Eye Opener: Online Learning Activities

Jeff's Advocacy Assignment - Medical Terminolgy

Use the web to find all the definitions. Here are some sites that will help you: www.medterms.com
wikipedia.org
www.medilexicon.com
Please find the definitions for the following terms:

Results:

Pre-op - Before an operation

Post-op - After an operation

Out-patient - Is not hospitalized over night, but has made a hospital visit

In-patient - Staying overnight in the hospital

Receptionist - Administrative Assistant

Doctor - Medical practitioner, practices medicine

Nurse - responsible for the treatment, safety, and recovery of patients

Pharmacist - distribute prescription drugs

Anesthesiologist - Is responsible for putting individuals under before a procedure and "waking" them up

Radiology - Does imaging technology (x-rays are an example)

Lauren's Advocacy Assignment - The Salmon Challenge

Instructions
1. You will be given ten questions, just choose the best answer by clicking on it with your mouse. Good choices will help your salmon grow big and strong and migrate to Puget Sound, bad choices will harm or kill your salmon.
2. You may get a Water Quality Alert with no good solution.
3. Click on CHECKUP to see your salmon's current size, health and location.
4. Click on TRY to give your salmon a jumpstart if you discover it is sick.
5. Clicking on the arrow will take you to the next question
6. When you are finished with the game, post a comment about what you learned from it!*NOTE: Salmon Challenge requires Shockwave Player plug-in (external link) to view the animations.

Results:

My neighbor decided to put antifreeze down the drain and killed my fish! Poor Allan is dead now after being in good health... and only after 5 questions :(

Jessica's Advocacy Assigntment - I Don't Want to Clean my Room

Instructions: Read the comic about Anita and her room, then complete the actitivy. There is 24 object in Anita's room that has to place them in the correct recycling bin. There are four different bins. They include a composting bucket, bottle and can recycling bin, paper and cardboard recycling bin and a garbage. Its important for kids to learn how to recycle for numerous reasons. One reason is that it helps maintain a healthy environment which my advocacy project talks about. Another reason would be for kids to learn the importance of recycling and the positive effects that it has on the environment.

Results:

Some of these were tricky... Especially the food items that were organic and that I kept trying to throw away instead of recycle...

Hannah's Advocacy Assignment - Barriers to Bicycling

Instructions
This is a two-part activity.

Part 1: Please read the following web pages:

• Learn about the benefits of bicycling and see for yourself what a great mode of transportation it really is.
• Check out these state- and nation-wide crash facts. The point is not to blame either motorists or bicyclists (because both are at fault), but to learn what causes accidents and think about how they can be avoided with proper bicyclist accommodation.
• Read the following Rules of the Road to learn how to keep yourself and others safe. It is important for bicyclists and motorists alike to know these rules.Part 2: For your assignment, please choose ONE of the following options:

Write a short description of a time when you were somehow involved in (or witnessed) a bicycle-motorist accident. Describe what happened and state how the problem could have been avoided.

OR

Go out into the community and photograph a situation that is unsafe for bicyclists. (Ideas include lack of room on the road, huge potholes, etc.)

Results:

While in high school, there was an accident that involved a boy that was three grades younger than me. He was biking home from the beach on a curvy road, when he was hit by a car. The car accident resulted in the death of the boy riding his bike. The driver of the car was also intoxicated, on his way home, in the middle of the afternoon.

I think that this tragedy could have been easily prevented by there being a biking lane on the busy, curvy road...

Overall, all of these "assignments" were great learning tools. They all really made me think. In each activity, I had learned something knew whether it was something small like a tip for recycling I hadn't known before or something larger like the importance of safe practices while driving to keep bikers safe. Great job on finding or making worthwhile activities group :)