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Reproductive Health

Posted by Mya Bulgin in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on
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For our PSA we were assigned reproductive health. With that broad topic, We directed our focus on reproductive health for women. The reason we chose that specific topic is because in today's society, many politicians have made attempts to restrict many resources that pertain the health of women.

At first finding sources with different facts due to overwhelming amount of articles that only spoke about the political side of the reproductive health of women. After digging, we managed to find reliable sources that talked about multiple topics about reproductive health.

The physical progress of recording was the hard part. We didn't know the direction of the PSA we wanted to take. We also didn't know how to use the equipment which led us to doing a voiceover with our phones because it saved time.

The good part about the project is that everyone contributed. I wrote some of the questions, typed out the interview answers we got from our interviewee, found sources, recorded two transitions and edited the script. My role could have been a lot bigger but I was quite busy with my capstone.  

The only thing I wish we done differently is choose a different place to record the interview because it was extremely noisy which made it difficult for me to hear the answers and type them out. That was the only thing I wished we did differently. Everything else in my opinion was great. The most meaningful part of the PSA was actually hearing the what the interviewee had to say about her field and incorporating that to our PSA.


https://www.wevideo.com/view/1155623310

Jake Ashenfelter Q4 Benchmark

Posted by Jake Ashenfelter in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
Video: 

Reflection: 
For this project we talked about teenage pregnancy. We talked about the effects that teenage pregnancy has on both the teenager and the child that is born. For our interview we interviewed Tyrone's mom who experienced teenage pregnancy herself. We tried to find out how teenage pregnancy affected public health while connecting it to personal experiences. For this project, I worked on creating the script, doing research, and finding pictures and other things to place in the video in the background of the interview. I would have made sure we addressed more of the public health issue rather than personal experiences if I had to do this project again. The most meaningful part of this PSA was learning personal experiences of people that actually went through this. 

https://youtu.be/RjI7456GxRw

Reproductive Health

Posted by Kai Lambert in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on

 

Our PSA on reproductive health consists of general facts about the public health topic on several different issues pertaining to it. These issues revolve around the lack of coverage women ge for reproductive health under healthcare, the outside factors that are trying to strip away the few rights women have to reproductive treatment, the lack of awareness and teaching, and what clinics are doing to help provide women when it comes to reproductive health. We chose this topic as a group because we are all women and it is something that affects us right now under an administration with policies and politics that are attacking our reproductive healthcare rights. We live in a time where we have to fight harder to protect those rights which is why we chose this topic. It personally relates to us and we wanted to spread awareness.


I helped with the project by doing preliminary research and creating questions for the interview as well as conducting the interview myself. When I reflect back on what I did well, I would say that I did well helping to come up with good questions that would prompt concise and insightful information. I could have begun some things earlier in the process if I am being completely honest. The most meaningful part of the experience of creating the PSA was learning more about a topic that affects me so personally especially someone of my ethnicity and socio-economic standing. Due to the factors that inhibit reproductive healthcare such as politics and religious overbearings targeting reproductive health clinics, biased funding, and false research, reproductive health is a huge topic because it affects everyone and it barely being covered by our healthcare plan.


Reproductive Health Care

Posted by Haniah Jones in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on

The reason why I wanted to research reproductive health and create a PSA about it is because I feel that the topic is extremely overlooked by society. Reproductive health goes much deeper than just sex and pregnancies, it’s also about educating the adolescents. Our interviews played such a huge role in proving our point of teens not really understanding what reproductive health is, they just had a slight idea. And this is part of the issue that my group members and I want to bring to the light. If we want our teens and young adults to stay healthy, we have to teach them how to. The first way i helped contribute to my group was firstly by picking the topic. For about half of the first project day, we couldn’t decide on what to do. So we wanted to be different yet still be interesting and innovative. Other than helping creative the interview questions and the script, i think that I was the creative person providing many different ideas on how to present our PSA. Lastly, I would say that I was the motivation for my group members. I was the one who initiated our project work time during class and outside of class.


Something that we did well on was gaining knowledge on our topic and fully understanding the problems with reproductive health. Majority of our project work time all we did was research, research, and more research. This is because this topic is so broad so there are many things that fall into this category. So honestly we were just trying to take it all in. This happens to be a good thing and a bad thing because while we spent so many days researching, it took away from the days of us getting started on our scripts and interviews. So this is one thing I would do differently next time. The most meaningful part of this project for me would be not only educating myself on this topic but others. When I read about all the negative statistics staggered against African Americans, it truly upset me. However even though it upset me, it also gave me motivation to want to spread the word to my peers.


https://youtu.be/E0XFUJA4--0

Anatomy Benchmark: Teen Pregnancy

Posted by Saphira Paul-Fils in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on
​Anatomy Benchmark: Teen Pregnancy

On this benchmark, I had a really good group once again. We all had split the work into sections based on the checkpoints for example if there were 8 questions to be answered we each would be assigned questions to answer. For one of the checkpoints, I was in charge of finding local Teen Pregnancy resources to call that we could possibly interview. What I did well was finding good resources to use, what I could have acted differently was telling myself that I need to dress this benchmark done because I was over it at one time. The most meaningful part of creating this PSA was actually finding resources that focused on helping teenage parenthood that didn't have the help they needed.

Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tOM6MBAYpA

Human Anatomy Benchmark

Posted by Yinka Hollinger in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
Trey Hollinger
I chose pharmaceutical drug overdose or my project because I felt like drug overdose is actually very important but it is a problem that is overlooked by many.     I did not know the statistical data such as how many people overdose from these drugs each year so I wanted to know more about the issue on pharmaceutical drug overdose, who was out there trying to put an end to these overdoses, and why these overdose were happening at such a constant rate. I also wanted to know if this was a problem that more related to minors or if even adults were significantly affected by overdosing on these prescribed drugs. 
I truly contributed to the group by basically doing the entire project. I worked very hard on the research part of the benchmark, I constructed a way to include important details that would make our Benchmark even more informative, and I put the video together in the end. We all did well on interviewing, specifically I took the time to interview the nurse thoroughly but a lot of the content she gave couldn't be included into the video. I believe I did well on finding credible sources and evidence, finding sources who provided information that was factual and less about bias, and by putting together a video that was informative but didn't go too far past the time limit. Though, in the future I would try to get this done a lot sooner we didn't wait until the last minute but didn't put enough effort into getting the job done a lot sooner than the day before the project was due. 
The most meaningful part of the project was getting new intel and new perspective on the topic, before I used to think only drugs maintained illegally throughout the streets were the issues but now I know even over the counter drugs when used improperly can be quite harmful to the public's health. 

After gaining this knowledge it makes me want to do something about it as if it slowly has awoken the activist inside of me, though I am no superman and cannot save everyone, this kind of topic makes me want to learn more about the importances of pharmaceutical opioid overdose, and spread the word for helping prevention of this issue.
Topic of Video:
The video created was on the overdose on pharmaceutical drugs and how it is affecting us. We explained the different ways drug overdosing is affected the community, the statistics on opioid overdose, and what solutions we have as for what can be done to help prevent drug overdose

Jade Harris: Q4 Benchmark final submission

Posted by Jade Harris on
For my final project, My group and I decided to make a PSA about teen pregnancy. Within the video contains a skit that is symbolic to the way society treats teen pregnancy, along with multiple facts and resources for anyone who is interested in getting information. I chose this topic because throughout my 4 years of high school, I have seen so many of peers struggle with unhealthy relationships, and how to take care of themselves. The lack of education that is given to us, I think we are blessed to have survived this far. In the group, provided information, wrote part of the script and directed/edited the video. I did well with communicating with my group and giving/taking opinions on what could be done. The most meaningful part for me was creating the skit in the beginning of the video because it was so much fun to make with my peers, and also had a deeper meaning to it so we were able to provide depth within the PSA.

Anatomy Benchmark: Motor Vehicle Injury

Posted by Ngozi Enwereji in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on
​Our PSA was about motor vehicle injuries as a public health issue. Many organizations feel like it's not taken seriously. The video below contains an informative skit and a short interview from a motor safety advocating organization.
The work for this project was done equally among all group members. We each did 1and 1/3 worth of a current event, we all created questions, and did one specific aspect of the video. For me, it was editing.
We did really good research in terms of looking for information and looking for organizations. The most challenging part would be the fact that almost all of the organizations we called never get back into contact with us after we left them information.
The most meaningful part about this project is researching an issue you already know about and constantly being surprised about the other problems that lie beneath. 

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNFobhUAHk  

Prescription Drug Abuse PSA - Zack and Emanuel

Posted by Zack Waxler in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvtAOegZG0Q​


Our video is essentially a breakdown of the common types of prescription drugs that are being abused and how these epidemics came to be/affect the country. We researched the effects of all three major classes of prescription drugs and found out how the government is attempting to handle issues revolving around prescription drugs. For our interview, we talked to a woman who leads an organization that promotes the battle against prescription drug abuse. Honestly I didn’t have a good reason to chose this topic, I just thought it would be an interesting thing to research.



I created the video for this project and wrote some of the script.


I think we did a good job creating the script to inform people about the facts of these drugs instead of just saying “these are bad”. I think we could have asked her more specific questions about the different drugs that we were looking at as we only got general statements about two of the main types.

For me the most meaningful part of the process was getting to interview with someone so passionate about what they believed in.



Q4 Benchmark

Posted by Ravaana Griggs in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on

Abdulomar Tucker, RaVaana Griggs, Philamena Seals

Ms.Aziz

Human Anatomy

May 22, 2018

Write - Up

Our video was about Water Sanitation. In our video, we basically informed our viewers what water sanitation was and how it was a big issue that was receiving little attention. We also gave a quick tip to our views on how we could as a collective sustain healthy water. We chose this topic because it was something that wasn’t given much life so our PSA would give the topic a stage .In my group, I helped lay the structure for our video and put in lots of work for our checkpoints. I think we could have had better time management besides that everything was fine. The most meaningful part of this project is the knowledge gained from going through with it. I have learned about how important the issue is and it has made me want to brainstorm some solutions.

For our benchmark we decided to do a PSA on water sanitation. In our video we included a conversation amongst the group members talking about what water sanitation is, how it’s sanitized and why it’s important. In my opinion water sanitation is the most important topic because of how necessary water is to all species. For the project, I got us in contact with a PWD worker and came up with questions to interview him. I then interviewed him and got information on how philadelphia's sanitizes water. Me and my group worked well together and turned everything on time. We could have started recording for our PSA earlier, but we didn’t.  The most meaningful part to this PSA was learning how much work goes into something as simple as clean water.

Below is the link to our video:
https://youtu.be/EGqGoJt8m1w

Public health Benchmark

Posted by Vernika Barrow in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on
For this benchmark me and my group were required to pick and research a topic related to public health. One we deemed important was sanitation.  Sanitation we found is know as the process in which cleanliness is taken into consideration of ones health. We researched so current related issue to our topic and came up with a PSA to inform others of the issue. I contributed to the project by having the role of research on our topic. I did well in the area of finding factual evidence to support our claims. Where I could use some improvement is using class time more effectively. The most meaningful part of the experience was learning something new that I we could be able to inform others on. Factors that effect public health is the impact humans have on the environment.

Q4 Final Art Project

Posted by Ivana Gutierrez in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on
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For the fourth quarter, we were told to recreate something that our artist had done or created. I chose to do Frida Kahlo. I study Frida Kahlo and looked at all her paintings and her history. She is someone that people can look up to, she was in an accident and still proceeded to live her life even after she was depressed. She started her painting career while she always in bed. She would always paint of the reality that is occurring around her. I also choose her because we come from the same background and culture and it’s nice learning from someone who comes from where you come from. I got inspired to paint Frida Kahlo but just half of her face. I used bright colors too because I think she might have liked it. I painted the background orange and I painted some flowers on her head which are red and one yellow. I thought it would be nice to paint her instead of a portrait of myself because I believe I wouldn’t do a good job painting myself, so I painted her instead. The process for this painting wasn’t long. I just sketch it out and then I started to paint but when the paint was dried, I traced the whole thing with a black sharpie to close everything together. I also didn’t have much trouble with this, the only I problem I had was creating the skin tone color for her. I mixed colors and nothing was coming together so with tons of mixing I came to this brownish-grayish and I used it but overall I don’t think I would change anything about this painting. 

Tykeiah Martin's Final Human Anatomy BenchMark

Posted by Tykeiah Martin in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on

Tykeiah Martin

Ms. Aziz

Human Anatomy

May 23, 2018


My topic, food safety covers a common sickness called “ foodborne illness”. The symptoms caused by this sickness as well as where it may come from. Foodborne illness is found inside of the food. Whereas through the food can be contaminated with bacteria or parasites. From poor sanitation through the process of the food or the workplace. I contributed to the project of course because I did it on my own, so I played every role to my potential. I think I edited the video well, something I would do differently is try to work with others, for help on things like the recording. I believe the most meaningful part, was informing my peers on what they may be eating, and always stay cautious. So I enjoy being a help to others.


Diamond's Q4 Benchmark

Posted by Diamond Hannah in Art 1 · Hertz · d1 on
For this benchmark, I focused on an artist who I honestly believe could have been the complete opposite of me, besides us both being Libras, but, he stood out to me. Mark Rothko, an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. I believe the thing about him that caught my attention was that he was very conservative and he didn’t say much about his inspiration, influences, or how his art connected to him so, his art was open for any type of interpretation. Rothko also never identified himself as any specific type of artist, he was very flexible with his expression through art and his pieces that I looked at seemed very interesting. For my Rothko inspired piece, I decided to a spin off one of simple, yet open for interpretation creations. This piece was left unnamed but, on most of the sources that I saw the piece on, it was referred to as Black on Grey. After doing some research on the piece, I was able to discover exactly how Rothko made his original piece. Supposedly, he used acrylic paint on a canvas. So, I took the same steps to try and recreate the original piece. When I first saw the painting, I saw it from the perspective as someone standing on the moon so, I added my own spin to it by adding stars to the black portion to make it look like a sky. I’m proud of the work that I have produced because I feel that I have been able to show that art can be interpreted in many different ways. 

In the past, I usually made all of my art relate to some type of scenery usually revolved around nature. This is close but, is in a sense different. With this being the last art project of my high school career, I will remember this as a milestone. I admit, when I chose this art piece to reinterpret, I chose it because it was simple but, I was able to get my creative juices flowing and I proved to myself that I can think outside of the box. I hope for others to look at my work and find it interesting and inspiring. I learned some new things such as how to create my own canvas, and I learned more about what you can do what acrylic paint and how to alter original colors. If I were able to do this all over again, maybe I would decide to be more detailed or be more creative meaning, I could add in spaceships, or aliens to express my creativity and art style. I took a simple acrylic painting and turned it into a story and I want this to be evident when people view my work.

Q4 Benchmark Submission

Posted by Saraa Fadl in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
​ For this project, we decided to talk about nutrition in aspects of infant health, how much sugar is really in our foods and how dieting can affect our bodies. We chose this because we felt like America struggles with realising the true facts of fatty foods and how they are made. The most meaningful part of the PSA was having to talk to someone who works on nutrition, specifically infant health. She was able to talk about her knowledge of nutrition in pregnant women and infants. My job was to complete an interview with someone and we wanted to be different and use the information that we got from our interviewee and pick important information related to our video. If we were to do this differently I think we should've started out with an outline of what the final submission should look like instead of jumping into many things. 

    Q4 Benchmark final submission

    Posted by Michael Tran in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
    ​Reflection
    I made a PSA about obesity with my friends Saraa and Shirin. We all helped each other do every part of the project from research to writing the script to editing. Overall, I chose to do a PSA about obesity because it is a public health issue. I think that my group and I did the entire project well. However, if I could redo, I would work on the project earlier. The most meaningful part of working on a PSA was working on it with other people.

    The unit of this project is public health. Public health is about preventing diseases rather than treating them. There are a lot of factors that go into public health like economy, society, and politics. Society makes the issue known to the government and then, the government and society work together using politics to get people with the right resources and mindset to make real change. These people then have to use the economy correctly to solves the issues of society. Public health is something that affects everybody and lack of care to it can damage the process of research.

    Obesity: Human Anatomy Benchmark

    Posted by Shirin Akhter in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
    ​For our last project, my group and I decided to work on obesity. Obesity is a well-known issue in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of adult Americans are overweight or obese. Despite all the attention to prevent overweight and obesity, The prevalence of obesity in the US has more than doubled over the past four decades. 
    I contributed to this project by doing my research and making sure I was adding enough facts for the people to understand. I  looked into many organizations/rehab that help obese people. Lastly, I made sure to do my recording for the PSA audio. It was meaningful to come together and add all our information together.

    Sanitation Public Health BenchMark

    Posted by Aaliyah Ellerbee in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58fUrdro7fA&app=desktop
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58fUrdro7fA&app=desktop
    Public health is everyone's concern. Why not make those uneducated about the topic more knowledgeable and help save our own lives. Our video is essentially about the importance of clean water and decent bathroom facilities. How lucky we are to live in an area with bearable sanitation. I was able to contribute to the group by helping with the information, the script finding sources and creating the video. I feel like we could have used our time way better. I would have called more nonprofit organizations to get more input about the "sanitation crisis." The most meaningful part was learning about the epidemic and able to bring awareness.

    Reproductive Healthcare

    Posted by Santana Outlaw in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
    Our video was based on the topic of reproductive healthcare, which involves things such as abortion, trans-rights, and more. I feel as though this is an important topic because we often see in the news that the government makes constant efforts to defund Planned Parenthood or regulate human bodies more than guns (shade). It's important to spread awareness about this topic to put an end to ridiculous laws. For this project, I interviewed Ms. Williams along with Adam. As a group, we interviewed a couple peers for the PSA as well. For this project, I wish we were able to schedule an interview with organizations such as Galaei, the Mazzoni Center, or the Attic Youth Center. These places often serve as safe spaces for queer citizens and free (or reduced) testing centers. It would've been great to have their input! The most important part about this is that it's a topic that's commonly avoided because of the intensity (it's not even that intense). People don't always know how to approach certain questions about reproductive health due to lack of exposure, so it's good to break it down in a simple-enough fashion. 
    In the interview, Ms. Williams made a good point about how low-income areas in cities typically have the highest pregnancy or STD rates because of the lack of access of education or health resources. Since these areas are (as I said) low-income, it's not easy to get an abortion or medical treatment to cure any infections or diseases. Lack of education in these areas also leads to people not understanding what to do in certain situations or know who to go to. Our PSA was created to emphasize these issues and assure that our viewers become aware of them.

    Human Anatomy: Q4 Benchmark- PSA Sanitation Public Heath Issue

    Posted by Sakura Seals on
    For my Q4 benchmark, I had to create a PSA about public health issues we believed was a big problem. I and my group members decided to focus on the public issue sanitation. Sanitation is the actions related to keeping clean drinking water and disposal of human sewage (waste). Public health is known as ‘’ the health of the population as a whole, especially as monitored, regulated, and promoted by the state.’’ Unfortunately, some countries in the world have poor public health that has to do with sanitation problems. Each member of the group has specific roles and jobs to fulfill in order to make this project successful. I was in charge of research and script making for the project. The project was successful in a way because of the information we had out in the video.

    The most meaningful part of creating the PSA was that I was able to spread awareness on a serious issue people have to go through in the world. Not everyone in the world has access to clean drinking water and proper toilets. This has an impact on society because of the public health concern that comes from sanitation problems. Not having proper restrooms and soap can lead to the spread of bacteria, viruses, and parasites found in human excreta which can contaminate the soil, food, and water. Human has basic rights to clean drinking water and sanitation.


    Motor Vehicle Injuries/ Accidents

    Posted by Amani Sheard in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on

    Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in the first three decades of Americans’ lives. The number of motor vehicle deaths have skyrocketed in 2015, resulting in over 35,000 deaths that year alone. More than 85% of motor vehicle crashes happen because of the decision of the driver. These issues could range from drinking in driving, texting while driving, or falling asleep behind the wheel.  In attempts to stop the issue of motor vehicle accidents, organizations such as CDC have turned to science in hopes of a solution. Thanks to scientific research, we found that distractions to the brain are what commonly cause such accidents. Doing simple things like, not texting while driving, driving sober, and wearing a seat belt can reduce the number of motor vehicle accidents.
    I helped my group by researching current events relation to motor vehicle accidents, as well as researching scientific articles which tell us why this topic is such a problem. Lastly connecting it to pubic health safety.
    We all did a good job at creating an informative PSA. One that was filled with facts, yet easy to understand and interesting to watch. The most meaningful part was being able to not only find the science behind such a big topic, but being able to find ways to prevent it.

    Reproductive Healthcare

    Posted by Adam Bennett in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
    The main focus in our video is to spread awareness about reproductive health and giving a definition of what it is. In the video, we interviewed Ms. Williams to ask her about her role in public health care and what she thinks should be the next steps in educating students on reproductive healthcare. The role I played was interviewing Ms. Williams discussing with her the reproductive health care and providing audio clips for the script. I think what I did well was be there for my group in any way they needed me and playing my role well in the project. I guess one thing I would do differently is probably interview more professionals on the topic from both sides of reproductive health. The most meaningful part I would say was the interview because it helps having that professional to student dialogue. 

    Alcohol Related Injury

    Posted by Eoin Kelly in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on
    ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUAxUQTcnwg&feature=youtu.be

    Doing this project taught me not only about the affects alcohol has on the human body, but also what you can do to help someone struggling with alcohol abuse. This is important because it’s such a great issue in our country today, and spreading awareness is the least you can do to help.