Research

Right
A Lesson Plan for Teaching Research Skills
to Students
 To explore concepts within the health and
physical activity curriculum as well as the
biological sciences

To engage senior years learners in critical

thinking concepts in relation to
information analysis
Objectives
To inform senior years learners of the
differences between fake health sites and
real health sites

To provide senior years learners with

some tools they can use when researching
health related issues
Biological Sciences and Physical Education

Biological Sciences Physical Education

Grade 11 Biology
Nutritional and Digestion
Cellular Respiration
Wellness and Homeostasis
Transportation and Respiration
Excretion and Waste Management
• Grade 9/10/11/12 Physical
Education
• Nutrition and Lifespan
• Sexuality and Health
• Mental Health
• Social and Peer
Influences/Behaviors
Spotting Fake News: Dr. Brian Goldman CBC News
Link Courtesy: You Tube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7ZTTQIR9k
CBC Link: https://gem.cbc.ca/media/the-investigators/season-2/episode-12/38e815a-
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Why Does it
Matter What
Research I
find?
"Eating Chocolate can even help
you lose weight"?...
Read the Following Story with the Class: Why A Journalist Scammed
The Media Into Spreading Bad Chocolate Science
Listen: To the interview given by the author
Courtesy: National Public Radio https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/28/410313446/why-a-
journalist-scammed-the-media-into-spreading-bad-chocolate-science
Why would the Journalist Mislead the Media?

"For far too long, the people who

Diet science, Bohannon stresses,
cover this beat have treated it like
is still science – and reporters
gossip, echoing whatever they
need to know how to cover it.
find in press releases. Hopefully
"You have to know how to read a
our little experiment will make
scientific paper — and actually
reporters and readers alike more
bother to do it,"
skeptical."
Questions to Answer
in One Note
• 1) If someone gave you a substance that
could help you study that was not labelled
would you take it? Why or Why not?
• 2) What could be some harmful side effects
of taking substances you don’t know about?
• 3) If you knew what the substance was how
could you find out more about it?
• 4) Where would you search for information
about the substance online?
• 5) What websites do you use and why?
Learning Science Vocabulary for Education

Vocabulary What is Science

• What is a Skeptic? • The intellectual and practical
• What is Peer Review? activity encompassing the
systematic study of the structure
• What is Science? and behaviour of the physical and
• What is an "Expert"? natural world through observation
and experiment- Oxford English
Dictionary

• https://kids.niehs.nih.gov/topics/h
ow-science-works/index.htm
Vocabulary
Skepticism....what is it?
Peer Review....How Come?
• a process by which something
proposed (as for research or
publication) is evaluated by a
group of experts in the
an attitude of doubt or a disposition to
incredulity either in general or toward a appropriate field- Merriam
particular object- Merriam Webster's Online Websters Dictionary
Dictionary

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• https://kids.frontiersin.org/
Exit Ticket- Should We
Always Trust Experts
Examples of Credible Health Information Sites
• Medline
Medical • Health Canada
• Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

• Eat Right Ontario

Nutrition • Unlock Food
• Examine.com

Mental/Emotional • Canadian Mental Health Association

• Open Mind – BC
Health • ADAM

• SERC
Sexuality • Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
• Rainbow Resource Centre