Guest Speakers and Teamwork Aid in Learning
This month in Exploring Health Occupations we have been busy. We had a guest speaker, Mrs. Beckie Frieders, from Valley West Community Hospital. She spoke to us about nutrition and about the requirements and education needed for her career. She also left us all insulated glasses to drink all our healthy water from! . . . read more
Students Watch Bypass Surgery
Wow! What an amazing experience our Exploring Health Occupations class just got to be a part of. After studying the heart, diseases of the heart and health careers related to the heart, we were able to watch a quadruple . . . read more
Exploring Health Occupations: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
You might not know what the word esphagogastroduodenoscopy means, but our Exploring Health Occupations students could tell you! We have been diving deep into the wonderful language of medical terminology. A crazy and confusing language . . . read more
Wide Array of Activities on Exploring Health Occupations
During our second half of the year at IVVC, we took a couple of field trips. We visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago with the Sports Medicine class, and saw the Body Works exhibit. The way they showed the bodies and organs . . . read more
Students Participate in Health/Career Fair
With all health careers, education is a key component. Recently in Exploring Health Occupations we were asked to take part in a health/career fair at Plano Middle School. This was an exciting way to help educate ourselves, and then in turn . . . read more
Learning about Skeletons, CPR and Careers
This semester in Exploring Health Occupations we have studied the skeleton, learned CPR, and took trips to Valley West Community Hospital. When we studied the skeletal body, we all worked in groups to create our own version of the . . . read more
Students Learn Many Life Lessons
In Exploring Health Occupations, we have practiced things such as taking blood pressures, to learning how to defend ourselves. We have also learned a variety of medical terminology, as well as different cultures and their viewpoint of the . . . read more
Many Topics Studied in Health Occupations
We all chose Exploring Health Occupations for a specific reason; most of us want to go into the medical field. For a project, we researched medical careers and presented them to the class. Some medical careers that were chosen were . . . read more
