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Health Requirement

To fulfill state requirements, my son took health for two semesters during high school. To fulfill my requirements, I enhanced the lessons. I wanted my son to practice these skills: plan presentations, speak before a group, interview to collect data, research to collect data. Additionally, he made charts, posters, drawings, and other presentation tools.

AOP Lifepacs

I had no prior experience with Lifepacs, these are the first ones that we've used. I knew that the booklets were small, but I discovered that they really pack in the information. The General Health contained too much information for one semester. I decided to use some of the books for 9th grade and the some for 10th. For the ninth grade year, I choose the lifepacs about human physiology because he was also studying Exploring Creation with Biology which does not include human physiology. To make this class (using just 2 life pacs) worthy of the 1/2 credit, I added the presentations and projects that I hope will my child will enjoy doing. I believed that by doing these projects my child would understand and retain the information better. I also believed that he would benefit and looking back, he did. My son has made use of the presentation skills countless times since in the Civil Air Patrol.

Donna Young
updated: Jan. 11, 2008

Below is my one semester enhanced schedule for Lifepacs 708 Human Anatomy: Part 1 and 709 Human Anatomy: Part 2.

Class Schedule

Books / Materials: Alpha Omega Lifepacs 708 Human Anatomy 1, 709 Human Anatomy 2
for 2nd Semester

Schedule

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II

III

IV

V

19
708

[I]1-2 read objectives do survey

2-3 .I. work through 1.5 draw a cell.

4-6 do 1-1.14

6-7 do 1.15-1.17 look up theory

7 do 1.18-1.21

20

8 1.22-1.32

9-11 self-test

[II]11-12 read and study vocabulary

Study a first aid book and make an oral report on the treatment of broken bones, sprains, strains, and dislocations

21

Present presentation

12-14 do 2.1-2.19
geosafari skeleton

14-16 do 2.20-2.29
geosafari skeleton

16-17 do 2.30-2.34
geosafari skeleton

18-19 do 2.35-2.44
geosafari sense organs

22

19-20 do 2.45-2.53
geosafari sense organs

Review

Self-test 21-22

Write a report on the use of fingerprints as a means of identification. Make an oral presentation Monday.

23

Present presentation

[III] 23 read and study vocabulary

23-25 do 3.1-3.7
draw the spinal cord

From a picture in an encyclopedia make a diagram of the DNA molecule

24

Present presentation

25-26 do 3.8-3.14
draw the brain

27-29 do 3.223.32
geosafari sense organs

Encyclopedia- Robert Hooke or/and Anton van Leeuwenhoek write a 1-page report about their study of cells

25

Present presentation

Draw an eye
geosafari sense organs

30 do 3.33-3.37
draw an ear

Make a poster depicting the levels of organization in living organisms. Include an example of a tissue, organ, system found in human body

26

Present presentation

31-32 do 1-6 and 3.38-3.41

32 do 3.42-3.43
draw a nose

Draw a human skeleton, label bones

27

Present presentation

32-33 do 1-3 and 3.48-3.51

34-35 self test

Review

Unit test

28
709

1-3 read and do survey, vocabulary

3-4 do 1.1-1.12

4-5 do 1.13-1.20

Prepare a lecture on which substance man can live without longer, food, water, or oxygen

29

Present presentation

6 do 1.21-1.30

6-8 do 1-3 & 1.31-1.41

Draw the [page 7] respiratory system

8-9 do 1.42-1.52

30

10-12 self test

[II] 12

13-14 1-6 & 2.1-2.10

Prepare a lecture on the respiration problems that astronauts must deal with.

31

Present presentation

15-17 do 1-7 & 2.13-1.23

Draw inside the heart [page 16]

17-18 do 2.24-2.30
draw artery

18-19 do 2.31-2.36
draw capillaries

32

19 do 2.37-2.44

19-20 do 2.45-2.58

20-21 do 2.59-2.63

Gather data on the relationship between age and heart rate. Check the pulse rates of younger children, parents, and grandparents on a chart.

33

Present presentation

21 do 2.64-2.72

21-22 do 2.73-3.77

Self test 2

[III] 24-27 do 3.1-3.16

34

27-30 do 3.173.33

30-31 do 3.34-3.38

31-33 do 3.39-3.57

Make a diagram to show the path of food through the digestive system and during the presentation explain the role of each organ in digestion.

35

Present presentation

[page 33-35] self test

[IV] 36-38 do4.1-4.15

38-39 do 4.16-4.24

[page 39-42] self test

36

[V] 42-44 do 5.1-5.9

44-45 do 5.10-5.25

Self test 5
[page 46-47]

Review

Unit test