Thursday, October 29, 2015

Chapter 7, Lesson 4: Noncommunicable Diseases

Years ago Communicable Diseases were the main "killer" that people had to worry about. However modern medicine has come up with ways to treat these diseases.  So now the main diseases people need to worry about are Noncommunicable Diseases.

Turn to page 174 and jot down the five vocabulary words:

Cancer
Allergy
Asthma
Diabetes
Arthrithis
Heart Disease

Now go ahead and watch this short video:

Noncommunicable Diseases in a Minute





After you watch the video go back to the text, and with your partner, look up each of these vocabulary words and jot down a definition for each of them in your STEM journal.  You'll need to skim over each page to find the word and its definition.

Now go take this quiz to see what you know!

NCD Quiz


Arthritis is a disease of the joints

















Diabetes happens because your body can't process sugar.

















Heart Disease is the clogging of the body's arteries.

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