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★★★★★ Get This informative communicable and non-communicable unit!This Health unit will make teaching about diseases engaging and impacting!
Students LOVE the lessons and CARD GAMES, the art projects, and the interactive activities, and communicable disease information is more important now than ever!
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Now includes student docs for print in the classroom AND ONLINE ON GOOGLE DRIVE!
- Includes 50 Google Slides of student worksheets and handouts
- Includes 9 Google Forms, including final assessment and Covid-19 timeline!
- If you upload this unit’s included PowerPoint and convert it to Google Slides; then voice-over audio teacher instructions, you can send audio lessons home with the unit Google Docs for a FULLY INDEPENDENT STUDY UNIT!
- 10 High School lessons AND 8 Middle School lessons*
- Transmission, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of many diseases.
- Includes my two interactive “Communicable” and “Non-Communicable Diseases Card Games!”
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*NEWLY ADDED* Coronavirus (COV-19) Lesson UPDATED 2021. ★NOW ALSO ON GOOGLE SLIDES!★ Students interact with a timeline of events to help understand the spread and impact of the devastating (COVID-19) coronavirus impacting our world today.
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-ALL FUTURE UPDATES FOR LIFE ARE INCLUDED!! All new lessons, activities, and any changes that I create for this resource are FREE!! Simply go to your “My Purchases” folder and download anytime!
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This Resource Meets State, National, and Common Core Standards:
- Meet all 8 National Standards
- Meets 10 State Standards
- Meet 11 of 20 Common Core Standards
-This resource is taken directly from my Full Semester/Year High School Health Curriculum, and my Middle/Junior High School Health Curriculum, which are both #1 Best-Selling Health Curriculums on TPT!
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HIGH SCHOOL UNIT and MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAMS are BOTH INCLUDED*:
HIGH SCHOOL 2-WEEK DISEASES UNIT*:
★ 106 pages of step-by-step teacher directions
★ A 116-Slide PowerPoint that walks you through the lessons
★ 30 Documents
★ Learning Targets
- Explanation
- Printable posters for each lesson
- “Success Criteria Check-Off Sheet” for students to copy target at beginning of class, and answer questions at the end of class
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This is a complete 2-week Disease Unit. Lessons Include:
Day 1 and 2: Understanding Communicable Diseases
-Pathogens, How they’re Spread, and How the Immune System Fights Them
-Bacteria, Virus, Fungus, and Parasites
-Various Videos
-FUN! “Interactive Communicable Diseases Activity“
-“Disease and Prevention Chart”
–FUN! “Communicable Diseases Card Game”
-“Communicable Diseases Worksheet”
Day 3 and 4: Coronavirus Lesson (UPDATED 8/2021)
This resource stays relevant as it’s super easy to add events to the timeline and use!
-Step-by-step Teacher Directions
-PowerPoint will walk you through the lesson. Uses information from the Center for Disease Control and other organizations.
-Events Timeline included: Show your students how quickly this virus has spread across the world, how people become infected, what the symptoms are; and most importantly, the ways they can protect themselves from getting this virus.
-“Interactive Worksheet” Help students to process events that have unfolded since the outbreak began, and also enable them to empathize with the many people this virus has affected. Easily editable so you can keep on top of changing events.
-“Emojis Cut Out Sheet” are included! ★NOW ALSO ON GOOGLE SLIDES!★
All that’s needed is glue, scissors, and a printer with paper!
Day 5 and 6: Understanding Non-Communicable Diseases
-World Non-Communicable Diseases Stats
-Various Video
-Top 4 Non-Communicable Diseases in the U.S.
–FUN! “Non-Communicable Diseases Interactive Folding Heart”
-“Ways to Prevent NCD Handout”
-Online “Personal Risk Assessment Tool”
-FUN! “Non-Communicable Diseases King’s Corner” Card Game
-“Non-Communicable Diseases Worksheet”
Day 7: Cancer Filp-Open Posters
-Understanding Cancer -Types of Cancer
-7 Warning Signs
-Various Videos
-Skin Cancer
-Tanning Bed Dangers
-Genetic Testing
-Screening Tests
Day 8: “Selfie Get Well Cards” (Disease Prevention)
-Fun Art Project!
Day 9: Choose From-
-Diseases Research
-“Community Health Public Service Announcement Posters”
-“Health Career Research Project”
Day 10: Diseases Unit Assessment
-“Diseases Unit Assessment and Key
-Choice of 5 other Different Quizzes
-Fun Kahoot Links
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MIDDLE/JR. HIGH SCHOOL DISEASES UNIT*: These 3 programs are sequential, so use one program or use all 3!
LEVEL 1:
Day 1:
-Understanding Communicable Diseases
-Pathogens
-Immune Systems
-Videos
-“Interactive Communicable Diseases Activity“ with “Disease and Prevention Chart”
Day 2:
-“Communicable Diseases Card Game” with “Communicable Diseases Worksheet”
Day 3 + 4:
“Selfie Get Well Cards” (Disease Prevention)
LEVEL 2:
Day 1:
-CANCER Information and Art Project
Day 2:
-Complete Art Project –
-Cancer Video
-“Family Medical History Homework”
-Optional: “Diseases Research Project Homework
LEVEL 3:
Day 1:
-Understanding Non-Communicable Diseases
-World Non-Communicable Diseases Stats
-Video
Top Four Non-Communicable Diseases in the U.S.
-“Non-Communicable Diseases Interactive Heart” using “Ways to Prevent NCD Handout”
Day 2:
-Online “Personal Risk Assessment Tool”
-“Non-Communicable Diseases King’s Corner” Card Game
-“Non-Communicable Diseases Worksheet”
*The 3 grade levels of Middle/Jr. High School Diseases lessons are sequential within the middle level and do not repeat activities; but there is overlap between the middle and high school level lessons!
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THIS UNIT AND ITS MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED IN MY “THE HIGH SCHOOL and MIDDLE/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH CURRICULUMS.”
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-Each purchase is intended for single use only. Purchases are non-transferable, and should not be shared with others.
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Mrs. S.
Health Education Today, Inc.
Master of Education
National Board Certified Health Teacher
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