Video Games And Social Media Hurt Teens’ Sleep, Study Says “People don’t make up their lost sleep.”

(Reuters Health) - Teens who play video games before bedtime go to bed later and those who use online social media take longer to fall asleep, according to a recent study.

Marijuana Not Benign: Warn Teens, Parents, AAP Says

As the legal status of marijuana evolves, pediatricians should counsel teenagers and their parents about its potential for harm, write the authors of a new clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Teenage binge drinking can affect brain function of future offspring

Repeated binge drinking during adolescence can affect brain functions in future generations, potentially putting offspring at risk for such conditions as depression, anxiety, and metabolic disorders, a study has found.

Mindfulness for teens

Discovering your inner strenght and learn to manage your stress with simple techniques

9 Insightful Quotes From Teens Who Really ‘Get It’

Adults are starting to recognize the depth and wisdom teenagers can share with the world.

Montag, 20. November 2017

And what about nutrition?

Before approaching the nutrition unit, I thought it could be a good idea to survey the students in order to find out which are the myths and facts they are familiar with, which are their actual habits and their own perception about their nutritional requirements. We used Google forms and these were the very interesting results. GOOD NEWS! MOST OF THE KIDS THINK THEY...

Dyslexia, so present, so challenging

Dyslexia is a learning disability which challenges students, parents and teachers. It is just part of the human diversity, its different and unique ways of learning, processing. Understanding our differences and knowing how to managing and integrating them, smoothens the way for kids that were not fully understood. Still, there are many prejudices and misconceptions about...

Scleroderma, autoimmune and lethal

Autoimmune diseases are not easy. Not easy to understand, not easy to treat, almost impossible to cure. Scleroderma is a progressive autoimmune disease that heavily affects the quality of life of the patients, with uncertain prognosis and multiple symptoms, difficult symptomatical treatment and a lot to know and care and understand. This is why Renata Leone Dodero, Natalia...

Ever heard about ANISAKIASIS?

Neither did the group that had this infectious disease assigned: Ivana Saggion, Carolina Kramer and Franco Barrera.  A parasitic disease,transmitted by uncooked fish, that can cause such severe painful symptoms that you can even take them for an ulcer or a cancer. It´s only about worms. Finding the information was a difficult task, but this group was able to produce a...

Sindrome Urémico Hemolítico-a campaign that impacted the community

The entherohemorrhagic E.coli syndrome is unfortunately a highly prevalent and preventable disease in Argentina. Produced by a strain of E.coli that causes severe renal failure and even death in children population below 5 years old. Catalina Papini, Lucía Nogales and Delfina Ernst were totally engaged with this disease. At first, they found it cool to have a disease assigned...

Meningitis-a pure talent campaign

Meningitis is a transmittable disease, caused by bacteria or virus. Those of us that are like 40 years old, are familiar with this term, our mothers made us the stiff-neck test everytime we had high fever and headache, scared about this deadly phantom: meningitis. Nowadays, many vaccines are available and mandatory,but they still do not protect against all types of meningitis....

Hepatitis-a disease that can kill "despacito"

Hepatitis is a viral infection that affects the liver and can cause major problems. There are 5 different kinds of virus that cause hepatitis, and there is also alcohol-induced hepatitis or other less common causes. Mica Stieglitz, Camila Rosolen and Juan Lucas Verschoor prepared this infographic, after doing exhaustive research on other international hepatitis campaigns to...

Tuberculosis, a disease unfortunately still actual

Tuberculosis is well known for its relevance in many epochal movies. Many of us remember the charmant Nicole Kidman coughing blood (hemoptysis) in Moulin Rouge. Unfortunately, the appearence of TB-resistant mycobacteria gives this transmittable disease a new dimension. Giuliana Müller, Francesca Burgues and Alexa Elicegui Holm prepared this infographic, using a known format...

Pediculosis- an elegant name for an itchy infection

We all heard about lice, but few know that lice is an ectoparasitic infection called pediculosis. Yes, it is a disease, and infectious disease. And there are ways to prevent it. The most common infectious disease in our school, with abnormal high prevalence. Let´s do something about it: look at this campaign designed by Katja Guthmann, Pilar Schang and Renate Baumgarten, our...

Tourette-famous by a movie

When 4D students got their cognitive disorders assigned, there was one group (Agustín Ramirez Calvo, Calvin Steel, Tommi Caffarelli and Tobías Kühlcke) who asked me if they could do a research on Tourette Syndrome. They had seen a movie and were intrigued by this difficult to understand tic-based neurological disorders. Of course, I agreed! Here is the phantastic infographic,...

What about Melanoma?

Melanoma, the worst type of skin cancer, but the easiest to detect and to prevent on time. A great prevention campaign by Sofía Aguirre and Alex Thomsen. You can do something about it! Watch this infographic and navigate their website.https://sofiaa08.wixsite.com/melanoma (A special mention to the artistic talent of Sofi, who painted the scary melanoma pattern on Alex´s...

Lupus, an unknown and scary disease

The students at 4E worked on autoimmune diseases. A beautiful campaign based on an image concept to raise attention and impact, designed by Valentina Arcangeli, Tobías Miranda and Selena Barreto Barrios, with the inclusion of a QR code linking to the website they designed to offer detailed information about this disease, symbolized by the butterfly. ...

Autism- an awareness campaign by 4D

Sol Guaita, María Rodillo, Sophia Kahn and Nicolás Block used the greenscreen technique to set up this campaign, showing how isolation determines the feeling of people with autism. backstage of the photoshooting ...

Lymphoma and Leukemia Campaign

Thanks, Agustín Cabantous and Félix Cavanagh, 4C, for this great graphic campaign. Don´t forget to visit https://leucemiaylinfoma.wixsite.com/campania ...

Sonntag, 10. September 2017

HERE THEY GO! HE SexED teams of 4B!

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4D- PRESENTINGTHE SexED Teams!

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Montag, 28. August 2017

Sexual consent: case analysis

Scenario 1: Rose and Miguel had been going out for several months.  They had “hooked up” in the past. Rose has expressed to Miguel on several occasions that she desires to remain a virgin until marriage.  They often sleep at each others rooms, in the same bed.  On some of these occasions they kiss and hold each other.  On at least one occasion the touching went further to touching genital areas.  On this night, Rose and...

Sonntag, 18. Juni 2017

Hantavirus

Hantavirus Una vez que el hantavirus llega a los pulmones puede ser muy peligroso y en más de la mitad de todos los casos mueren Cuando la infección causa insuficiencia renal, los médicos pueden tratarla con ribavirina para reducir el riesgo de muerte. Cuando la infección llega a los pulmones tienen que dar oxígeno al paciente y en el peor de los casos invacción Las causas son la inhalación o el contacto directo como una mordedura.Los síntomas...

Montag, 1. Mai 2017

Infections and defenses

Dear all Today I invite you to view this  powerpoint presentation that I shared with you via goethemail. It summarizes more or less what we have been talking about infections, immunity and vaccines. If you want to get more detail, you are invited to view the videos again: Kurzgesagt: the immune system and How do vaccines work? Of course, nobody...

Sonntag, 30. April 2017

Look Around, What do you see?

The last few weeks the clases 4E and 4C have been observing some behaviors and actions from a group of persons mostly people around the age of 15. And what´s more we counted how many times anyone in that group completes one of those actions/behaviors. These are the results!! As we can see these actions might facilitate the spreading of germs, for instance;...

Mittwoch, 26. April 2017

What do we know about immunity and vaccines?

In the past lessons we have been working on the topics IMMUNITY and VACCINES. We did some Visible Thinking Routine in teamwork: I think -what do you know about the immune system? Now I think- after seeing two videos what do you learned and know better? I wonder- do you still have questions? Let´s have some feedback about this unit!  What did you...

Mittwoch, 15. März 2017

Are the smartphones the new generation drugs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/health/teenagers-drugs-smartphones.html?smid=tw-share&register=google Please read this interesting article. What is your opinio...

Mittwoch, 8. März 2017

What will happen in our health class this year

You, the students, will be making this subject. Your interests, questions, fears, we will work on them together. My idea is that you will only be engaged if you feel yourselves part of the design. And here is your feedback about your personal interests and inquiries on the syllabus I presented you. Thanks for getting involved! ...

Montag, 6. März 2017

Finding and evaluating valuable online health resources

You feel sick. You have symptoms. A rash, fever, strange feelings, feeling sad or anxious, insomnia, headache, whatever-ache. Or some symptoms that embarass you. One of the symptoms or more, or other. You don´t want to bother your parents, they are having enough troubles. You grab your cell phone and search. Search terms: two or three symptoms. You see the first or in the...

Welcome!

Dear all, I address you all, and not only the students of the 4th year, because the purpose of this blog is to start a new approach in health education at our school. And this ambitious project includes YOU, my student of 4C, or 4D, or 4 whatever, but also your family, other teachers, authorities, the entire school community. But most important, think about the global audience... about the impact your research this year might have beyond the walls...