1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
What I plan to do for my Independent Component 2 is do an additional 30 hours of where I do my mentorship. I will be doing the same thing I do as what I do when I volunteer, which is; shadowing my mentor, recording patient's vitals, and helping the medical assistants with whatever they need my help for which is usually filling out their lots.
2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
My evidence of showing my 30 hours of work for Independent Component 2 will be the same as to what I did for my Independent Component 1. I will be shadowing my mentor, Dr. Chen, and I will be asking her questions by the end of the day that I shadowed her. When I'm done with my 30 hours I will type up all the questions and answers I have collected and turn them in to my house teacher.
3. Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.This component will help me explore my topic more in depth because I will be shadowing my mentor and by shadowing her (going into the rooms with her and her patients) I will be learning new things about a pediatrician. It will also help me with my essential question because of the questions and answers I will be collecting from what my mentor tells me.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Blog 14: Independent Component 1
I, Leslie Luna, affirm that I completed my Independent
Component 1 which represents 34 hours of work.
The book that helped me a lot with my Independent Component 1 would be Your Child's Health by Barton D. Schmitt. Every time I shadowed with my mentor, Dr. Chen, I noticed she would recommend this book to every patient’s parent. This book talks about any type of disease or illness a baby could get. It also talks about the treatments or what to do for the baby when put in the situation. This book helped me think of a lot of questions that I needed my mentor, Dr. Chen, to answer. It’s a great book and will answer every question you have about your child’s health.
The book that helped me a lot with my Independent Component 1 would be Your Child's Health by Barton D. Schmitt. Every time I shadowed with my mentor, Dr. Chen, I noticed she would recommend this book to every patient’s parent. This book talks about any type of disease or illness a baby could get. It also talks about the treatments or what to do for the baby when put in the situation. This book helped me think of a lot of questions that I needed my mentor, Dr. Chen, to answer. It’s a great book and will answer every question you have about your child’s health.
Schmitt, Barton D. Your Child's Health. Toronto: Bantam,
1987. Print.
My Independent Component 1 hour are updated and labeled on this right side of my blog under the link as Senior Project Hours.
My Independent Component 1 hour are updated and labeled on this right side of my blog under the link as Senior Project Hours.
What I completed during my Independent Component 1 was just complete extra 30
hours of volunteer work. What I did was help the medical assistants with their
lots, I took vitals of patients, I assisted them to their rooms and I also
shadowed my mentor, Dr. Chen. While I shadowed my mentor I collected questions
I had for her that she would answer by the end of the day. I will be turning in
the question and answer sheets that I’ve typed out to my house teacher.
This component helped me understand the foundation of my topic better because it was an extra 30 hours of where I do my mentorship. Volunteering there helps me with my topic and my essential question because I am always surrounded by kids who have autism. I learn how to be around them and notice the way their brain works. Completing extra hours at my mentorship helps me answer my essential question.
This component helped me understand the foundation of my topic better because it was an extra 30 hours of where I do my mentorship. Volunteering there helps me with my topic and my essential question because I am always surrounded by kids who have autism. I learn how to be around them and notice the way their brain works. Completing extra hours at my mentorship helps me answer my essential question.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Sweden Brothers
This week's research check I found a great and useful article. The article talks about a link that could be a reason of what causes autism. It talks about genetic background from these two brothers who have autism and a mice who had autism and also the gene NLGN3. The two brothers also had the gene NLGN3 and that's why they believe that the brothers received autism because the mice was the first mice to be experimented with autism. I talked about this research on my lesson plan and I'm also writing about it on my additional blog because it's so interesting and something new that could or could not be the cause of autism. Below I will share the link of the article.
http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2014/genetic-background-may-alter-behavior-of-autism-mice
http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2014/genetic-background-may-alter-behavior-of-autism-mice
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection
1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I'm most proud of my hook activity in me Lesson 2 Presentation because I feel like it caught the attention of my audience. It got them hooked on to my topic wanting to know more about autism. I also showed a 2 min video that explained more about my hook activity.
2. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?
I believe that I deserve a P on my Lesson 2 Presentation because I met all of the requirements for under a P consideration. My powerpoint was a lot about my research. I knew everything I had to talk about and referenced a lot of my research. I also had an activity that went well with my topic. For these many reasons I honestly think I deserve a P.
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
What worked for me in my lesson was that I had a lot of research to base my essential question and my answer on. Autism is a really huge thing and a disorder that's really common so researching was not so hard to do. I think that's what helped me reference a lot of my research.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
I think what didn't work for my lesson plan was the time I had to speak because autism is really long to explain and so much to discuss about, I think if I had more time then my presentation would run smoother. I guess the thing I could do to improve this is to cut some parts off on my topic.
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
I think my answer will be about the link of vaccines causing autism, but that's obviously not true so I don't know if i'm going to have it as an answer then explain why it isn't true or just not have that as an answer.
I'm most proud of my hook activity in me Lesson 2 Presentation because I feel like it caught the attention of my audience. It got them hooked on to my topic wanting to know more about autism. I also showed a 2 min video that explained more about my hook activity.
2. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?
I believe that I deserve a P on my Lesson 2 Presentation because I met all of the requirements for under a P consideration. My powerpoint was a lot about my research. I knew everything I had to talk about and referenced a lot of my research. I also had an activity that went well with my topic. For these many reasons I honestly think I deserve a P.
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
What worked for me in my lesson was that I had a lot of research to base my essential question and my answer on. Autism is a really huge thing and a disorder that's really common so researching was not so hard to do. I think that's what helped me reference a lot of my research.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
I think what didn't work for my lesson plan was the time I had to speak because autism is really long to explain and so much to discuss about, I think if I had more time then my presentation would run smoother. I guess the thing I could do to improve this is to cut some parts off on my topic.
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
I think my answer will be about the link of vaccines causing autism, but that's obviously not true so I don't know if i'm going to have it as an answer then explain why it isn't true or just not have that as an answer.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Blog 12: Mentorship 10 Hours Check
1. Where are you doing your mentorship?
I'm doing my mentorship at a Pediatric Clinic in Pomona.
2. Who is your contact?
My mentor is Dr. Chen. She's a pediatrician at the clinic I do my mentorship at.
3. How many total hours have you done?
The total number of hours that I have is 92 hours.
4. Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.
The 10 hours of service that I did at my mentorship was a lot of things. On somedays I shadowed my mentor Dr. Chen. I went inside with her into every one of the rooms so she could see her patients. I took notes and wrote down questions that she could answer for me. By the end of the day I sat down with her so that she could answer every one of them. On some of the other days I helped some of the medical assistants with their LOTS. The part I enjoy most doing at my mentorship is having to take down the vitals of the patients. After I take down their vitals I then put the patients medical information into the computer.
I'm doing my mentorship at a Pediatric Clinic in Pomona.
2. Who is your contact?
My mentor is Dr. Chen. She's a pediatrician at the clinic I do my mentorship at.
3. How many total hours have you done?
The total number of hours that I have is 92 hours.
4. Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.
The 10 hours of service that I did at my mentorship was a lot of things. On somedays I shadowed my mentor Dr. Chen. I went inside with her into every one of the rooms so she could see her patients. I took notes and wrote down questions that she could answer for me. By the end of the day I sat down with her so that she could answer every one of them. On some of the other days I helped some of the medical assistants with their LOTS. The part I enjoy most doing at my mentorship is having to take down the vitals of the patients. After I take down their vitals I then put the patients medical information into the computer.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Blog 11: Holiday Project Update
1. What did you do over the break with your senior project?
Over my winter break I did a lot of research for my senior project. While researching about my topic and my EQ I found a video about Dr. Andrew Wakefield. I decided to post that as my additional blog because I found it so interesting how he believes that there is a link between autism and vaccines. Nothing or no one could tell him otherwise. I also volunteered at my pediatric clinic during my winter break. I talked with my mentor about some of the questions that I had about and I also showed her my mentorship log and explained it to her. She told me it was neat seeing that my school would assign us something like that.
2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why? What was the source of what you learned?
The most important thing I learned from what I did over my winter break was the video that I saw on Dr. Andrew Wakefield. It was so interesting watching this doctor talk to the public on how autism is caused because of vaccines. Dr. Wakefield was so sure about what he was saying that no one was able to put some common sense into him. Scientists and researchers have so much data discussing about how there is absolutely no link and Dr. Wakefield still says he believes that there is.
3. If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?
I talked with my mentor about this question and I asked her who would she recommend and she recommended me another doctor that works at the same clinic just on different days. His name is Dr. Hung. He goes in on Wednesdays and Thursday. I would like to talk to interview him because my mentor recommended him and also because he's a doctor at the same place I volunteer at so he's known me for a while and have seen what I do as a volunteer there.
Over my winter break I did a lot of research for my senior project. While researching about my topic and my EQ I found a video about Dr. Andrew Wakefield. I decided to post that as my additional blog because I found it so interesting how he believes that there is a link between autism and vaccines. Nothing or no one could tell him otherwise. I also volunteered at my pediatric clinic during my winter break. I talked with my mentor about some of the questions that I had about and I also showed her my mentorship log and explained it to her. She told me it was neat seeing that my school would assign us something like that.
2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why? What was the source of what you learned?
The most important thing I learned from what I did over my winter break was the video that I saw on Dr. Andrew Wakefield. It was so interesting watching this doctor talk to the public on how autism is caused because of vaccines. Dr. Wakefield was so sure about what he was saying that no one was able to put some common sense into him. Scientists and researchers have so much data discussing about how there is absolutely no link and Dr. Wakefield still says he believes that there is.
3. If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?
I talked with my mentor about this question and I asked her who would she recommend and she recommended me another doctor that works at the same clinic just on different days. His name is Dr. Hung. He goes in on Wednesdays and Thursday. I would like to talk to interview him because my mentor recommended him and also because he's a doctor at the same place I volunteer at so he's known me for a while and have seen what I do as a volunteer there.
Monday, December 29, 2014
Dr. Andrew Wakefield
I found this video while researching about my topic. In this video, Dr. Andrew Wakefield is a gastrointestinal surgeon. He also likes to study about vaccines in general. He discovered that autism was linked with the three combination vaccine; which includes, measles, mumps and rubella. They call it the MMR vaccine. Dr. Andrew Wakefield lost his career and name for "following the truth his research led him to." There is absolutely no link between any type of vaccine and autism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4PeLtH6RWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4PeLtH6RWY
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