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Chatting
and laughing with friends, eating a dish of macaroni and cheese, seeing the
colours of spring blossoms, and smelling their fragrance -- what do all these
activities have in common? They involve the life processes that are constantly
going on in the human body. In the Human Body program, you will discover
how people grow and develop, receive information from the environment, make
their muscles move, obtain energy from food, transport materials within their
body, and combat disease. The program presents a virtual museum with interactive
exhibits and information in the form of photographs, full-screen video, narrated
text, and 3-D models and simulations, including an exciting virtual journey
through the circulatory system.
Combining these exhibits with project-oriented investigations, facilities for
customizing the program's information, access to productivity tools, and direct
links to related Internet sites, Human Body offers a focused, interactive
environment for exploring the health, structure, and processes of the human
body.
The
rationale
The
program is developed to enable students, between ten and fifteen years of age,
learn about the different life processes. Human Body is organized to
illustrate and explain the bodily functions of human beings. This program
uniquely combines health issues, medical technology, historical events in
medicine, and biological information. The knowledge base is organized around six
topics: Growth and Development, Energy, Defence, Circulation, Information
Processing, and Movement.
The
objectives of this program are:
- The
students will acquire scientific knowledge about human biology, health
issues, and medical technology.
- The
students will have an understanding of man's ability to affect his health
and enhance the quality of his life.
- The
students will gather information from a multimedia database, use this
information for personal tasks, and explore the Internet for additional
information.
- The
students will organize information, process it, and derive conclusions from
it.
Highlights
- A
rich learning environment that offers exhaustive information on the
structure and processes of the human body.
- A
virtual museum with multimedia knowledge base including narrations,
photographs, diagrams, audio visual elements, animated sequences, and slide
shows.
- An
activity centre that provides investigation ideas and tools for producing
projects.
- An
electronic glossary and a medical lexicon provide definitions of relevant
terms and concepts.
- Direct
access to external productivity tools -- a word processor, a drawing
program, presentation software, and a spreadsheet.
- Facilities
for customizing the program's information.
- Direct
links to related Internet sites.
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