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Current Events - Student Pages Due Fridays - June 25th and July 2nd

You will present 2-5 minutes on a current event in Health. You may create a presentation to share or just speak to the class.

We will be using Google Reader to collect potential resources for your current events. Watch this to learn more about Google Reader. media type="custom" key="6383255" Google Reader

Center for Disease Control - http://www.cdc.gov/ Injury Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/injury/index.html National Institutes of Health - http://www.nih.gov/ CNN Health - http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/ NYTimes - http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/?scp=1-spot&sq=health&st=cse NPR - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1128 WebMD - http://www.webmd.com/news/default.htm Health Magazine - http://www.health.com/health/ MSNBC - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032076/ Fox News - http://www.foxnews.com/health/ Medline Plus - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/newsbydate.html

If you find another resource you would like me to consider please submit it to the Discussion Tab on this page.

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Rubric include link to article(s) that relate to your current event (3) - one paragraph on why this is a health problem (5) - one paragraph summary about the article (5) - one paragraph prediction of what you think will happen next (5)
 * extra credit* include some multimedia aspect of your current event and earn up to 5 pts bonus.