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Unit:
ZZZZzzzWorld: Exploring Sleep
Topic: Sleep
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Rationale:
Students will explore many aspects of sleep and its importance in their overall daily functioning and in their long-term health.
Keywords: adaptive, affix, amplitude, analysis, biological, brain wave, data, EEG, EEK, energy, frequency, insomnia, jet lag, kinesthetic, narcolepsy, nightmare, rapid eye movement, polysomnogram, prefix, reaction, root word, sleep, sleep apnea, sleep deprivation,
sleep disorder, sleep pattern, sleep stage, snoring, suffix, wave pattern, wave
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Unit Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Explore how the amount of sleep affects reaction time
- Identify critical attributes and use a list of root words, prefixes and suffixes
- Use sleep-related terms in context by stating their meaning and using them in a sentence
- Distinguish between stages of sleep
- Recognize the difference between types of brain waves
- Examine the changes that occur in major body systems during sleep
- Describe basic properties of waves
- Explain the relationship between energy, amplitude and frequency of a wave
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of technology to study waves
- Analyze a polysomnogram to identify what each line is measuring, i.e. EEG, EEK etc.
- Observe a polysomnogram and identify the stage of sleep and/ or specific wave patterns, sleep disorders, etc.
- Observe how organ systems are interdependent
- Research information about a sleep disorder
- Collect, graph and analyze data
- Infer and draw conclusions from data analysis
- Convert information if tabulated form into a graphical representation of the information
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Unit/Lesson Evaluation
Under Development
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Funding
M.O.R.E. Curriculum Program Funding 2003-2008:
National Institutes of Health
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Minority K-12 Initiative for Teachers and Students
Grant # R25 HL75777
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