Advanced Health Fair

Students educate their peers on relevant health issues

Advanced Health students presented their final projects to their peers and teachers at a health fair held on Thursday, April 26. The topics of the presentations included: Alzheimer’s, autism, mindfulness, nutrition, smoking and alcohol use. Each of the interactive presentations invited guests to partake in an activity, which either demonstrated symptoms or management techniques of the health issue being presented.

Seniors Gianna Deni and Maura Palmer, who presented on Alzheimer’s disease, had students place socks in their shoes, put sunglasses, headphones and gloves on, and then had them try to complete simple tasks such as putting a belt on or folding a dish towel. Each of the items visitors put on represented some of the other health issues associated with Alzheimer’s that cause additional challenges for those who have the disease. For example, the socks and gloves represented arthritis, the sunglasses – glaucoma, and the headphones – mental distraction.

Other activities at the health fair included exercising while breathing through a straw to simulate the effects of smoking, shooting a basketball with vision-altering glasses to demonstrate the effects of alcohol, a nutrition game that required participants to match a specific meal to its calorie count, and Perler beads crafting to relax the mind.

The focus of Advanced Health – a seniors-only course – is on taking personal responsibility for your health, including lifestyle factors and their relationships to well-being, behaviors, and disease. Additional topics students tackled throughout the semester included personal and community health, communication skills for productive relationships, identifying and reporting suspected child abuse/maltreatment, and Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Legislation Certification.

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