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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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