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HEART SMART A WebQuest Designed for Heart Attack & Re-occurrence Prevention |
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
- - Chungliang Al Huang
- Introduction - Task - Process - Evaluation - Conclusion -
You are the survivor of bypass heart surgery. Your physician has instructed you to research topics associated with coronary artery disease (coronary atherosclerosis) and congestive heart failure to help in prevention of reoccurrence and education of the diseases.
At your next check-up your physician will be expecting you to answer the following questions:
1. What should your ideal blood pressure be?
2. What is the difference between LDL and HDL cholesterol? Which is better?
3. How can you lower your cholesterol levels?
4. What are three tips to successful exercise?
5. What is your exercise heart rate range?
6. How long should you exercise each day? How many days per week?
7. What is heart failure?
8. What medications are you taking?
9. What does each medication do?
10. What procedure did you have done when you had your heart attack?
Your physician has also asked you to make a handout that he/she can give to patients who are at high risk for cardiac health problems. The handout should contain at least 20 health related facts that you feel are pertinent to the prevention of a heart attack, CAD and CHF.
To accomplish your physician's instructions look up information on the following topics:
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Anatomy and Physiology of the HeartThe following links provide accurate and up-to-date information to help you research the information you will need to answer the physician's questions.
The rubric below provides a detailed description of the factors that will be taken into consideration in the evaluations.
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Exemplary 4 |
Accomplished 3 |
Developing 2 |
Beginning 1 |
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Ability to Answer Physicians Questions |
9-10 Answered Correctly. Congratulations! You have prevented yourself from future heart problems! |
6-8 Answered Correctly. You are on your way to preventing yourself from future heart problems. |
3-5 Answered Correctly. More research would help you in order to prevent reoccurrence of health problems. |
0-2 Answered Correctly. I’m sorry, but another heart attack is in your near future! |
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Completion of Handout |
20 plus factual tips. Your physician is using your handout and you are saving lives! |
Less than 20 factual tips. Your info is good, you just need a little more. |
20+ tips, not all factual. Make sure your info is correct, you don’t want to give out bad health advice. |
<20 tips, not all factual. Hopefully you are taking your health a little more seriously than you did this handout! |
Permission is hereby granted for educators to use this WebQuest for non-profit educational purposes only. If you use the Heart Attack & Reoccurance Prevention WebQuest, I would be interested in feedback as to how useful you found it to be. If you have suggestions for improvement, please feel free to email me, troutkristi@yahoo.com.