Human Disease Project Guidelines and Checklist

The Guidelines and lesson have been adopted and modified from the Human Disease Project by Curtis Schneider
Copyright ©Curtis R. Schneider, 1999 - 2010.   All rights reserved. http://www.curtis1.com

Guidelines

  • A basic description of the disease
  • Information on the background and history of the disease
  • The symptoms of the disease; how a person knows they have it
  • Any tests a health care provider would run to help diagnose the disease
  • How the disease affects the body
  • Cures or treatments for the disease
  • Current research to find a cure or better treatment for the disease
  • The age one normally gets this disease and how they get it
  • How a person's daily life is affected by the disease
  • Information on the cost of having the disease, such as for treatment, medications, hospitalization, etc.
Library Project Outcomes . . .

Please comment to his Blog post to verify you attending the Library Research Day on Friday, Feb. 24th.- if you miss this day it is your responsibility and opportunity to learn about the library resources, visit the resource librarian on the second floor of the library for support.

Tell me . . . number your responses . . . Thank you!!


  1. What one research tool/resource did you like the best?
  2. Did you get three resources and document them in YOUR Blog, with correct format??
  3. Did you find a source for statistical data on the disease? We will use the data later in Excel to create a chart.

Checklist

CONTENT CHECKLIST
_____ 2 to 3  page research paper on your human disease including the following advanced formatting to your research paper using Microsoft Word.
  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Header with Title
  4. Footer with Name, date and page numbers
  5. Use of Headings-Use Heading 1-Can customize
  6. Footnotes-Insert footnotes to cite your sources
  7. Images-use the images from the poster project
  8. Chart-created using Excel and your data
_____ interview (optional for extra credit)
_____ 2 diagrams (human body / mathematics oriented, one each; diagrams do not count towards the two pages)
_____ conclusion paragraph; counts as part of the two pages
_____ bibliography; does not count as part of the two pages
_____ notes you took during your research or papers/ websites you used for writing your report

Add a conclusion paragraph. Write about all of the following:  Why you chose this disease; the most interesting thing that you learned from doing the project; the most important source of information that you used to write your report; questions would you still like answered about this disease; what you feel are the strengths and weakness of your report

Human Disease Project Poster Example

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