Activity
1) As students enter the room, pass back their homework
from the Detection Detective lesson.
2) Tell students that they will be using these worksheets
to help them be a technician in an important medical
case.
3) Play the segment of the video and have them take
notes about what is happening.
4) Give the students an opportunity to voice questions
that the segment brought up, and have them discuss
these questions as a group.
5) Play the segment one more time.
6) Students must then use their worksheets to help
them write a recommendation for imaging methods
to help with
diagnosis. They may decide on more than one
method, but must back up their decision with
reasons
why that method
would be helpful to determine what is wrong
with the patient. Creativity is encouraged where
physical
principles
leave off.
7) Students must also identify questions that
they have regarding their recommendations.
Do they need
more information?
How would they get this information?
8) As a group, students will decide what
the next step should be for the patient
and why.
The teacher
(or
an interested student) will act as a secretary,
writing ideas on the board. This should
take no more than
15 minutes. Begin by having students identify
the physical
principles they considered in making their
recommendation and why. **this is a very
important part!**
9) If a consensus is reached, and especially if not, have students generate further
questions they
would
like the answers to. These can be either
for the patients or general questions
about techniques/methods
and should
also be recorded on the board.
10) Students will then watch what the
doctors did in the ensuing segment.
11)
As a group, students will spend 5-10 minutes discussing
how their
recommendation(s) compared
with those in
the television series and reasons
why it may have been different.
Encourage students to think outside
the
box- are some methods more expensive?
Are there
mitigating factors
that were not considered in the classroom?
Do they
think that they are right or that
the doctors on the show are
right?
12)
Have students close by writing a response to the activity
in their
science
notebooks.
Homework
Some of the
writing can be assigned as homework, as also can be the more
detailed descriptions. You can also give the students a second
segment of the show and have them identify all the imaging
techniques/physical principles they see used.
Extensions
There are ample opportunities to extend this activity, either by adding new
segments, or following the diagnosis of one patient. Use your discretion
to maximize the time use.
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