THE SHORT LIST

This is a list of possible projects.  You can add to the list.  You don't have to use this list.

__ SLEEP
How much sleep did you get last night? 

__ BODY POSTURE
How many hours did you sit yesterday?

__ MENTAL INPUT
How much TV did you watch yesterday?  What is your plan for today?

__ EATING
How many servings of vegetables did you have?

__ TEETH
How many minutes did you spend while you flossed yesterday?  

__ BODY (exercise)
How many minutes of walking did you do?  

__ MENTAL ATTITUDE
How many Automatic Negative Thoughts did you have yesterday?  Did you speak back to those thoughts? 

__ WATER
How many glasses of water did you drink yesterday?

The goal is to find a project.  Connect BIOLOGY to your daily life.   What experiments are you running on your body?  
__ Give a link to articles and videos to show by references why these behaviors are good for you.  
__ What will you do to change your behavior to follow the advice?

What else can we observe about our daily choices?

HOW TO DO A PROJECT in SCIENCE
CREATE a poster to explain why the behavior is good for you.
TALK WITH YOUR MATH AND ENGLISH teachers to find out how you can expand the project and share the project with them and get more points from the same project in three subjects.
HISTORY:  What is the history of this advice?  (You can get points for your U.S. or World History course)
What happens in your body when you don't follow the advice?
EXAMPLE
SLEEP
ADVICE:  Get 7 hours of sleep
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I FOLLOW THE ADVICE:
I don't yawn during the day.
What parts of the body are affected by getting enough sleep.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DON'T FOLLOW THE ADVICE:
I sometimes fall asleep in the afternoon.  This is not good when I'm driving my car.
My adrenal glands do something ...  [put a photo of adrenals and explain what happens in the body]
Article about the impact of "a lack of sleep drunk person."

LINK

Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk - Forbes

www.forbes.com/sites/.../didnt-get-enough-sleep-you-might-as-well-be-drunk/

Forbes

Sep 4, 2013 - But how do you know just how much that lack of sleep is affecting your life? Fatigue Science, a startup from Vancouver, BC, has developed the ...

EXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE

How do you know just how much that lack of sleep is affecting your life?

Fatigue Science, a startup from Vancouver, BC, has developed the technology to do just that. After the death of his nephew as a result of a fatigue related accident, Fatigue Science co-founder Pat Byrne identified a gap in the way organizations managed workplace fatigue. 

Pat identified that some of the most comprehensive research and development in the area of sleep and fatigue had already been done by the US Military. The US Army spent 12 years and $18 million developing a biomathematical fatigue model now known as SAFTE (Sleep, Activity, Fatigue, Task, Effectiveness). SAFTE is a computer model that accurately predicts how your mind and body will act based on sleep quantity, sleep quality and the time of day sleep is obtained.

LINK to the company website

The company is based in Canada
730-1133 Melville St
Vancouver, BC  V6E 4E5
Canada


So I contacted the company

I'm a biology teacher.  I'd like to make a project to help students monitor their sleep.  Is there a low cost way of participating?  Can I get 10 of these wristbands?  I have not read very much of your website, but I'd like to give a project to my students.  I have already created a summary of some of the articles about your project in Forbes.  That's how I learned about your project.  I plan to show the articles to my students and ask for ten volunteers to wear the bands if we can purchase them at cost or if they can be provided to us in exchange for making a project and publicizing the project in our blogs and social media.  

I look forward to your reply.    We are located in Florida  
Suned High School  
2360 West Oakland Park Blvd  
Oakland Park, FL  33311  
Attn:  Global Skills Biology Department  
Steve McCrea Biology Teacher  

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.   (954) 646 8246    Our sister school   SunEd High Margate, wants to participate too.

Steve McCrea
SunEd High School









The posters will evolve.
Our schools have LAN SCHOOL, which allows a poster or PDF to be displayed on every student's screen.  What messages will we post to students?

What can we teachers post that will be read?
How can we invite students to create material that will be read?
How can we make sure we don't overwhelm students with too much information?
What broadcast can we create?


What habits can we reinforce?
How can we change our behaviors?