Activities: Health Science

Choose activities from below to work on during days 3-6 of this rotation. Make sure to record the work you've completed in your daily tracker, and turn in the required assignments using the Google Form. You will continue to work on these activities through all four days, so you will not be "finished" working on activities. When you finish one activity, begin another.

Check out the blood pressure cuff and thermometer from Mrs. B. Create a spreadsheet and check your own BP and temperature, record your results. Find at least five volunteers in your class to check theirs. Record the results.

Research normal blood pressure and temperatures and compare them to what you found in your class.

Complete the Google Form when you finish the research.

Health Science Career Investigations Choice Board

Select activities from this Choice Board to complete. Turn in a Google Form for each assignment you've completed from the board.

Help your family plan a

week of healthy, well-balanced meals. Write the menu in a Google Doc and break down the nutritional values of each meal. Explain why you chose the foods that you did.

Complete the Google Form.

Search for and watch an informative video or find and read an article about a career in this cluster. Complete the Video/Article Summary and the Google Form.

Interview the school

nurse. Write your questions and have them approved, then set up a time to meet with the nurse. Write the interview as a script or as a narrative in a Google Doc.

Complete the Google Form.

ADVANCED:

You must have proven your ability to stay on task as well as maintain a safe work area.

Ask Mrs. B. about checking out the suture kit.

https://suturekit.com/pages/training

Complete the Google Form.

Design and create a safety poster for a job in this career cluster. Use paper or create it digitally. Include at least 5 safety points with detailed information, (including specific dos and don'ts, how to handle equipment, what to do in case of emergencies, etc.), turn it in, complete the Google Form.

Design and create an informational poster for a job in this career cluster or the cluster in general. Use paper or create it digitally. Include at least 10 points with detailed information, turn it in, complete the Google Form.

Get the practice worksheet and a dental mirror and practice using only the mirror to draw the shapes. Don't look at the paper, only the mirror!

On the back, practice writing the alphabet the same way, using the mirror to see the paper.

Then draw a bird the same way!

Turn in the drawing with the Google Form.

Find three companies that are currently hiring in this career cluster. Research the company itself and compare and contrast the three companies. You can do this on a Venn diagram or other graphic organizer. Then explain which company you'd prefer to work for and why. Submit by completing the Google Form.