LEHIGH CAREER

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LEHIGH CAREER TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

• MAKING THE DIFFERENCE IN EDUCATION!

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COMPOSITION

• 9 sending schools
• Over 2300 students
• Half day education
• Comprises of rural, urban, and suburban areas

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HEALTH RELATED TECHNOLOGY

• 3 year program
• Integrating science, math, English standards
• Students involved in SKILLS USA VICA, HOSA,
  National Youth Tobacco Institute, Junior
  Operation Heartbeat team of the American Heart
  Association
• Medical areas comprises of Nurse Aide program,
  Home Health Aide, Pharmacy Technician, Health
  Unit Coordinator, Physical Therapy Aide, Medical
  Assisting, Dental Assisting, and Surgical
  Technician

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Integrating Science and English standards

• PA proposed academic standards in Science
  Technology , Math, Reading and Writing
• Explaining the functional and structural
  relationship within our body
• Explain the genetic component
• Explains the environmental component of bodily
  changes
• Assess the effectiveness of Computer/Technological
  Communication

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Operation Heartbeat Junior team
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How did we get started?

• Getting involved with the American Heart
  Associations Operation Heartbeat
• What are the needs of community to promote
  healthy heart living?
• Who will we target?
• What will be our focus?

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What does the experts say?

• People know that heart disease is the No. 1
  killer of Americans, but they dont fully realize
  that its a silent process that begins in
  childhood, says lead author Christine L.
  Williams, M.D., M.P.H., immediate past chair of
  the American Heart Associations Committee on
  Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in the
  Young.

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Who is are target group?

• Brain-storming unleashed the true fact that we
  need to educate our young people
• What age? 5th and 6th graders
• What can we discuss with them?
• How can we utilize what we learned in the class
  to share with these kids?

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What did we learn that we could teach the kids?

• Anatomy and Physiology Learning about the
  heart, the function of the heart and what can
  interfere with heart function.
• How can we show them because we learn better by
  seeing? Cows heart, hmmm!

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Task Healthy Heart Living

• Exit Outcome Given theory, demonstrations, and
  equipment, the student will perform heart healthy
  living techniques
• Enabling Objectives Given a diagram of the
  heart, the cows heart, information on the
  structure and function of the heart and lungs and
  the life style that will promote healthy heart
  living, the student will identify ways to become
  heart smart in order to live healthier lives.

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Content Work

• Review the anatomy of the heart and lungs
• Show a cows heart to visualize
• Demonstrate different functions of the heart
• Show what can interfere with the functions of the
  heart and what tests can be done for analyzing
  function
• Demonstration heart model, straw test,
  cholesterol test, techniques to be heart smart,
  cracker rub

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Academic Standards

• Pennsylvania academic standards
• English
• Math
• Science
• 3.7.1.2,1.1.11, 1.4.11D, 1.6.11A through E,
  1.8.11, 2.11.8

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Essential questions and Concepts

• What do you think of when you hear someone
  mention heart attack?
• What does the heart look like and how does it
  function?
• What prevents the heart from functioning the way
  that it should?
• What can you do to prevent cholesterol buildup?
• Where does cholesterol come from?
• What is healthy heart living?

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Instruction

• What will be the most effective way for a student
  to learn this concept. Lets put them through
  the test.
• Let them do the cracker rub, the straw breathing
  test, let them actually see the amount of fat in
  their body and review the impact of the food that
  they may be eating and help them analyze the fat
  content.
• Lets find their target heart zone and exercise!

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Resources

• American Heart Association
• Americanheart.heartpower.com

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Heart Healthy Caring
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Its your life now! Whats your choice?

• Eat healthy
• Exercise
• Dont smoke
• Develop eustress not distress

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THE ROAD TO A HEALTHY HEART
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Your diet

• Fats unsaturated better than saturated and trans
• Limit fat intake to 40 grams/day
• Decrease salt intake
• Eat in moderation
• Omega 3 fish oils
• Fruits Vegetables

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When does cholesterol start building up?

• Research has found that cholesterol starts to
  build in our vessels in the teenage years
• What is cholesterol?
• What should the level of blood cholesterol in our
  system?
• Cholesterol blocks the blood flow in our vessels.
  What will happen then.

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Tools for better understanding

• Cracker rub for fats
• Use of the doppler for blood flow of the heart
• Brainstorm where the students most popular place
  for fast foods. Have samples of the nutritional
  analysis of each place and let them read how much
  fat there is in the product

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Other class involvement

• Healthy Cooking demonstration by Culinary Arts
• Demonstrate how to reduce fats when cooking or
  alternative to fats
• Samples of healthy snacks that kids can make
  having them analyze the nutritional analysis of
  the snack thus incorporating math standards.

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• Joshua Arndt, LCTI Culinary Arts Graduate
• National Vocational-Technical Honor Society
  Member
• NVTHS President 2002 2003
• American Culinary Federation Junior Member

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Smoking and You!

• What is so bad in cigarettes? Lets name a few
  because there is over 4000 toxic chemicals!
  Chemistry standards involvement
• Arsenic rat poison
• Acetone found in nail polish remover
• Carbon monoxide poisonous gas
• Formaldehyde embalm dead bodies
• Hydrogen Cyanide poison used in gas chambers
• Naphthalene used to make explosives

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Impact of Smoking on the Heart

• Review the anatomy of the lungs and its function
• Explain how smoking affects the lungs
• Explain the effects of emphysema on a person
• Have the students do the straw test
• Show the students their oxygen content with a
  pulse oximeter and the impact if they smoke or if
  they are the victim of second hand smoking

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Exercise

• Make exercise fun get the family involved
• 30 minutes a day for 4 to 6 days in a week
• Take their target heart zone to determine their
  effectiveness subtract your age from 220 and
  divide by 6. During exercise your heart should
  work at 60 65 of the maximum rate for
  mid-level training. For top level training, your
  heart should work between 70 85

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How did we incorporate the standards?

• First, Learning needs to be fun in order to
  retain.
• Science anatomy of the heart and lungs using
  the cows heart, doppler, pulse oximeter,
  analysis of the diets and chemicals needed for a
  cigarette
• Math Calculating fat intake in the nutritional
  analysis of food, target heart zone calculations
• English Preparing the presentation, public
  speaking

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Feedback from the kids

• I really learned a lot and your students
  inspired me to look at food labels. Now I am
  going to try to take better care of myself. When
  I got home, I told everyone what we did!
• I didnt know there was so much to learn about
  the heart. The devices helped me to really
  understand the heart and lungs. I appreciate
  you coming here. What you do is so amazing!
• I didnt know how unhealthy cholesterol was!

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Its Your Life Now! Whats Your Choice?

• You make some decisions with your heart,
• Others with your mind!
• But every step you take
• Affects your life!
• Look which way you are going
• Think
• Eat Healthy, Exercise, and Dont Smoke

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Its Your Life Now!

• You can make the right decision
• Think Smart!
• Eat Heart Healthy!
• Play Heart Healthy!
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• LIVE YOUR LIFE NOW.HEART HAPPY!

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• For a copy of todays presentation please visit
  www.careerpathway.org and access the Countywide
  Sharing page.
• Todays presentation is titled Kids Educating
  Kids Heart to Heart