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DISEASE PROJECT - 7th Grade Health
Mrs. Giovagnoni
Choose a disease/disorder /syndrome and thoroughly answer the following questions. Use the library books,
encyclopedias, and computers (databases) to do your research. Write in full sentences and full paragraphs,
check spelling and grammar, be specific. Number all the questions and restate the question in your answer.
Make sure every person in your group has all the answers – absence will not be an excuse on the day it is due!
Create a share folder on google drive for your group to collaborate in. Choose a different font color for each
person – every person in the group must answer every question.
1. What is the disease? (Introductory paragraph: brief overview, history of the disease, description, …)
2. A. What causes this disease? (virus, bacteria, parasite, heredity, lifestyle …) Provide the name of the
organism if contagious. Explain.
B. How is this disease transmitted or acquired? Is it communicable or non-communicable? Explain.
3. How does it affect your body? Be specific! List and explain all symptoms in detail in a full paragraph.
4. How can it be prevented? Is there a vaccine? (What can be done so you don’t get the disease)
5. How is it treated? Is there a cure? If so, what is it? (explain what you would do if you had the disease:
medication, surgery, lifestyle change, nothing, hospital, …?) (at least one paragraph!)
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Print your shared document after you have combined everyone’s responses for a final answer. Make a
pamphlet full of your researched information on the disease (typed). Be sure to include the answers to
all the questions in the pamphlet (number the questions) in paragraphs. Decorate the pamphlet. Be sure
the front page of your pamphlet includes your name, period/day, and pictures that apply to your disease.
Be sure to include a work cited page containing a book for every person in your group and any
electronic media used by the group.
6. Create a QR code for your disease. Print it and glue it to your pamphlet.
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Use the rubric to self-assess your work before handing in your pamphlet.
Suggested list of diseases/disorders for research (choices will depend on availability in the library):
Allergies
Asthma
Alzheimer’s
ADD/ADHD
Arthritis
Anxiety
Autism
Athlete’s Foot
Auto-Immune Disease
Acne
Breast Cancer
Bubonic Plague
Cancer
Chicken Pox/shingles
Celiac Disease
Common cold
Cholera
Cerebral Palsy
Cystic Fibrosis
Depression
Diabetes
Downs Syndrome
Ebola
Epilepsy
Heart Disease
Hepatitis
High Blood Pressure
Influenza/Flu
Leukemia
Lyme Disease
Malaria
Measles
Mumps/Rubella
Meningitis
Mononucleosis
Muscular Dystrophy
Multiple Sclerosis
MRSA
OCD
- Pertussis
(whooping cough)
Pink Eye
Polio
Pneumonia
Rabies
Rickets
Ring Worm
Schizophrenia
Sickle Cell Anemia
Skin
cancer
Small Pox
Scarlet Fever
Strep Throat
Tourette Syndrome
Tuberculosis
Typhoid fever
West Nile
Yellow Fever
Gout
Due date: ____________________
7th Grade Disease Library Project
Mrs. Giovagnoni Health 7
Aim: Disease project with library research
Day 1
Learning Objective: Students will be able to use library resources to find the answers to the first half of the questions of their
assigned disease after completing library research individually using books and data bases and creating a shared folder.
Day 2
LO: Students will be able to use library resources to find the answers to the second half of the questions of their assigned disease after
completing library research with their group.
Day 3
LO: Students will be able to use library resources to find all the answers to the questions of their assigned disease after completing
library research with their group and finalize answers to all the questions.
Day 4
LO: Students will be able to use library resources to create a QR Code for their assigned disease after completing library research
with their group, compile a typed research report, and created a pamphlet for their topic.
Aim: How many facts can you find about your disease?
Rubric:
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Question 1
5 pts
Question 2
10 pts – A
5pts & B 5pts
Question 3
5 pts
Question 4
5 pts
Question 5
5 pts
Pamphlet
5 pts
QR code
work cited
5 pts
Individual
research/equal
contribution
to group
5 pts
On time
5 pts
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