violence

Car accidents

Reckless behavior

Homicide/murder

Self-harm behaviors

Gang violence/bullying Source:

Unhealthy dietary behaviors High fat/cholesterol diets

High sodium

Eating disorders

Over eating/Binge eating

Source:Inadequate physical activity

Sedentary

Inactive

Lack of exercise (exercise)

Physical activity

Source:

Sexual behaviors that may result in HIV infection,

other sexually transmitted diseases, and unintended

pregnancies

HIV/AIDS

STIs/STDs

Premature birth

Birth defects

Source:

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GENERAL INFLUENCES CHART

Directions: Determine how the General Influences listed below influence or connect with your health fair topic

in regards to health maintenance and disease prevention decisions. Please record ONE response for EACH

category. Write your response in a complete sentence.YOU MUST CITE YOUR SOURCEBE SPECIFIC (book title, web site address, newspaper, journal, magazine, etc)

HEALTH FAIR TOPIC:_____________________________

General Influences

Media: Write a specific example of how your topic is influenced by media

Media category (e.g. magazines, newspapers, billboards, advertising, TV, radio, videos,

films, etc) Choose one category :_________________________

Source:

Technological or medical advances: Write a specific example of how your topic is

influenced by technological or medical advances.

Technology/Medical Advancement category ((e.g. computer, internet, research, medicine,

surgical/medical procedures, etc) Choose one category:_________________________

Source:Culture or Populations: Write a specific example of how your topic is influenced by

different cultures or populations.

Culture or population (e.g. your topic and different groups of peoplemen, women,

children, teenagers, elderly, etc)Choose one culture or population:___________________

Source:

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1. List your topic:___________________________________________________

2. Create a list of5 essential questions about this topic. These questions are the main criteria for yourproject. What is an essential question?

o Essential Questions are broad based questions that CANT be answered with a yes or no.

o Essential Questions should be appropriate for your target audience.

o Essential Questions should teach your audience something new and in-depth

o Essential Questions may start with who, what, when, where, how, why

o Essential Questions are similar to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about your topic (You can Google

search this)

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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS GRADING CRITERIA: In order to get 5 points for each of your

essential questions, you must meet the following criteria.(Ask yourself the following questions about EACH of your essential questions)

Criteria1. Questions are audience specific and broad based (Cant be answered with a yes or no)(Is this essential question audience specific and broad? Cant be answered with a yes or no?)

2. More than one source is used to answer each essential question.(Did I use more than one source (from my works cited) to answer this essential question?)

3. Information is in-depth and teaches the target audience something new.Is my information in-depth? Does this information teach my audience something new?

4. Information is cited and sources documented on works cited.(Did I cite my information properly? Did I include my source on my works cited?)

5. Appropriate pictures, charts, graphs, videos, slide shows, etc are used in answering the essential

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Narrowing your topic: 25 points


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questions.(Did I use appropriate pictures, charts, graphs, videos, etc when answering my essential questions?)

Internet (Author last name, First name OR organization name. Document title. Date of Internet publication.Date of access. .minimum 2 sources

Source 1:_________________________________________________________

Source 2:_________________________________________________________

Reflect on the following questions while doing research on the internet:

Who is posting the information?

Who is paying for the web site?

What are the credentials (authors training, experience, and title)?

When was the information last updated?

How well are the claims supported (are facts cited and backed up by research

and/or a credible organization)?

Book(Author last name, first names. Title. City: Publisher, date.) OrEncyclopedia (Title. Name of reference.

Date); DO NOT USE WIKEPEDIA AS A SOURCE minimum 1 source

Source 3:_________________________________________________________

Magazine, newspaper ( Author last name, first name. Title. Name of magazine. Date: pages.); An article from

online will not have page numbers.Minimum 1 source

Source 4:_________________________________________________________

Interview (last name, first name. Title, place of business, phone number or web address, date of interview.)

minimum 1 source

Source 5:__________________________________________________________

Suggested Websites

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ http://cdc.gov/http://www.health.state.mn.us/ http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome

http://www.fda.gov/ http://healthfinder.gov/http://kidshealth.org/teen/ http://www.nih.gov/http://www.nida.nih.gov/nidahome.html http://teenhealthfx.com/

http://health.discovery.com/

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WORKS CITED: What sources did you use to answer your 5 essential questionsfor your project? What sources did you use in your relationship to teens? You

must list a minimum of 5 sources. Use easybib.com to help put together your

works cited in MLA format.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/http://cdc.gov/http://www.health.state.mn.us/http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahomehttp://www.fda.gov/http://healthfinder.gov/http://kidshealth.org/teen/http://www.nih.gov/http://www.nida.nih.gov/nidahome.htmlhttp://teenhealthfx.com/http://health.discovery.com/http://health.discovery.com/http://teenhealthfx.com/http://www.nida.nih.gov/nidahome.htmlhttp://www.nih.gov/http://kidshealth.org/teen/http://healthfinder.gov/http://www.fda.gov/http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahomehttp://www.health.state.mn.us/http://cdc.gov/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/


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Total of 5 sources minimum

*REMINDER: Make sure to put your works cited in MLA format.

This handout provides an example of a Works Cited page in MLA 2009 format.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

Title Works Cited is centered

List is alphabetized by authors last names (or by title when a work has no author).

First line of each entry is at the left margin; extra lines are indented 12''.

Double spaced

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Works Cited

Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. Clinton on Climate Change.New York Times. New York

Times, May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009.

Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet."New York Times. New York Times, 22 May

2007. Web. 25 May 2009.

GlobalWarming.org. Cooler Heads Coalition, 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.

Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability."

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): 27-36. Print.

Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. New York:

Springer, 2005. Print

Milken, Michael, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Daniel Kahneman. "On Global Warming and

Financial Imbalances."New Perspectives Quarterly 23.4 (2006): 63. Print.

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Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming."American

Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34. Print.

Uzawa, Hirofumi.Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (healthfinder.gov):

1. Name_____________________________________________________

Address____________________________________________________

Phone Number_______________________________________________Web Site____________________________________________________

2. Name_____________________________________________________Address____________________________________________________

Phone Number_______________________________________________

Web Site____________________________________________________

3. Name_____________________________________________________

Address____________________________________________________


1.Name_____________________________________________________

Address____________________________________________________Phone Number_______________________________________________

Web Site____________________________________________________

2. Name_____________________________________________________

Address____________________________________________________


3. Name_____________________________________________________

Address____________________________________________________

Phone Number_______________________________________________

Web Site____________________________________________________

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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS/RESOURCES (yellow pages; Dex online): Local organizations

are places you could go to in your community to get information or assistance (school resources,hospitals, clinics, health agencies, etc


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Interview candidate criteria:

1-NOT a family member_____

2-Expert in the field (credentials; work history; etc)_____

3-Must have knowledge of the specific topic youre working on_____

Brainstorm a list of health professionals that might be experts in your area; Think about the local community

including school resources that you can interview. Ask your parents for help. BE RESOURCEFUL!!!!

_________________________________________________________________________________Interview candidate information:

Name________________________________Credentials/Title_____________________

Work phone number____________________e-mail address_______________________

Candidates employer______________________Work address_________________________

How did you conduct this interview? (phone, face-to-face, e-mail)_______________________

Start by asking questions about their profession:

Can you please tell me about your job?

Why did you choose this career?

What kind of degree did you need for this job?

What should teens know about this topic?

Continue with questions about your topic. Create a list of 10 potential questions to ask your interviewee and

narrow it down to 5 or 6 for the actual interview.

1._____________________________________________________________?

2.______________________________________________________________?

3.______________________________________________________________?

4.______________________________________________________________?

5._______________________________________________________________?

6._______________________________________________________________?

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INTERVIEW: Interview one person who has knowledge of your health topic.


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7._______________________________________________________________?

8._______________________________________________________________?

9.________________________________________________________________?

10._______________________________________________________________?

SLOPPY COPY:

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RELATIONSHIP TO TEENS: Include a paragraph (minimum of 7 sentences)detailing how your topic relates to teens. Include information that you have

collected from your research. You must include a minimum of TWO cited facts

using MLA format (In-text parenthetical citation). THIS PORTION MUST BEWRITTEN IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Please write your rough draft in the space

below.

TIP: Check out the following website for how to properly use parenthetical

MLA format in text. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
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I. Log on to http://students.weebly.com

II. Enter yourusername_______________________ and password_______________________*Your teacher will provide you with your username and password*DO NOT create your own Weebly websitestudents will not be given credit for a website that is created

outside the teachers Weebly Course Page

III. Start editing your website:

Set up yourpages (pages tab):

o Home (topic, name, hour included)_____

o Interconnections Chart (Embed this document)_____

o General Influences Chart (Embed this document)_____

o Essential questions _____

o Organizations _____

o Interview_____

o Relationship to Teens_____

o Interactive Activities_____

*SEE DIRECTIONS ON THE NEXT PAGE FOR INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES.

5 question poll using PollDaddy_____

Interactive Game using custom html & iframe code_____

o Works Cited (Embed this document) _____

Create yourdesign (design tab)

As you add information to your pages, you will be choosing several elements (elements tab). There is a

great help section for when you get stuck.

III. PUBLISH your website every time you update your website. If you dont publish your website, theteacher cant view it and help you.

Published website: ________________________________________________________

Use this format: Firstnamelastnamehour.weebly.com (Example: heidishah5.weebly.com)

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CREATE YOUR WEEBLY WEBSITE:
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Poll:1. Click on the Elements tab at the top of the screen.2. Click on the More tab in the left hand column.

3. Under the More tab click and drag the Online Poll, polldaddy application down to the

spot on the page you would like the poll to appear.4. After dragging the poll down onto the page, click on the poll and an edit box will appear at the

top of the page.

5. Click Edit Poll.6. To create a new poll, click on Create New Poll. When you have created a new poll you

must create a question for that poll. You are required to have a minimum of 5 different

questions. On the right hand side of the edit page there is an options menu. If you choose, you

can set up the question exactly how you want it with the answers being multiple choice,randomized, etc.

7. When you have finished designing the question, click the Save Poll button.

8. The next option will be designing the poll. You can use any of the PollDaddy Style options or

you can design your own.9. When you have finished designing the poll, click Save Poll.

10. When you have finished editing and saving the entire poll click Add to page. The polshould appear on the page. You can move the poll wherever you want.

iFrame/Interactive Game/Quiz : To embed or import an interactive game from a websiteor embed a video, you will need an iFrame HTML code.

1. To embed a website, quiz or video click on the Elements tab at the top of the screen.2. Click on the Basic tab in the left hand column.

3. Under the Basic tab click and drag the Custom HTML application down onto the page

that you want it to go on.4. Once you have dragged the application down, inside the text box it will say Click to set

custom HTML.

5. Click in the text box and highlight that whole phrase and delete it. Type the iFrame code inthat box.

iFrame Code:

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY: Include both a 5 question poll and an interactive game for this

portion of your health fair project.

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Example:

6. When you have completed typing in the iFrame code, click anywhere outside of the text boxand the website or video that you have embedded should appear.

NOTE: To delete an element, simply place the cursor over the text box of that element and

click the RED X in the upper right hand corner. It will ask you DELETE THIS ELEMENT?Click Yes, delete it. or Cancel.

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