Health and the Environment

Health and the Environment

Essential Question:
To what extent do genes play a role in determining disease risk?

Today, you are going to start reading an article about the possible environmental effects on genetics.

• As you read, annotate using the following parameters:

  • Highlight Green = Main Idea

  • Highlight Yellow = Supporting Idea

  • Circle = vocabulary word to look up; write in the margins

  • Underline = connection to learning; write in the margins

  • ? = question; write in the margins

  • ! = reaction; write in the margins
    

Open OneNote (Class Notebook) to read along with me.
5th Grading Period - Linking Health to the Environment

Multiple Choice

What can influence disease development according to the passage?

• color preference

• environmental factors

• school choice

• weather

Multiple Choice

What are perfluorinated chemicals commonly used for?

• Coating frying pans, food packaging materials, and fabrics

• Cleaning windows and floors

• Treating skin conditions

• Flavoring food products

Multiple Choice

What can affect our risk of disease according to the passage?

• school choice

• natural ingredients in foods

• color of food

• social media usage

Multiple Choice

What determines how an organism looks and acts?

• weather

• school choice

• genes

• Golgi Apparatus

Multiple Choice

Which factors determine who may develop certain diseases?

• Genes, behaviors, and environmental factors

• weather conditions and geographic location

• school choice and music preference

Multiple Choice

What are genes?

• Fragments of DNA that determine how an organism looks

• Proteins that help with digestion

• Carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables

• Vitamins essential for bone health

Multiple Select

What are some examples of environmental factors that can influence disease development? (Mark all that are correct)

• hair color and eye shape

• exposure to harmful chemicals

• food we eat and water we drink

• air we breathe

Multiple Choice

How can potentially toxic pesticides and pollutants enter our bodies?

• through lungs, skin, and nose

• through ears, eyes, and hair

• through feet, hands, and mouth

• through elbows, knees, and shoulders

Multiple Choice

Which chemical is commonly found in plastics, dental sealants, and thermal-printing paper (like a receipt)?

• Iron

• Vitamin C

• Bisphenol A (BPA)

• Calcium

Multiple Select

What can influence disease development according to the passage? Choose all that apply.

• food choices

• environmental factors

• weather conditions

• level of activity

Open Ended

1. 1. What is the purpose of the Child Health and Development Studies?

Open Ended

2.  What is unusual about the research?

Open Ended

3.  What have been two important things that scientists have learned through the study?

Open Ended

4.  What does the term cohort mean?

Open Ended

5.  What are three environmental factors that might affect a person’s health?

Open Ended

6.  What are at least two examples the story cites of chemicals in the environment that might harm health?

Open Ended

7.  What is an epidemiologist?

Open Ended

8.  What was the “Hunger Winter” famine, and what have scientists learned by observing the health of babies born during this period?

Open Ended

9.  Besides the Child Health and Development Studies, what are two other well-known cohort studies?

Open Ended

10.  What is one important limitation of observational studies?

Open Ended

Imagine that you were designing an observational cohort study to examine the effects of a certain chemical, called “XYZ,” starting with XYZ’s effects on newborn infants. Based on what you’ve learned about the strength and limits of such studies, what are two steps you might take to ensure that your results pointed to “causation” as opposed to just some “correlation”?