PVU GCE Portfolio

In my STEAM course called Disease, we finished our third and final unit called “World”. In this unit, we focused on the wide spread of diseases. We mainly studied the different classifications of diseases such as a pandemic, endemic, hyperendemic, epidemic, and sporadic.We studied how we can keep the public safe from something like an epidemic. In addition, we looked how an epidemic can affect the world. For this final Action Project, we were supposed to choose a disease of our interest. We were then instructed to study an outbreak of the disease from the past. I chose Ebola in the Dominican Republic. I chose this because I thought this was an expected place due to its growth of tourist. We then created a newspaper article that informs the readers about the outbreak. The new article explains how the outbreak was controlled and what we can do to avoid the outbreak. Overall this AP was really fun! I had a good time researching, doing the project, and most importantly learning something. ...

For my STEAM course - Disease, we were studying mental disorders. In this unit, we learned all about mental disorders and the DSM-5. We focused heavily on the autism spectrum. We learned what it is like to be on the autism spectrum. We read a book called “The Reason I Jump” by Naoki Higashida. In addition, we also learned about different types of brain waves. We learn about what these brain waves control in our body. Delta, Theta, Gamma, Beta, and Alpha are some of the many brain waves. For this Action Project, we were instructed to find a mental disorder and make a simulation of what it’s like to have the mental disorder. We then made a lesson plan and then ran a simulation on the class. I chose a subcategory of a learning specific disorder called dyslexia. The hardest thing to do in my project was to create the simulation. I created a gif that simulates dyslexia. It was hard for me to tell if it worked because I experience dyslexia on daily basis. After making tweaks to the gif I ove...

In my Winter Term STEAM course Disease, we mainly focused on the human body. We studied the body systems and how our bodies function. We also learned how many different types of diseases that could affect our body systems. In the first unit, we mainly focused on Cancer. We studied the causes and cures for Cancer. Collectively we learned and discussed the different types of diseases and how we can classify each disease. We learned a lot of crucial information. Everything we learned in unit one, I was able to incorporate in our Action Project. For this project, the class was instructed to showcase what we learned about the body systems. We had to pick on a disease. I chose Carpal Tunnel. For this Action Project, we had to create a patient profile that could show how it affected his/hers life and body. We did this portion through writing. The rest we did through drawings. We made life-sized human pictures of two things that your disease affects. My two systems were the Nervous System and ...