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What factors contribute to differences in the health outcomes of respiratory diseases within the US?

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What factors contribute to differences in the health outcomes of respiratory diseases within the US?

Is Lesson Plan High School

Sensemaking Checklist

What is Sensemaking?

Sensemaking is actively trying to figure out how the world works (science) or how to design solutions to problems (engineering). Students do science and engineering through the science and engineering practices. Engaging in these practices necessitates that students be part of a learning community to be able to share ideas, evaluate competing ideas, give and receive critique, and reach consensus. Whether this community of learners is made up of classmates or family members, students and adults build and refine science and engineering knowledge together.

Lesson Snapshot

This is Lesson 4 of the Using Data to Understand and Improve Health Outcomes Unit.

High school students, as scientists, design an investigation to identify patterns to answer the following driving question: What factors contribute to differences in the health outcomes of respiratory diseases within the US? Students begin by looking at maps of different communities to find similarities and differences in community resources. To begin to explain these differences, students decide to look at data at a smaller scale – moving from looking at county-level data to neighborhood-level data. Students share their observations about resource availability in different neighborhoods. Finally, students decide they need to collect more data at the neighborhood level before they can define the relationship between the availability of each resource and differences in health outcomes. 

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