Overview and Background: Unit: Birth Defects

Michelle Higgins : Cheney USD 268

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Cheney : Grades 10 - 10

Title:	Birth Defects
Topics:	Birth Defects
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-
Status:	Revised
Date Revised:

Other Designers:

Summary:
Students will look at birth defects and the effects that they have on the individual and the family.

Print Materials Needed:
Developing Child / by Holly Brisbane. Glencoe 1994.

Resources:
Video - Perfect Baby / with Barbara Walters. ABC News 1990.

Resource Attachments:	http://www.cheney268.com/FACS/Birthdefects/BirthDefectProject.htm
Internet Resource Links:
Notes:

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS
Title:	Family and Consumer Science
Standard(s):	12.2 Analyze conditions that influence human growth and development. 12.3 Analyze strategies that promote growth and development across the life span.

Understandings:
user	Birth defects are complex and have many symptoms and causes that lead to the increased need for care and increased medical costs. The challenges of an individual with a birth defect creates stress on the family. Society should show greater empathy for individuals with birth defects and their families.

Essential Questions:
User	What is it like to have a child born with a birth defect? Are there additional strains on families who have a child with a birth defect? How can birth defects be prevented?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
Names of various birth defects.
Symptoms of birth defects.

S
Find organizations on internet for help.
Demonstrate empathy for those with birth defects.
Identify birth defect by description.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Students will assume the role of first-time parents of a child with a birth defect. They will visit an organization in Wichita that can allow them to experience first hand what it will be like to parent a child with a birth defect. They will keep a diary of their feelings from the time they find out the child has a birth defect, the kind of defect and its characteristics and how are they going to handle this situation as a parent. They will also address how will other people treat the parents and the child?

Key Criteria:
Accurately reflect the positive and negative issues and emotions involved in raising a child with a birth defect.

Task/Prompt: A New Parent

Type:Performance Task

Topics: Birth Defects

Summary:
Students will assume the role of first-time parents of a child with a birth defect. They will visit an organization in Wichita that can allow them to experience first hand what it will be like to parent a child with a birth defect. They will keep a diary of their feelings from the time they find out the child has a birth defect, the kind of defect and its characteristics and how are they going to handle this situation as a parent. They will also address how will other people treat the parents and the child?

Print Materials Needed:

Resources:

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:
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Link 5: http://

Notes:

Student Directions:
You are soon to be a first-time parent of a child with a birth defect. You will visit an organization in Wichita that can allow you to experience first hand what it will be like to parent a child with a birth defect. Keep a diary of your feelings from the time you find out your child has a birth defect, the kind of defect and its characteristics and how are you going to handle this situation as a parent. How will other people treat you and your child?

Your diary should accurately reflect the positive and negative issues and emotions of raising a child with a birth defect.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:
Student self-assessment
	Reflective Journal-How have your feelings changed on birth defects after doing this unit?
Selected Response/Short-answer test/quiz
	Quiz over unit and notes.
Product check
	Poster project.

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

1. Cooperative learning activity-line up: How many known birth defects are there in the world?
2. Post vocabulary on board.
3. Display pictures of various birth defects (posters from prior year). Provide a handout on performance requirements, deadlines, and and rubrics.
4. Textbook-Pages 130-141
5. Workbook pages for 130-141
6. Lecture and notes
7. Reflective Journal writing
8. KWL to take notes for poster project
9. Poster project - You work for March of Dimes and your job for the next two weeks is to create a poster on a specific birth defect and displayed it for public information.
10. Peer editing poster.
11. Field trip to area hospital NICU.
12. Students will assume the role of first-time parents of a child with a birth defect. They will visit an organization in Wichita that can allow them to experience first hand what it will be like to parent a child with a birth defect. They will keep a diary of their feelings from the time they find out the child has a birth defect, the kind of defect and its characteristics and how are they going to handle this situation as a parent. They will also address how will other people treat the parents and the child?