Lesson 5: System Failure & Health Equity
Duration of Days: 4
Lesson Objective
Analyze cardiovascular diseases and contributing factors.
What causes heart attacks
Why disease varies across populations
Atherosclerosis, heart attack, ischemia, plaque, aneurysm
HS-LS1-1
Reading medical texts
Summarizing research
Analyze diseases
Connect to public health
Purpose is applying biology to health
DOK 3
Food deserts and health
Heart attack equals cardiac arrest
Case study choices
Guided prompts
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1siFIsOAs45CxuUlyJt9dNRdT70eTva14fJMeE1qXHPk/edit?tab=t.0
Cardiology consultant diagnosis project
Skills Assessed
- Case study analysis
- Research and synthesis
- Evaluating evidence
- Applying biological knowledge to health scenarios
Content Assessed
- Atherosclerosis
- Heart attack vs cardiac arrest
- Ischemia
- Plaque formation
- Aneurysms
- Lifestyle and cardiovascular disease
- Public health and health equity