Lesson 3: Snoozin's Not Losin': It's Good for You!

Topic: Sleep Part of: Unit: ZZZZzzzWorld: Exploring Sleep

 

• Focus: Students will explore many aspects of sleep and its importance in their overall daily functioning and in their long-term health.
  

Activities | Objectives | Resources & Web Sites

 

Activities

 

Activity 3A: Sleepy Reactions

(reaction, data, analysis, sleep deprivation)

Activity 3B: You Somnolist!: Sleep Words

(sleep, biological, affix, root word, prefix, suffix, kinesthetic, symbol, animal)

Activity 3C: “ Somnorifics ”: A Study of Sleep

(sleep, somnorific, restorative, adaptive, nrem, non rapid eye movement, rem, energy, stage, brain wave)

Activity 3D: Somnosurfin' : Reading the Wave

(wave, energy, amplitude, frequency, joint, wavelength)

Activity 3E: Polly Want a Somnogram? Reading Polysomnograms

(polysomnogram, eeg, eek, sleep disorder, wave pattern)

Activity 3F: Polysomnogram Mystery: Sleep Sleuths

(polysomnogram, sleep stage, wave pattern, sleep disorder, sleep pattern)

Activity 3G: No Rest for the Weary: Sleep Disorders

(sleep disorder, insomnia, nightmare, restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea, snoring, narcolepsy, sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep terror disorder, jet lag)

Resource

Zzzz World: The World of Sleep PowerPoint Presentation html version     ppt version (1 MB)

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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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Resources & Web Sites

 

Carskadon, M. Acebo, C. & Jenni, O. (2004). Regulation of Adolescent Sleep: Implications for Behavior. Annals of the New York Academy of Science , 1021, 276-291.

 

Gally, J. & Edelman, G. (2004). Neural reapportionment: an hypothesis to account for the function of sleep. CR Biologica, 327(8), 721-7.

 

Geyer, JD; Payne; TA, Carney; Aldrich, MS. (2000). Atlas of digital polysomnography. Philadelphia. Lippincott Williams & Wilkin.

 

Roffwarg, H., Muzio, J., Dement, W. (1966). Ontogenetic Development of the Human Sleep-Dream Cycle. Science , 152:3772, 604-609.

 

Neuroscience for Kids Website http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

 

http://www.sleepnet.com

 

National Center for Sleep Disorders Research http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/ncsdr/

National Sleep Foundation
http://www.sleepfoundation.org

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Browse/Sleep.html

 

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/sleep/

 

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/index.htm

 

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