Assignment idea
The month of March is Disability Awareness Month. Using the SRC, research a disease or disability and create a presentation using Google Presentation, PowerPoint, or Prezi. Then research a person who has this disease or disability and show how they have overcome it. For example, you could research hearing loss and Derrick Coleman, the first deaf NFL player, or research Parkinson's disease and Michael J. Fox. Finally, tell how you could incorporate some of the strategies the person you researched used into your own life, whether you have a disability or not.
SRC includes the Health Source to help you in your research on a disease or disability as well as a biography section. You will need to include at least three articles as well as a works cited page.
Need help getting started? Try this website: Famous People with Disabilities. If you like sports, try Special Olympics or the Paralympic Games sites. Maybe you or someone in your family has a disability; you may interview them for this project!
SRC includes the Health Source to help you in your research on a disease or disability as well as a biography section. You will need to include at least three articles as well as a works cited page.
Need help getting started? Try this website: Famous People with Disabilities. If you like sports, try Special Olympics or the Paralympic Games sites. Maybe you or someone in your family has a disability; you may interview them for this project!
Goals
- Students will learn about a disability or disease, the symptoms, treatment, and prevalence.
- Students will learn about a person with this disability and the character traits they have developed to overcome it.
- Students will create a presentation about the disability and person to present to the class.
Assignment Checklist
_____ Select disability and person
_____ Read through tutorial and complete mini-lesson activity
_____ Begin searching for resources in the SRC
_____ Find three articles about the disability and person you selected
_____ Find three images, video or audio clips
_____ Compile Works Cited page (for articles, images, video and audio clips)
_____ Choose presentation tool
_____ Create presentation
_____ Information about disability (symptoms, treatment, prevalence)
_____ Biographical information about person who has this disability, and how they have overcome it
_____ How you have overcome a disability or obstacle in your life
_____ Present to class
_____ Select disability and person
_____ Read through tutorial and complete mini-lesson activity
_____ Begin searching for resources in the SRC
_____ Find three articles about the disability and person you selected
_____ Find three images, video or audio clips
_____ Compile Works Cited page (for articles, images, video and audio clips)
_____ Choose presentation tool
_____ Create presentation
_____ Information about disability (symptoms, treatment, prevalence)
_____ Biographical information about person who has this disability, and how they have overcome it
_____ How you have overcome a disability or obstacle in your life
_____ Present to class
Mini-Lesson
In order to familiarize students with the SRC to complete the above project, students will read through this SRC tutorial and complete the following assignment.
Anticipatory Set
Compare and contrast with students the difference between using Google and using a database:
In order to familiarize students with the SRC to complete the above project, students will read through this SRC tutorial and complete the following assignment.
Anticipatory Set
Compare and contrast with students the difference between using Google and using a database:
Assignment
Read through this SRC tutorial and then register for a free account and make a folder titled "Practice" (You will learn how to do this in the tutorial, under the "Other Features" tab). Complete some practice searches. Need some ideas? Try one of the "Top Searches" on the home page of SRC on the lower left side of the screen. Or try a "Topic Search". If you get a lot of hits, limit your search by full text only, date, or subject heading. Look at a few articles in HTML and PDF format, and see which one you prefer. Then save the article in your Practice folder.
Assessment
Assess students by walking around to see if they have created an account and practice folder, and were able to save an article to their folder. Have them vote for their favorite format, HTML or PDF by completing this survey.
Read through this SRC tutorial and then register for a free account and make a folder titled "Practice" (You will learn how to do this in the tutorial, under the "Other Features" tab). Complete some practice searches. Need some ideas? Try one of the "Top Searches" on the home page of SRC on the lower left side of the screen. Or try a "Topic Search". If you get a lot of hits, limit your search by full text only, date, or subject heading. Look at a few articles in HTML and PDF format, and see which one you prefer. Then save the article in your Practice folder.
Assessment
Assess students by walking around to see if they have created an account and practice folder, and were able to save an article to their folder. Have them vote for their favorite format, HTML or PDF by completing this survey.
Other Materials
Don't forget to check Destiny, the school computer catalog, for books on your disease, disability, and/or person. If you don't find anything in the Lynhurst library, try searching under all MSD Wayne Township schools, and you can order the book through inter-library loan.
Since March is Disability Awareness Month, try to find a novel to read about your disability! There are lots of books with main characters who have a disability, and it will give you a unique perspective to read about it. There is a resource list on Destiny Quest entitled "Disabilities-Fiction". There are 57 titles available at the Lynhurst Library that have a character that is disabled!
Here are a few recommendations. Click on the title for a preview of the book:
Don't forget to check Destiny, the school computer catalog, for books on your disease, disability, and/or person. If you don't find anything in the Lynhurst library, try searching under all MSD Wayne Township schools, and you can order the book through inter-library loan.
Since March is Disability Awareness Month, try to find a novel to read about your disability! There are lots of books with main characters who have a disability, and it will give you a unique perspective to read about it. There is a resource list on Destiny Quest entitled "Disabilities-Fiction". There are 57 titles available at the Lynhurst Library that have a character that is disabled!
Here are a few recommendations. Click on the title for a preview of the book:
Palacio, R.J. Wonder. New York: Knopf, 2012.
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Trueman, Terry. Stuck in Neutral. New York: Harper Tempest, 2001.
Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger.
To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life.
Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger.
To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life.
Draper, Sharon. Out of My Mind. New York: Atheneum Books, 2010.
Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom—the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she’s determined to let everyone know it…somehow. In this breakthrough story from multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner Sharon Draper, readers will come to know a brilliant mind and a brave spirit who will change forever how they look at anyone with a disability.
Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom—the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she’s determined to let everyone know it…somehow. In this breakthrough story from multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner Sharon Draper, readers will come to know a brilliant mind and a brave spirit who will change forever how they look at anyone with a disability.