Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.1D Grade 12 CPI 4

 

Standard: 2.1 - Wellness

 

Strand: D - Diseases and Health Conditions

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 -  The student will investigate and assess local, state, national, and international public health efforts.    

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        MAKING AN APPOINTMENT - Ask a volunteer to demonstrate how to make an appointment for some kind of service (e.g., a dentist appointment). Discuss the volunteer’s presentation and allow other students to perform their own version. Ask: “What advice do you have for someone who’s never made an appointment before?” Use the “Tuning In” cards from an earlier activity to model situations that require setting an appointment.
(The teacher plays the part of the person receiving the call.) Place chairs back to back so the players can hear but not see each other. After each role-play, ask the class to evaluate the phone conversation. Ask students: “What qualities do you expect in a person working in such an agency? Why did the person on the phone respond the way he/she did? Did the person meet the caller’s needs? Would you recommend the agency to your friends? How did you feel during and after the phone call?”

Variation: Many areas have teen hot lines. Invite a supervisor and several students who work the hotlines to address the class about their training and experiences.

Variation: Take a field trip to a health services provider (e.g., a reproductive clinic, a mother-baby clinic, a college health center, a family health center). Before the visit, students develop a short list of questions for the facility’s staff. (Be advised: Interviewing clients may not be allowed.) Students write a reaction to the visit in their journal.