Jun 17 2008
WebQuest
QUESTION?
Can you live healthy over the course of a lifetime? As we develop and age over our lifetime our body goes through many changes. Maintaining a consistent healthy lifestyle throughout these changes is a critical component of each person’s longevity? Can you make choices during your life that will provide an opportunity at a healthy life? Are there choices you make at each stage of life that may be critical to your own longevity?
GOALS!
Your goal is to find THREE illnesses or diseases that may affect YOU in the later stages of life and prescribe a lifestyle (diet and exercise) that you can partake in NOW to be healthy later.
TASK!
In your search for THREE illnesses or diseases that may affect you later in life you must consider many variables. These variables include but are not limited to family history, dietary choices, amount of activity in lifestyle, or bad habits with harmful side effects. Once you have identified your three illnesses or diseases I then want to know what you can do NOW to help prevent them. Explain in detail a lifestyle that would assist you in preventing these illnesses or diseases including dietary choices and exercise. When thinking about diet choices and exercise think about your regular eating habits and amount and type of exercise that you partake in. Will these choices your making now have long term bad effects or must you think about making a lifestyle change NOW to be healthy later? Can you continue with the same type of exercise activities or should you learn lifetime wellness now? There are many answers and only you can choose what will be right for you!
PROCESS
Start by asking family about any illnesses or diseases that seem to occur in a high percentage of your relatives. Then research at such places as www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/Alphalist.html for a starting point of a large number of diseases. If you do not find what you are looking for here then search www.google.com and look for reliable medical sites such as those of government agencies, medical centers or universities. After choosing your three diseases or illnesses then research diets and exercises/activities that will help prevent them. Turn in a complete list and healthy lifestyle maintenance plan along with a bibliography of the websites that you received your information from.
EVALUATION
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Category |
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1 |
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Illness or Disease |
Student lists and explains three diseases or illnesses and states how they chose what they did to research |
Student lists and explains at least two illnesses or diseases and states why they chose to research at least one of them |
Student lists and explains at least one illness or disease and states why they chose the illness or disease to research
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Causes |
Student lists at least three possible causes for all three illnesses or diseases chosen to research |
Student lists at least three possible causes for two of the illnesses or diseases chosen to research |
Student lists at least three possible causes for one illness or disease chosen to research |
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Preventive Measures via Diet
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Student explains a preventive balanced diet for one of the three illnesses or diseases chosen to research |
Student provides examples of preventive foods for one illness or disease chosen to research |
Student fails to provide any examples of preventive foods for one illness or disease chosen to research |
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Preventative Measures via Exercise or Activity |
Student explains at least two activities or exercise choices that can be performed over a lifetime and will assist in preventing at least one illness or disease chosen to research |
Student lists at least two activities or exercises choices that can be performed over a lifetime and will assist in preventing at least one illness or disease chosen to research
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Student fails to provide any activities or exercises that can be performed over a lifetime and assist in preventing at least one illness or disease chosen to research |
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References |
Student lists at least three sites supporting illness or disease and three sites supporting diet and exercise/activity |
Student lists at least two sites supporting illness or disease and two sites supporting diet and exercise/activity |
Student lists one site supporting illness or disease and one site supporting diet and exercise/activity |
CONCLUSION
There are many variables that will affect you over your lifetime. Diet and exercise will play a great role in the prevention of and reduce of risk to many illnesses and diseases. Besides illnesses and diseases what other types of activities or health problems may potentially harm you during your life. Can the food we eat hurt us? Are lifetime activities beneficial enough to prevent health problems associated with sedentary lifestyles? Or should you just live your life however you want because in the end we all die of something? These are some of the questions that you must consider as you continue within your life cycle.
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