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The Heart

**Topic:** The Heart **Year Level:** 8 **Group Members:** Jessica Hart and Andrew Waddell **Duration:** 6-7 weeks media type="custom" key="18373948"

**Healthy Heart Teacher information** Healthy Heart resources
 * Healthy Heart Students task**

Introduction

The heart is a beating muscle that pumps blood continually to the rest of the body via a network of vessels. Understanding how the heart works and how specific lifestyle choices impact the heart, is important for students and society, particularly when the increase in heart, stroke and vascular conditions has increased by 18.2% over the last decade due to a variety of unhealthy lifestyle habits. By conveying to students the importance of healthy lifestyle choices, we are enabling them to become more aware of how there decisions impact their lives. By enabling students to create their own understanding and presenting there findings to others, they are subconsciously understanding the task at a deeper level. The task has been set for students to work on for approximately 6 to 7 weeks but this time frame can change depending on your students ability.We will be assessing their knowledge and skills in technology processes as well as what they have learned overall about the heart.

Task Overview

The task that we have set out explores the understanding of the heart. The main idea of the task is that students are approached by the heart foundation and are asked to create a Facebook page that demonstrates how lifestyle choices affect the heart. Students are able to decide on how they wish to present their video, however some suggestions could be a song, animation or a poem. According to the task plan (which can be found on out teacher resources page), the suggested duration of the task should be one hour for six to seven weeks (depending on the class progress). Over the weeks students will establish groups and discuss their prior knowledge of the heart and discuss ideas. They will also research, plan, create over the weeks and finally present their video in the last week for evaluation.