Alzheimer's disease

Introduction

Today we will learn something more about one of the most diffuse illnesses for people over 60 years: the Alzheimer's disease.

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Task

You will have to prepare a PowerPoint presentation (10 slides) about the Alzheimer's disease, working in groups of 5 students. If the group is 6 person, the slides should be 12.

Each student of the group will have the responsibility of creating two slides on one of the following arguments (is the group is 6 persons, also the 6th point must be developed):

  1. a description of the main symptoms;
  2. the causes of the illness;
  3. the therapies;
  4. hopes for the future;
  5. the engagement of the families in caring for Alzheimer's patients;
  6. the costs borne by the National Health Care for the Alzheimer's patients.

Process

These are the materials you can use to complete the task:

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-alzheimer-s-disease-ivan-seah-yu-jun

Important: read the extra material on the Dig Deeper section.

Expand the field of investigation by taking all the necessary material from other accredited websites.

Indicate the complete bibliography in the 13th page of the presentation.

During the next lesson, after the description of your own work to the class, you will have to answer  a short written questionnaire (individually, not in group) on all the arguments of your PowerPoint presentation.

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Evaluation

In carrying out the task, keep in mind the following evaluation grids: you have to take the maximum in all the points!

The grids are written in Italian to make them more easily understood.

NOTA IMPORTANTE: se, per problemi tecnici, le griglie non dovessero comparire qui di seguito (nella pagina che state leggendo in questo momento), scaricare il file PDF "CLIL Book IT" dal sito www.profrobertoiaccarino.wordpress.com dalla sezione Biologia - sottosezione CLIL; le griglie sono riportate alle pagine 44-47 (vi conviene stamparle, per poter prendere atto, dopo la valutazione, dei vostri punti di forza e di debolezza).

* Le voci indicate con l'asterisco verranno valutate dal resto della classe.

Conclusion

Working on this webquest:

  1. you came into contact with one of the most important problems in our society, from different points of view;
  2. vou have become good searcher of good informations on the Internet;
  3. you have been able to create a summary of all this material in English;
  4. you have also learned a lot of new words, both in English and in L1;
  5. you have also developed you skills: a) in cooperating in a team to achieve a common goal; b)  in creating short and formally correct sentences in English; c) in creating a PowerPoint presentation in the correct way; d) in discussing a ppt presentation properly. c) and d) are essential for your final State exam.
Credits

This webquest has been created by Roberto Iaccarino, Science Teacher in a Scientific High School near Naples, Southern Italy.

Web Lesson from: ed.ted.com/lessons

Evaluation grids from: Clil4U – www.languages.dk, CLIL Book IT, European Union Lifelong Learning Programme.