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Introduction:
The most difficult task a parent has is to
raise a healthy, happy child. The purpose is to work on the healthy children
in this course. How do parents and care workers insure the healthy child? The
parent can make strides to provide the healthiest opportunities for the child
before conception. This happens through knowledge as to what happens during
the prenatal period of development for the unborn. One needs to look at the
terms that are associated with birth defects and identify the symptoms of
birth defects.
Task:
Become acquainted with the terms for
environmental and genetic birth defects by reading the text book pages on the
board and doing a search in yahoo.com for the specific birth defect. Type in
the birth defect name, click on the first selection of inside Yahoo! matches,
and then read what the page says about the defect. Here is an example for rubella and cerebral palsy
from a yahoo search. This is a good source to look up terms you are trying to
understand that are medical/disease in nature. 1. Generate simple statements
for term definitions and symptoms to go on your slide. 2. Be sure to look for
graphic to go on your slide.
Here are two sites that offer free and font
graphics:
Animationfactory.com
Fontsandgraphics.com
Or you can go to Google.com, click on the image
tab, type in the type of graphic you'd like to use and there are many choices
here.
Process:
1. Choose the birth defects you will cover in
this project.
2. Look in the index of the text book for
information about the defect. Use the Internet sites suggested to get two
resources for your information. Decide what information will go into your
slide for definitions and symptoms of the birth defect.
3. Choose graphics/photos to go on the page.
Save these to the hard drive in the folder with your presentation.
4. Develop a slide for the presentation. Save
your work. If you don't have enough disk room for the project, come and talk
to the instructor.
Resources:
There are two text books used in this
classroom and several supplemental books. These have some basic information.
Use them first.
The instructor keeps files on birth
defects, you may use these files. If you'd like to check them out, talk to
Mrs. Brook. Use these with the text or other time when you are not on the
computer.
Here are some resources for the Internet.
First go through the web pages listed in the URL resource page. Some students
do not look at these pages in depth and many of these pages are huge and have
information to share when you can find it. Other pages:
Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome
Effects
of Tobacco on Pregnancy
Prenatal Diagnosis
(Including Cystic Fibrosis)
Yahoo
Health: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Yahoo
Health: Spina Bifida
Yahoo
Health: Australia: Spina Bifida
March of Dimes:
STDS, Drugs, Cocaine, Rubella, Cleft Lip, PKU, RH Disease, Sickle Cell,
Tay-Sachs,
Sexually Transmitted
Diseases
Sexually
Transmitted Diseases 2
Effects
of Drugs on Pregnancy
HIV/AIDS:
Information for Pregnant Women
Evaluation:
Your grade will be based on the rubric grade
on the project, the presentation and student production during class
time for each day. Here is the form for the rubric
grade. The class will fill out these forms other student presentations.
Conclusion:
Through this part of the project, I hope
you will think about the
different definitions and symptoms of the
birth defects. Hopefully, this information will help you to develop better
observation skills. Observation skills help when working with children and
the human being.
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