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= Student Tasks =

This lesson plan requires the students to first set up a website and incorporate two Blogs, refer to the Additional Resources page for guidance.

The Brain
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Students will receive a list of 10 day to day actions. They then have to determine which part of the brain is involved in each individual action. A list of useful websites such as www.brainline.org and books will be supplied but the students are encouraged to think beyond and could for instance conduct an interview with a medical specialist, hospital, research organisation etc... Second part of the task involves the student bringing their favourite book into class and picking a chapter. They then form small groups and identify and discuss which part of the brains are involved in the storyline. All strategies and findings are to be written about daily in the 'Brain Blog'.

The Skin
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Students are divided into groups and are given specific words with which to create a 2 minute multimedia story. This could mean an animation, digital story, cartoon etc. The words are defence, heal, attack, wound. Key to this task is that the object of the story has to be skin. So it is important to find out the function, structure and further details of our skin. The stories will be uploaded to the 'Skin Blog'. Again, all stages have to be reflected upon in the 'Skin Blog'.

And then there was cancer...
Students can watch an introductory video on cancer such as: media type="youtube" key="LEpTTolebqo?rel=0" height="315" width="560"

The focus of the following lessons will be on brain and skin cancer specifically.

Tasks further consist of logging relevant research findings regarding the below questions.

What happens to the functioning of the brain after/during cancer? What happens to skin after skin cancer? What preventative measures, if any, can be taken to reduce the occurrence of the cancers?

Find out the different support groups that exist in Australia regarding cancer and see if there are specific help and/or support groups for brain- skin cancer survivors and their loved ones. Determine the different kinds of group's function (e.g. social or community support, research support, councillor support, loved one support etc...) and find reviews on the effectiveness of two such groups.

To assist students
Upping your Google skills....................................here Creating a website..............................................here Creating animations.............................here......here.....here Writing a story....................................................here Interviewing Tips.................................................here Blogging Tips.....................................................here

Useful tutorials
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