Eye Opener: Online Learning Activities

Defining Medical Terms: Jeff
Pre-op: occurring before a surgical operation

Post-op: relating to, occurring in, or being the period following a surgical operation

Out-patient: a patient who is not hospitalized overnight but who visits a hospital, clinic, or associated facility for diagnosis or treatment

In-patient: a hospital patient who receives lodging and food as well as treatment

Receptionist: a person employed to greet telephone callers, visitors, patients, or clients

Doctor: a person skilled or specializing in healing arts; especially : one (as a physician, dentist, or veterinarian) who holds an advanced degree and is licensed to practice

Nurse: a person who cares for the sick or infirm; specifically : a licensed health-care professional who practices independently or is supervised by a physician, surgeon, or dentist and who is skilled in promoting and maintaining health

Pharmacist: a person licensed to engage in pharmacy, the art, practice, or profession of preparing, preserving, compounding, and dispensing medical drugs

Anesthesiologist: a physician specializing in anesthesiology, which involves the study of the loss of sensation and usually of consciousness without loss of vital functions artificially produced by the administration of one or more agents that block the passage of pain impulses along nerve pathways to the brain

Radiology: a branch of medicine concerned with the use of radiant energy (as X-rays or ultrasound) in the diagnosis and treatment of disease

I Don’t Want to Clean My Room: Jessica
The most interesting fact that I learned from this activity was that vacuum lint can also be composted along with old food! Good to know!

Test Your WaterSense: Erika
According to my final score of 495 and answering 6 out of 12 questions correctly, I am a “WaterSense Expert.” This means that there is still room to increase my knowledge about water wasting!

Barriers to Bicycling: Hannah
When I was in high school, one of my friends hit a bicyclist while driving to school. My friend was driving to volleyball practice at 6am, so the sun was not up yet. She didn’t even see the man cross the street on his bicycle. After he was hit, he immediately fell to the ground and suffered a few broken bones. The reason my friend never saw the bicyclist was because he was wearing dark clothing with no reflectors before dawn. If the man would have been wearing the proper clothing, this accident may have been avoided altogether! Just one more aspect of safety that bicyclers should take into consideration!

Share & Voice: Ingrid and Lauren's Glass Tree

Since most of you probably couldn't see the pictures of the items Ingrid and I "repurposed" for Tuesday, I decided to upload them into a "Share & Voice!" We went to several second-hand stores to purchase some of the items below. The stand is an old plant pot holder and was only $6! We decided that each glass could hold candles, flowers, fish, sand, candy, poporri, rocks, beads, or buttons. Behold, "The Glass Tree:"

Advocacy Project: The Salmon Challenge

Title
The Salmon Challenge

Purpose
Salmon Challenge is a game to help you see how your decisions help or harm our environment and our salmon. The environmental lessons learned from this game can also be applied to other wildlife and humans that use estuaries, rivers, lakes, and ponds for a variety of purposes.

Background/Reasoning/Evidence
Polluted runoff that enters rivers, lakes, and estuaries has a major impact on the environment and endangers the health of wildlife and humans. Polluted runoff comes from a variety of sources that are hard to regulate. However, there are several things you can do around your home to improve the water quality of rivers, lakes, and estuaries.

Instructions
1. You will be given ten questions, just choose the best answer by clicking on it with your mouse. Good choices will help your salmon grow big and strong and migrate to Puget Sound, bad choices will harm or kill your salmon.
2. You may get a Water Quality Alert with no good solution.
3. Click on CHECKUP to see your salmon's current size, health and location.
4. Click on TRY to give your salmon a jumpstart if you discover it is sick.
5. Clicking on the arrow will take you to the next question
6. When you are finished with the game, post a comment about what you learned from it!
*NOTE: Salmon Challenge requires Shockwave Player plug-in (external link) to view the animations.

CLICK on the Salmon below to play!