Mechanical Station 2.1: Communications Module
Mechnical Systems in Health
Measuring Range of Motion
- Module Goal: To apply medical terms and concepts related to measuring the range of motion and understanding your joints and movement.
- Materials Required: Computer with fast Internet connectivity.
- Applied Objectives: In completing this unit, you will...
- Interpret and analyze reading passages related to understanding your joints and movement.
- Identify the roots, prefixes, and suffixes for medical terms.
- Apply new medical terms in writing.
- Improve reading fluency through recordings of different kinds of passages.
- Write definitions.
- Write different kinds of sentences.
- Apply the skills of planning and organizing in writing.
- Apply the skill of summarizing in writing.
- Analyze reading passages.
- Pre-requisite knowledge- 6th grade reading level.
- Applied Terminology: Many new medical terms are introduced throughout this module. You will learn their meaning by breaking them into their parts, and then practice using them in different forms of sentences and in writing exercises.
- Evaluation: Activities submitted in this module will be evaluated by the number of items completed, by the percentage of correct answers, and by rubrics. A rubric is a table that shows you what you are being graded on. A rubric states exactly what is expected of you at different levels.
Note on Grading: You will receive three grades in each of your communications modules: (1) for a project graded by a rubric; (2) for an assigned activity(ies) graded for completion and correctness; and (3) for completing and submitting at least five activities from the activities labeled with the icon representing "5."
Activity graded by the % of correctness of your work
Activity graded by the rubric
Activities from which you can choose five to submit
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INTRODUCTION
In this station’s lab, you learned about movement and how to measure the range of motion of different kinds of joints.
Reflection
- Have you ever worked on your car, a bike, or your house? Did you ever crack open a nut? What kind of tools did you use? How are tools related to joints of the body? Discuss your ideas with your coach and/or another student.
- What did you learn in this station's lab about your own body and how it moves? How does your body act as a machine in the physical world?
- If you were to design your body the way you wanted, what would it look like? How would it act? Share your thoughts with your coach or another student
In the next module, you will complete a variety of reading and writing activities.
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Links to Station 2.1 Modules
Lab Intro | Lab Presentation and Practice | Communications Intro| Communications Presentation and Practice| Math