Health and the Environment
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6th - 8th Grade
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Brandi Workman
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4 Slides • 21 Questions
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Essential Question:
To what extent do genes play a role in determining disease risk?
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Today, you are going to start reading an article about the possible environmental effects on genetics.
As you read, annotate using the following parameters:
Highlight Green = Main Idea
Highlight Yellow = Supporting Idea
Circle = vocabulary word to look up; write in the margins
Underline = connection to learning; write in the margins
? = question; write in the margins
! = reaction; write in the margins
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5th Grading Period - Linking Health to the Environment
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Multiple Choice
What can influence disease development according to the passage?
color preference
environmental factors
school choice
weather
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Multiple Choice
What are perfluorinated chemicals commonly used for?
Coating frying pans, food packaging materials, and fabrics
Cleaning windows and floors
Treating skin conditions
Flavoring food products
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Multiple Choice
What can affect our risk of disease according to the passage?
school choice
natural ingredients in foods
color of food
social media usage
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Multiple Choice
What determines how an organism looks and acts?
weather
school choice
genes
Golgi Apparatus
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Multiple Choice
Which factors determine who may develop certain diseases?
Genes, behaviors, and environmental factors
weather conditions and geographic location
school choice and music preference
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Multiple Choice
What are genes?
Fragments of DNA that determine how an organism looks
Proteins that help with digestion
Carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables
Vitamins essential for bone health
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Multiple Select
What are some examples of environmental factors that can influence disease development? (Mark all that are correct)
hair color and eye shape
exposure to harmful chemicals
food we eat and water we drink
air we breathe
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Multiple Choice
How can potentially toxic pesticides and pollutants enter our bodies?
through lungs, skin, and nose
through ears, eyes, and hair
through feet, hands, and mouth
through elbows, knees, and shoulders
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Multiple Choice
Which chemical is commonly found in plastics, dental sealants, and thermal-printing paper (like a receipt)?
Iron
Vitamin C
Bisphenol A (BPA)
Calcium
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Multiple Select
What can influence disease development according to the passage? Choose all that apply.
food choices
environmental factors
weather conditions
level of activity
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Open Ended
1. What is the purpose of the Child Health and Development Studies?
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Open Ended
2. What is unusual about the research?
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Open Ended
3. What have been two important things that scientists have learned through the study?
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Open Ended
4. What does the term cohort mean?
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Open Ended
5. What are three environmental factors that might affect a person’s health?
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Open Ended
6. What are at least two examples the story cites of chemicals in the environment that might harm health?
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Open Ended
7. What is an epidemiologist?
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Open Ended
8. What was the “Hunger Winter” famine, and what have scientists learned by observing the health of babies born during this period?
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Open Ended
9. Besides the Child Health and Development Studies, what are two other well-known cohort studies?
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Open Ended
10. What is one important limitation of observational studies?
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Open Ended
Imagine that you were designing an observational cohort study to examine the effects of a certain chemical, called “XYZ,” starting with XYZ’s effects on newborn infants. Based on what you’ve learned about the strength and limits of such studies, what are two steps you might take to ensure that your results pointed to “causation” as opposed to just some “correlation”?
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To what extent do genes play a role in determining disease risk?
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