1. Unit Overview Unit Title: The Demise of Us? Subject Area: Health Grade Level: 9-12 Higher Order Thinking Skills: Analyzing, Synthesizing, Evaluating Approximate Time Needed: 3-4 weeks, 45 minute lessons, 5 days a week

2. Targeted Content Standards Standard 4: Communication (HE.S.4) Effective communication enhances personal, family, and community health. This standard focuses on how responsible individuals use verbal and Nonverbal skills to develop and maintain healthy personal relationships. The ability to organize and to convey information and feelings is the basis for strengthening interpersonal interactions and reducing or avoiding conflict. Standard 5: Decision Making (HE.S.5) Decision making skills are needed in order to identify, implement and sustain health enhancing behaviors. This standard includes the essential steps needed to make healthy decisions as prescribed in the performance indicators. When applied to health issues, the decision making process enables individuals to collaborate with others to improve quality of life. Standard 6: Goal Setting (HE.S.6) Goal setting skills are essential to help students identify, adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. This standard includes the critical steps needed to achieve both short term and long term health goals. These skills make it possible for individuals to have aspirations and plans for the future.

3. Students will be able to:  Identify the most infectious diseases since the beginning of time until the present in all Continents  Apply what strategies the were used to prevent or eliminate specific diseases in those Continents  Research what Continents are immune to the disease or diseases that had attacked them, and what cures or medicine have those Continents used in the past and present to become safe  Research what diseases have no cure or lack of medicine to fight against disease or diseases in all the Continents  Research what diseases that maybe new or even create a new epidemic  Collaborate in small groups  Analyze and synthesize data with other groups  Predict will disease be the demise of the world or will it be prevented

4. Essential Question: Will disease be the demise of us or will it be prevented? Unit Questions: 1. Where did infectious diseases derive from in the Continents? 2. How were infectious diseases fought off? 3. Why are there still infectious diseases and how does technology play a role in that? Content Questions: 1. How can we as a society let the public aware of infectious diseases? 2. How do we maintain personal healthy relationships when it comes to infectious diseases?

5.  Class will be divided up in to 3 groups  The 1 st group will be assigned to research infectious diseases of North and South America  The 2 nd group will be assigned to research infectious diseases of Africa and Europe  The 3 rd group will be assigned to research infectious diseases of Asia and Australia  All groups will research and collect data of the most effective infectious diseases of their assigned Continents.  All groups will explain in their collected data how the infectious diseases were fought off  Students will also report if there is any new diseases that are a threat to humanity from their assigned Continents. Analyzing and Synthesizing  All groups will collaborate information on a wikispace that the teacher designed for them to trade information about infectious diseases of their assigned continents. Evaluation  All groups with the data collected from their own research, and class research from their wikispace will predict if humanity survives infectious disease and why? Or will disease wipe out the human race and why?

6. Why this project?  This project allows students to gather facts about infectious diseases to get a better understanding of what resources, technology and medicine the world offers to fight off infectious diseases.  Students get the chance to collaborate with others to analyze and synthesize information to formulate a conclusion.  This project is also effective because students use information in the past in able to predict the future. When students research infectious diseases and the cures for or lack of cures, they are able to predict in the future what will happen. In other, word students use critical thinking and evaluation skills.