Restoring Health to a Burn Patient
                                                                By:  Sarah Kapenga      

Project at a Glance :

This project is designed for high school Anatomy students studying the Integumentary System (skin, hair, and glands).  Students will be designing a plan for treating a burn patient.  (3 - 4 week project)

       
Driving Question:
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​How can we, therapists, restore health to burn patients?           

Standards:

• HS - LS 1 -2 &  1- 3

Team / Culture Building:

• Anatomy based games similar to tag and Memory emphasizing the importance of teamwork in the medical field.
• Teams will include a designated medical instructor, communication/PR person, child-life specialist, and data entry person​.​

Entry Event:

• Invite a local family in, whose son experienced a bad burn in an accident, to share their personal journey of healing.  This will shed light on the importance of the driving question and raise interest and awareness.​

Stakeholders:

• Hospital workers including doctors and nurses
• Burn patients and their families 

Empathy Building:

• Students will create an  Empathy Map (including Pains and Gains) on Padlet, ​while putting themselves in the shoes of someone experiencing a burn injury.

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• Next, students will use Stormboard or Padlet to break apart the driving question; using prior knowledge, and making predictions about what they will need to know to solve the problem.
• Students will create a Concept Map visualizing the nature of burn patient therapy.​

Incubation:

• Students will engage in the Tell it to a Toddler Strategy and use Talking Chips to share the knowledge they have gained.​

• Incorporate a Fish Bowl discussion and the Anti-Problem protocol to generate solution ideas.

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Solution Building:

• Students will share their solution ideas and use Dot Voting to narrow down them down.
• Next, they will use the NUF and $100 Tests to determine the best solution/s to the driving question.  Groups will share the results of their NUF test with a specialist in the field to get feedback.

Critique and Revision: 

• Using Flipgrid videos students will share their ideas during a Gallery Walk and get feedback from other groups.
• Feedback will be given throughout the project from guest speakers, medical professionals, and the teacher.

Authentic Audience:​

• Medical professional from Devos Children's Hospital
• Guest speakers
• Administrators

Final Presentation:

• At an off campus location students share their holistic therapy plan with the authentic audience.​

Project Template:

• Click here for teacher's full plan.

​Reflection and Feedback:

• Skills4Success rubric

Check out the teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet.

Meet the Educator:
Sarah Kapenga teaches Biology and Anatomy at Hamilton High School. 

       "The Design Thinking structure gave me the tools I needed to take my project from "I think this could be good" to "I'm confident that I can walk my students through the steps of PBL, and their results will WOW me."