Health in Hong Kong

Year 8 Island Health UnitDeveloping your Collaborative

skills and understanding health

Collaborative skills In your groups brainstorm what are some important features of

collaboration using the brainstorming map

Type in this address: http://padlet.com/jenniech/goodcollaboration

Agree on your table and add your comments

Health in Hong Kong We will use our collaborative skills to find about about health in Hong Kong.

Collaborative skills includes

1) Working with others

2) Quality of work

3) Problem solving

4) Focus on the task

5) Preparedness

6) Monitors group effectiveness

Rubric for Developing your Collaborative skills

Health in Hong Kong In your groups brainstorm different aspects of health in Hong Kong

A) Bowen Road Storyboard B) Hike Aberdeen with Citizen Survey D) Po Kong Village Road ParkWeek 5 and 6 are working on projects

Your Project After the three excursions you will be working on a “Health in Hong Kong”

Website. You will be working in the same group for the entire Health unit.

What do you need to include in your website? Page 1- About Us and The Health HK unit.

This contains a photo/ video of all the members of your group .In it you should describe the unit in overview and give some reasons as to why you’re a studying this topic.

What do you need to include in your website? Page 2- Culture Factual Questions What provision does the SAR government provide for sports and leisure? What are the risks and benefits involved in hiking from Magazine Gap Road down into Aberdeen? C What ways is HKSAR presently disposing of its waste? S C Conceptual Questions How do you explain the relationship between economic factors (ie earning minimum wage, or above) and healthy lifestyle choices? N C Why should the HK government promote healthy life style? C N How will HKSAR deal with the future crisis of waste disposal with an ever growing population? C S What might be the impact of over time on the Hong Kong population? C S N

What do you need to include in your website? Page 3- Sustainability Factual Questions

What are the Eco challenges that the HKSAR faces? S

What ways is HKSAR presently disposing of its waste? S C

Conceptual Questions

Why should the HK government promote healthy life style? C N

How will HKSAR deal with the future crisis of waste disposal with an ever growing population? C S

What might be the impact of over time on the Hong Kong population? C S N

What do you need to include in your website? Page 4 Nutrition Factual Questions

What are the nutritional options in Aberdeen based on a budget of 2 hours HK minimum wage? N

Conceptual Questions

How do you explain the relationship between economic factors (ie earning minimum wage, or above) and healthy lifestyle choices? N C

Why should the HK government promote healthy life style? C N

What might be the impact of over time on the Hong Kong population? C S N

What do you need to include in your website? Page 5 Personal Reflections on Health in Hong Kong and your collaborative skills

This page is your opportunity to think further and deeper and to explore around some of the issues this topic has raised. You could consider these questions or make up your own.

How else does the HK government promote good health?

Whose responsibility is it to make Hong Kong healthier?

How can we as citizens of the SAR and students of Island School promote any related improvements?

What ideas/ recommendations can you give to improve the Health of Hong Kong?

What recommendations can you give to make Hong Kong more eco-friendly?

What are the current issues in the media that relate to health in Hong Kong?

Agree disagree and don’t know The main skills area we are working on is

communication

Agree disagree and don’t know One of the descriptors for communication

is problem solving

Agree disagree and don’t know Your project for the health unit is a 12

page website

Agree disagree and don’t know You will be working in the same groups

every week

Agree disagree and don’t know This unit is about Health in the school

Agree disagree and don’t know There are three excursions for the Health

unit which will involve visiting going to Aberdeen and cycling in Pokong.

Agree disagree and don’t know You will be given three weeks to work on

your website in school