A.2.+Type+I+and+Type+II+Activities

Type One Activities These activities are considered to be "awareness" activities. 1. One Type I activity in my classroom is an interest center filled with resources on the Human Body. It includes numerous books and magazines on various body systems, activities correlating to various levels of Bloom's taxonomy, and a computer with internet access. The students have the opportunity to visit the interest center to further research a topic that interested them from class. 2. Another Type I activity that I did with my class was watching a video about the systems of the human body. This was a great introduction for the students to see how the systems of the body work together in order to perform daily activities. The video was called//Eyewitness: Human Machine//. The students were very engaged in seeing the complex interactions between our muscles, bones, and brain just to move the body.



3. One of the favorite Type I activities incorporated into my classroom was bringing in a guest speaker to talk to my class about the human body. My friend, Rebekah Beaty, is finishing the Surgical Physician's Assistant Program at UAB. She come and talked about all of the body systems we had been studying in class, share with the students about her job, and answered a lot of questions that my students had about the human body. I wish that she could have stayed longer!

Type Two Activities These activities are considered to be "how to" activities. 1. When Rebekah came to speak to the class, she was able to teach my students how to check their reflexes, take their blood pressure, and take their pulse. She talked about how doctors use these tests to look for possible problems with the body's functions. She was able to demonstrate how to do these tests, watch the students as they practiced, and give them feedback on how they were doing. I had several students who talked about this experience for days after her visit, and are now interested in possibly pursuing a career in medicine. 2. One of the activities for our Human Body Unit was to complete a WebQuest on the most important body system. The final product for this WebQuest was to write a persuasive letter convincing the CEO of the Human Body Corporation that you are the most important body system so that you will not get fired. Many of my students did not know how to write a letter in business format or how to write a persuasive piece. We had a mini-lesson on how to write this type of lesson so that they were able to complete the WebQuest.  ﻿   ﻿        Home