PDHPE Web quests

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PDHPE Web quests

• DRUG USE, DRIVING AND THE MEDIA
• Stage 4

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Strand and Outcomes

• Strand - Personal and Community Health
• Outcome 4.12 A student investigates health
  issues affecting young people p.34 PDHPE
  syllabus
• Outcome 4.13 A student predicts the
  consequences of risk behaviours and describes
  strategies to minimise harm p.35 PDHPE syllabus
• Skills, Knowledge and Understanding Outcomes
  p.33 PDHPE syllabus

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ICT Capabilities

• Using search engines on the internet for relevant
  information
• Process information through the creation of a
  spreadsheet
• Use of Digital still and Video cameras to record
  information
• Save research information and create a
  Powerpoint/Hyperstudio presentation on CD Rom

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ORIENTATION

• At a café with friends at the end of a school
  year, you are discussing various options for a
  one week holiday destination on the coast. Your
  older brother is with you, he is suffering from a
  cold and has been taking cold and flu tablets. He
  doesnt like the sound of a long drive as he is
  the only licensed driver in the group and Lennox
  Head on the North Coast has been suggested as a
  possibility. Your brother jokes about about not
  being able to drive a vehicle or operate
  machinery because of the tablets he is taking.
• It makes you stop and think. First of all
  because your brothers joke wasnt that funny but
  also as the group will probably push for the slog
  up the highway North to Lennox and you wonder how
  the cold tablets really might affect your
  brothers driving ???

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TASK

• After mentioning your concerns to your brother it
  starts him thinking as well! You both decide to
  unlock the mysteries of the effects of all types
  of drugs and what if any effect they may have on
  driving ability.
• With a partner research information using the
  internet about the various categories of drugs
  and how they might effect driving performance and
  how media and marketing strategies influence our
  thinking about drug use.
• Create a CD Rom that describes the effects of
  various drug types on driving. Use a spreadsheet
  to categorise drug types and effects on
  performance.
• Use Powerpoint/Hyperstudio to present your work.

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PROCESS

• A) Work with a partner
• B) Investigate websites that describe drugs
  and drug use and how they might effect the
  driving task. Dont forget that Alcohol is
  classified as a drug!
• C) Design a spreadsheet to define drugs into
  prescription and non prescription types and then
  describe their short and long term effects
• D) Analyse how media and marketing
  strategies influence our thinking about drug use
  by
• 1) building a bank of images from magazines,
  newspapers and billboards using a digital camera
  and scanner, then save them to CD ROM
• 2) videotaping interviews with friends to
  determine their opinion on drugs and the media
• E) Create a Power point/Hyperstudio presentation
  using the Web quest links, digital still and
  video images. Consider the following questions in
  your presentation
• What are the consequences by law for drug
  driving? What is the prevalence of the presence
  of drugs in drivers killed in NSW road accidents?
• How do drugs effect the driving task generally?
  Choose one drug type and describe its effect on
  driving. How does the combined use of alcohol
  and other drugs become a problem when driving and
  provide two examples
• Does the media really influence our thinking on
  drug use?

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RESOURCES

• Websites Drugs and Driving information for
  Young people www.studentnet.net.au
• www.austroads.com.au/default.html
• www.nhtsa.gov/
• www.icadts.org/index.html
• www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Misc/driving/contents
  .htm
• www.coe.int/T/E/Social_Cohesion/pompidou_group/
• www.emcdda.org/
• Media Class copies of magazines and newspapers
• Hardware School computers / Digital video camera
  / Digital still camera / Flatbed scanner

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ASSESSMENT RUBRIC
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TEACHER AND STUDENT REFLECTION

• Student to complete assessment rubric
• Teacher to complete assessment rubric
• Small group discussion about the usefulness of
  the Webquest
• Was confidence developed to explore, adapt and
  shape technological understandings and skills?

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Stage 4 Nutrition

• Investigate the fat content in popular fast foods
• Use of web links to major junk food retailers
• Use a table to record a fast food consumption
  diary
• Plan a healthy eating week
• Which sports do you like? How often do you get to
  play?