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Heart Disease and Cancer Web Quest
You have just received your first job as the Director of Wellness at Bank America. After surveying
employees, you have found that many are dealing with cancer or heart disease themselves or within their
families. Concerned for their wellbeing, you have decided to create a presentation for employees to
access and learn more about each disease. When you discuss this idea with your boss, they give you the
following parameters:
You have a choice of technology for the presentation. You must choose one of the
following:
1. Construct a Web site.
2. Construct a PowerPoint presentation.
Your website or power point must include at least the following information:
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Risk factors and how to reduce them
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What can you do to prevent heart disease/cancer
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What is the treatment
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What are warning signs
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How age, sex, race or family history impacts the disease
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How can heart disease/cancer be prevented
Once the presentation is completed, it will be presented to employees on
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Cancer and Heart Disease Web Quest Questions
Essential Question: The reason why we are completing this project. This should be
answered through your power point or website.
How can heart disease or cancer be prevented?
Guiding Questions: You may want to use some of these in addition to ones you create
to help look for information.
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What is cancer/heart disease?
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What are the causes?
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What are different types?
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Can any cancers/heart disease be prevented?
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What are the risk factors?
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What things can you do as a teenager to cut your risk?
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What things should adults do to reduce their risks?
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What are the various treatments?
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Are some more apt to have cancer/heart disease based on their age, sex or race?
Cancer Web Quest Information
Introduction
Cancer is a frightening disease. One way to confront that fear is to know more about the disease,
how to cut your risk factors, and how to deal with the disease if you or someone you know has it.
Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth of abnormal
cells. If the spread of the cells is not controlled, it can result in death. Risk factors
increase the possibility of a person having cancer. These factors can be external
such as chemicals, radiation and viruses or internal such as immune conditions,
hormones, and inherited mutations. These factors may act together or by
themselves to promote carcinogenesis. Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormones,
and immunotherapy currently treat Cancer.
This year about 563,100 Americans are expected to die of cancer. This is more than 1,500
people per day. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded
only by heart disease. In the last decade over 5 million people have died from cancer.
Many cancers can be prevented or treated successfully if found early enough. You can make
a difference in your life and perhaps in the lives of your family and friends by learning more
about the risk factors that cause cancer. Did you know that ALL cancer caused by cigarette
smoking and heavy use of alcohol can be prevented completely? Did you know that it is
predicted that one third of all cancer deaths could be prevented if young people would
adapt good nutrition habits? Did you know that one million skin cancers are predicted for
just next year but using blockers to protect from the sun’s rays could prevent them?
This quest could save your life or the life of someone you love.
Are you ready? Can you handle the challenge?
Task
Your team is to visit various web sites to discover the keys to prevention of cancer. Along
the way learn a bit about the disease and its treatment. When you have all the information
you need, you are to create a power point or webpage to share with family and friends to
help them understand the risk factors and how they can change what they do now to help
them prevent getting cancer later.
Good luck.
The lives of your friends and family rest on what you find out!
Cancer Links
Cancer Society
Do
http://www.cancer.org
This First
This resource will allow you to look at various types of cancers and their descriptions as well as a
wealth of other information.
Cancer Detection
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/scienceqa/archive/010529.html
You can use this site to help gather information on cancer detection.
Cancer Causes
http://www.sciencedigest.org/0996T.HTM
Use this website to address cancer causes and prevention.
Cancer Diagnosis and Effects on Patients
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20020409tuesday.html
This website will help address the issue of cancer diagnosis and the effects on the patients.
Misconceptions of Cancer Causes
http://www.ncpa.org/studies/s214.html
This is a good website on researching cancer causes and misconceptions.
Cancer Treatments and Effects
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/scienceqa/archive/950822b.html
This is a good website on cancer treatments and their effects on patients.
Medicinal Plants and their uses
http://www.world.std.com/~krahe/html1.html
Research from list of commonly used plants.
Are herbal medicines always good?
http://www.ul.ie/~childsp/CinA/Issue62/TOC10_Medicine.htm
Research the pros and cons of herbal medicines.
Article �Americans Gamble Herbs as Medicine�
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/19990209tuesday.html
Research the problems of using herbs as medicine as a source of self-treatment.
Cancer - Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine
www.nancyrakela.com/cancer.html
During cancer treatment, the supportive treatment of acupuncture and herbal medicine. Promotes the
healing of wounds and prevents the formation of scar.
CNN - Alternative therapies gain new respect in cancer treatment ...
www.cnn.com/HEALTH/cancer/9905/16/alternative.cancer/
Alternative therapies gain new respect in cancer treatment ... "Most of the complementary therapies,
whether they are massage therapy or St. John's Wart or ...
Division of Cancer Prevention
www3.cancer.gov/prevention/
The Division of Cancer Prevention is the primary unit of the National Cancer
Institute devoted to cancer prevention research.
Heart Disease Web Quest
Introduction
In class you learned that heart disease is the number one cause of death in the
United States. We also learned that one-third of you will develop heart disease.
Now you should learn how to prevent yourself from developing this disease. Many
of the risk factors can be controlled or managed, and by doing this web quest you
will gain knowledge and hopefully reduce your chances of developing heart
disease.
Are you at risk for a heart disease? What are the major risk factors? How can you prevent heart disease?
The Task
The purpose of this Web Quest is to use the Internet as a research tool on the
topic of heart disease risk factors and heart disease prevention. You will then
present your information in a power point or a web site to the class.
The Process
You will be using Internet sites (links) that I have located for you.
Heart Disease Links
American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org
This site provides information and data from the AHA on the benefits of aspirin in heart disease
prevention. From the left hand column find the Heart and Stroke Encyclopedia, and then look under A
for Aspirin.
Yahoo Search on Heart Disease
http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Heart_Attack/
HealthFinder Web Site - Search for risk factor preventions
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
International Task Force for Heart Disease Prevention
http://www.chd-taskforce.de/
This site has several links for information on causes and prevention.
Berkely Heart Lab Resources
http://www.berkeleyheartlab.com/
This link has many World Wide Web sites for heart disease and prevention.
The Mayo Clinic Heart Center
http://www.mayoclinic.com/
This site has several current articles about heart disease, risk factors, and prevention. Find those
articles from looking up Heart in the left hand column.
WebMD
http://www.webmd.com/heart/default.htm
This site has a list of several articles and information about heart disease.
Nutrition, Health, and Heart Disease
http://www.health-heart.org/
This is an excellent site for topics on nutrition and the effects of nutrition on heart disease.
Health Evidence Bulletin
http://hebw.cf.ac.uk/
A web site from Wales that has detailed information on heart disease.
Cancer and Heart Disease Rubric
Student Name:
CATEGORY
Originality
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6
Presentation shows
Presentation shows
considerable originality some originality and
and inventiveness. The inventiveness. The
content and ideas are content and ideas are
presented in a unique presented in an
and interesting way.
interesting way.
4
2
Presentation shows an Presentation is a
attempt at originality
rehash of other
and inventiveness on 1- people's ideas and/or
2 cards.
graphics and shows
very little attempt at
original thought.
Text - Font Choice & Font formats (e.g.,
Font formats have been Font formatting has
Font formatting makes
Formatting
color, bold, italic) have carefully planned to
been carefully planned it very difficult to read
been carefully planned enhance readability.
to complement the
the material.
to enhance readability
content. It may be a
and content.
little hard to read.
Content - Accuracy
All content throughout
the presentation is
accurate. There are no
factual errors.
Most of the content is
accurate but there is
one piece of
information that might
be inaccurate.
The content is generally Content is typically
accurate, but one piece confusing or contains
of information is clearly more than one factual
flawed or inaccurate.
error.
Spelling and
Grammar
Presentation has no
misspellings or
grammatical errors.
Presentation has 1-2
misspellings, but no
grammatical errors.
Presentation has 1-2
Presentation has more
grammatical errors but than 2 grammatical
no misspellings.
and/or spelling errors.
Sequencing of
Information
Information is organized Most information is
in a clear, logical way. It organized in a clear,
is easy to anticipate the logical way. One card
type of material that
or item of information
might be on the next
seems out of place.
card.
Use of Graphics
All graphics are
attractive (size and
colors) and support the
theme/content of the
presentation.
A few graphics are not All graphics are
attractive but all support attractive but a few do
the theme/content of
not seem to support the
the presentation.
theme/content of the
presentation.
Several graphics are
unattractive AND
detract from the content
of the presentation.
Cooperation
Group delegates tasks
and shares
responsibility effectively
all of the time.
Group delegates tasks
and shares
responsibility effectively
most of the time.
Group delegates tasks
and shares
responsibility effectively
some of the time.
Group often is not
effective in delegating
tasks and/or sharing
responsibility.
Effectiveness
Project includes all
material needed to gain
a comfortable
understanding of the
topic. It is a highly
effective study guide.
Project includes most
material needed to gain
a comfortable
understanding of the
material but is lacking
one or two key
elements. It is an
adequate study guide.
Project is missing more
than two key elements.
It would make an
incomplete study guide.
Project is lacking
several key elements
and has inaccuracies
that make it a poor
study guide.
Some information is
There is no clear plan
logically sequenced. An for the organization of
occasional card or item information.
of information seems
out of place.