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QUARTER 4 PROJECTS PACKET:
9th Grade Projects Packet: 4th Quarter
Eugene International High School
Assignments are due the day you have class with your projects teacher. Late assignments will earn reduced credit. Please write all these dates in your planner first thing.
Due Dates
Assignments Page
points possible
Fri. 4/17 A
Mon. 4/20 O
1. Parent/student verification
pg. 4
/10
Tues. 4/21 O
Wed. 4/22 A
2. Topic exploration and country choices
pg. 5
/30
Mon. 4/27 O
Tues. 4/28 A
3. Health Issue Vocabulary/Terms
pg. 8
/30
Fri. 5/1 O
Mon. 5/4 A
4. Human development index information
pg. 9
/35
Tues. 5/12 O
Wed. 5/13 A
5. Current efforts in your Asian state
pg. 13
/30
Mon. 5/18 O
Tues. 5/19 A 6. Map assignment
pg. 17
/35
Wed. 5/20 O
Thurs. 5/21 A
7. Design campaign
• You’ll receive an assignment sheet for this in a couple of weeks.
/20
Wed. 5/27 O
Thurs. 5/28 A
8. Check-in
• Show evidence of your progress towards your final project and presentation
/10
Thurs. 6/4 O
Fri. 6/5 A
9. Final Project Presentation
• This assignment will be handed out in class in a couple of weeks.
• You will present your project in your geography class to fulfill the state requirements for persuasive speech. Your geography teacher will grade the presentation, but the grade will be part of your quarter Projects grade.
/50
Thurs. 6/11 A
Fri. 6/12 O
10. Final Projects Year-End Reflection
• This assignment will be handed out in class close to the due date.
/25
Total Grade /275
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Welcome to Your Final Independent Projects Class for 2008-9
As you know, Eugene International High School’s Projects Class is designed to help you learn the skills that you will need to be a life-long learner and conscious global citizen. Once again, your Projects Advisor will assist you as you work through the Projects Packet by introducing the skills you’ll need to complete your independent study work. As you know, you have a Projects class period built into your schedule. While you will not meet with your Projects Advisor during this time, it is important that you use the time allotted in your schedule to complete your projects assignments.
This packet outlines the 4th quarter of 9th Grade Projects. It contains some of the assignments, due dates, and formatting requirements that will guide your independent study throughout the quarter. Supplemental sheets will be provided for certain assignments as their due dates approach. Please read the packet carefully at the beginning of the quarter, with your parent/guardian, and complete the Parent/Student Verification page. If you have questions about assignments that you cannot find answers to in this packet, remember that you can contact your Projects Advisor by email or during his/her office hours.
The last three quarters, you have explored who you are as individuals in the world, researched extensively one important issue in an African state, and identified personal health issues you and your peers face. The fourth and final projects class will combine these previous quarters and allow you to create a public health campaign designed to target a particular audience in an Asian state of your choice. The project will culminate in a Global Health Awareness day held during the Asian Unit in your Global Geography class.
Below you will find a list of possible topics for your project. These topics will be randomly selected during class. Once you have been assigned a global health issue, your next assignment will be to research and gain an understanding of that issue, and then find an Asian State that is highly impacted by that particular health concern. The rest of the quarter will be spent learning about the issue, your Asian State, and how to develop a public health campaign tailored for the specific population of your chosen state.
List of possible topics:
Alcoholism
Cholera
Influenza and Avian flu
Dengue fever
Dental health
Domestic violence
Drug addiction
Encephalitis
Family Planning
Hepatitis
HIV/AIDS
Malaria
Malnutrition and vitamin deficiency
Maternal Health (reproductive health, childbirth, breastfeeding)
Measles
Polio
STIs
Tuberculosis
Typhoid
Waterborne diseases
Yellow fever
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Assignment # 1: Parent/Student Verification (10 points)
Please read the projects packet and share the information with your parent or guardian. After reviewing the entire packet, sign the verification below.
E.I.H.S. 9th Grade 4th Quarter Projects
Due Date for this form: Friday April 17 (Alpha), Monday April 20 (Omega)
I have reviewed all of the 9th Grade 4th Quarter Projects assignments and requirements outlined in this packet, with my parent or guardian. I understand the scope and nature of the work and the expectations and deadlines. I understand that, in order to receive full credit for assignments, I must meet all the deadlines listed on the first page of this document AND present my final project during the Global Health Awareness Day in Geography class on Thursday 6/4 Omega or Friday 6/5 Alpha. I understand that my grade for this quarter is a final nine-week grade that will go on my transcript.
Signature, E.I.H.S. Student ______________________________ Date: ___________________
E.I.H.S. Student’s Printed name __________________________
I have reviewed all of the 9th Grade 4th Quarter Projects assignments and requirements outlined in this packet, with my student. I understand the scope and nature of the work and the expectations and deadlines. I understand that, in order to receive full credit for assignments, my student must meet all the deadlines listed on the first page of this document AND present his or her final project during the Global Health Awareness Day in Geography class on Thursday 6/4 Omega or Friday 6/5 Alpha. I understand that my student’s grade for this quarter is a final nine-week grade that will go on my transcript.
Signature, Parent/Guardian ______________________________ Date: ___________________
Parent/Guardian’s Printed name __________________________
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Assignment # 2 Exploring Your Health Topic (30 points)
My Topic is __________________
The second assignment is the stage in your project where you will explore your health topic. The first question you should ask yourself is whether your issue is a disease or illness such as Tuberculosis, or is it a health concern such as maternal health or domestic violence. How you approach your public health education plan will be determined by whether you must educate a population on how to avoid a particular disease or whether you will be promoting healthy lifestyles and habits.
Part 1:
The first step for this assignment is to find three reliable and relevant sources of information about your health issue. From those sources, you need to extract 10 significant facts about your issue. These facts would assist someone reading them in understanding the nature of the issue. This list of facts is similar to the “Evidence” section of your historiography-paper that you wrote on your African state for 2nd quarter projects. This assignment should be word-processed, your facts should be numbered, and each properly cited.
Part 2:
This second step for this assignment is to choose the Asian state that will be the setting for your public health campaign.
1. Using the sources provided below, research your health topic and identify three Asian states from the list where this disease or health concern is a serious issue.
2. Write the name of the three states and briefly explain the context of that disease or health concern in that state. Some questions to consider are:
• Whom does this issue affect?
• Is the disease or health campaign wide spread or limited to a certain area?
• If it is a disease, how is it spread?
• If it is a health concern, why is it a problem in that state?
• Give one strong reason this Asian state would be the best location for your health campaign.
3. Rank your three Asian states in order of preference, taking into account available information and significance of the issue to the state.
As you begin your journey, here is a list of the countries in Asia, and a few meaningful links for your perusal. Asia is broken up into four regions. Each is comprised of many nation-states.
States of South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
States of Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Tibet, Viet Nam.
States of East Asia: China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Taiwan.
States of Central Asia: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Research Sites:
Start with a visit to the WHO (World Health Organization) site. It is a portal to many other sites, and is highly respected around the world. Begin with a search for “Asia.”
Visit: http://search.who.int
This should be your first stop, but not your last. The sites below are a few that complement and augment the WHO portal. Note that many groups/agencies actually originate in the areas of your study. They have different voices, and perspectives.
A good place to visit is The University of New South Wales, in Australia. The site offers a country-by-country breakdown of data that will help you in your search.
Visit: http://www.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/sphcmweb.nsf/page/Asia and browse away.
An NGO site that has some interesting articles is the South Asian Public Health Forum. As its name implies, this is a public forum, and as such will come at this topic in a different voice than through government-sponsored sites.
Visit: http://www.saphf.org/ (See list of articles near the bottom.)
A wonderful portal site is APACPH. Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health. If you find yourself moved by this topic/projects assignment, you might enter their Young Voices in Research for Health essay competition. Regardless, this site is easily accessible, and offers links to many sites and articles.
Visit: http://www.apacph.org
South Asian Health Issues, or Sawnet, is a wonderfully accessible site. It features many articles focused on women’s health issues. They state: “This [site] provides pointers to some studies of health issues extracted mostly from Medline that are specifically concerned with South Asians, particularly women…” It is well-arranged, and navigation is a breeze.
Visit: http://www.sawnet.org/health/
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality is a site to visit if you are interested in sexuality, sexual health, and sexual well-being in the region of Asia. There are many links on this site. Of particular note is the “News” link, where you will find many articles on various topics.
For the articles, visit: http://www.tarshi.net/asiasrc/news/newsarticles.asp
For the main site, visit: http://www.tarshi.net/asiasrc/about_resource_centre.asp
Grading for Assignment #2: Exploring Your Health Topic
___/5 Assignment is clearly written and word-processed
Part 1
___/5 At least three sources are correctly cited in MLA format
___/5 At least ten facts about your health issue are included
Part 2
___/15 Three Asian states are chosen and ranked; each one with a brief explanation of the importance of the health issue to that state
___/30 TOTAL
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Assignment #3: Health Issue Vocabulary/Terms (30 points)
Now that you have chosen your health issue and country, the next step to identify the key words related to this issue in the context of where the issue occurs.
Think about how being in the country you’ve chosen affects this health issue. What culturally-bound values and/or behaviors play a role in how this health issue is contracted or treated? How does the geography of the country play a role in how people “get” this disease/health issue? Etc.
Create a vocabulary list of 15 terms and definitions related to your health issue. You will use these words in your public health education plan.
Keeping the following questions in mind when choosing your words. Make sure your list of terms includes words relevant to all the appropriate categories below. For health issues that are to be promoted rather than eliminated (such as maternal health), terms may not fall neatly into the three categories above. Do your best to present a wide range of terms germane to the topic.
1. Infection/Inception
• How do people contract this disease or end up having this health issue?
• What actions/inactions are involved? Are there technical terms for these?
• Where do people encounter this health risk?
• How does the health risk become an actual infection, disease, etc.
2. Pathology/Manifestation
• How does this health issue affect the body?
• What are the symptoms?
• What causes the symptoms?
3. Prevention/Cure
• How can people avoid this health issue?
• What steps are necessary to cure a person of this disease/health issue?
• If the disease has no cure, why is that? What steps are needed to find a cure?
Grading for Assignment #3: Health Issue Vocabulary/Terms
___/5 Assignment is word processed and clearly formatted
___/15 At least 15 words are included and clearly relate to health issue
___/5 The words represent terms for all the categories above.
___/5 In-text citations are included for each definition, and an informal bibliography is included at the end.
___/30 TOTAL
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Name: _________________________________
Assignment # 4 Human Development Statistics (35 points total)
The purpose of this assignment is for you to gather pertinent information about your state and its people in order to determine the most appropriate approach for your public service campaign.
First go to the CIA World Fact Book www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ and find your Asian state. You should be able to find nearly all the information needed here. If you go elsewhere for answers, you MUST provide the source in MLA Format. Please list the information on one line and the source on the other. (1 point each)
1. Official Name of State
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
2. Neighboring States
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
3. Official Language and Number of Other Languages
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
4. Literacy Rate
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
5. Ranking in the Human Development Index
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
6. Physical Size (Land area in Square Miles or Square Kilometers)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
7. Topography and Important Landforms
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
8. Important Bodies of Water and Rivers
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
9. Population
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
10. Population Density (Population divided by area of state)
________________________________________________________________________
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11. Percentage of Population living in Rural Areas (Rural = not living in cities, not urban)
________________________________________________________________________
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12. Life Expectancy (Male and Female)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
13. Fertility Rate (average number of children for each mother)
________________________________________________________________________
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14. Infant Mortality Rate (% of children who die in first year of life)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
15. Percentage of Population living with AIDS (Population with AIDS divided by Total Population)
_________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
16. Doctors or Hospital Beds Per Capita
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
17. Age Structure (example: Cambodia 0-14 years = 32.6%)
________________________________________________________________________
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18. Median Age (example: Cambodia 22 years of age)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
19. Religion
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
20. Number of Airports
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
21. Number of Internet Users
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
22. Number of Radio Stations
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
23. Number of TV Stations
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
24. Does your Asian State have any of these Environmental Issues?
Circle all that apply and name your source here: ______________________________
Deforestation Desertification Shortage of Clean Water
Toxic Waste Pollution Drought Urbanization
25. Is your country landlocked? _____Yes ____No
Now that you have compiled all of the information above, please take a look at the facts and write a short (4-5 sentence) summary of your prospective audience. Think about who your audience will be so that you may choose the most appropriate method of Public Service Outreach (how you are trying to get information out to the public). Your summary should give a broad perspective of your audience, in your chosen country, and should include at least 5 of the facts above. Please write you summary neatly in the space below. (10 points)
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Name: ______________________________
Assignment #5: Current Efforts in Your Asian State (30 points)
Before you plan your own public health education campaign, you need to find out what is already being done in the Asian state to educate their population about this public health issue. What are Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) or other agencies doing to help educate people about this issue? ***Note: research for this assignment needs to reveal education plans – NOT what organizations are doing to cure the disease or support people with the health issue.
Find at least two education campaigns related to your health issue that are currently taking place in the country you’ve chosen. If there are none currently, choose a neighboring country and research the education campaigns there. Then, for each campaign, answer the following questions:
Campaign #1
Campaign Name: _______________________________________________________________
Organization in charge of the campaign: _____________________________________________
Media Involved (Radio, TV, Billboards, Informal Skits, School, Church groups, etc.): Attach a sample, if possible.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why were these forms of media chosen?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Locations where the campaign is being implemented:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why were these locations chosen?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evaluation:
How effective has the campaign been so far? (Provide statistics, facts, etc.)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What about this campaign could be strengthened? (What are comments from people in the country about areas of weakness? What are their ideas of how these could be addressed?)
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Campaign #2
Campaign Name: _______________________________________________________________
Organization in charge of the campaign: _____________________________________________
Media Involved (Radio, TV, Billboards, Informal Skits, School, Church groups, etc.): Attach a sample, if possible.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why were these forms of media chosen?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Locations where the campaign is being implemented:
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why were these locations chosen?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evaluation:
How effective has the campaign been so far? (Provide statistics, facts, etc.)
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What about this campaign could be strengthened? (What are comments from people in the country about areas of weakness? What are their ideas of how these could be addressed?)
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grading for Assignment #5: Current Efforts
___/15 Campaign #1: all questions are clearly and thoroughly answered
___/15 Campaign #2: all questions are clearly and thoroughly answered
___/30 TOTAL
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Assignment # 6: Asian State Map (35 points)
The next step in designing your Health Education Campaign requires that you create a map of your state. How you use your map will greatly depend on your global health topic.
1. Copy the outline map of your Asian State from the Maps-on-File set in the library at your school.
2. All maps must include the following items.
a. The Capital
b. Neighboring States and or Water bodies
c. The Major Landforms such as rivers, mountain ranges, lakes deserts, etc.
d. Major Cities
e. Major Transport Networks (highways, train routes, airports, etc.)
3. Consider your health issue and decide what else needs to be included on your map. If your country has a cholera outbreak, indicate the infected area on the map. If malaria is your issue, elevation might be important to include because certain higher altitudes have no risk of malaria. Really think about what will enhance the map-reader’s understanding of your issue related to your specific state. You should have at least three thoughtful additions to your map.
4. Think about how you will use this map in your plan. For instance you could show the percentage of malaria cases in various parts of the country. Another use of the map could be to show the area you will target with your public information campaign.
5. As with all maps you create, include the major map elements: title, key, scale, compass rose, and name.
Grade for Assignment #6: Country Map
___/5 Map is neatly and carefully made
___/5 Title, key, scale, and compass rose are included
___/10 Capitol, neighboring states and/or water bodies, major landforms, major cities, and major transport networks are included
___/10 At least 3 additions to map are included that relate to health issue
___/35 TOTAL
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