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         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?           

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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.​
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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.
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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.​
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Incubation:
  • Students will engage in the Tell it to a Toddler Strategy and use Talking Chips to share the knowledge they have gained.​
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  • 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.
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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.​
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Project Template:
  • Click here for teacher's full plan.

​Reflection and Feedback:
  • Skills4Success rubric


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

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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."
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