Here is a worksheet on the Latin word roots lun and luni. They mean, you will probably not be surprised to hear, moon. These show up quite a bit in English (lunar, lunatic, interlunar, etc.).
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Health teachers, here is a reading on obesity along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Do I need to belabor the importance of this material in a nation as fat as the United States?
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Working in New York City, I often use this reading on Bellevue Hospital and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet as make-up work for students who had fallen behind due to extended absences. To some, it was high-interest material, particularly those whose health needs had occasioned visit to that venerable institution.
Did you know it was the first hospital in the United States to offer ambulance services? I always tried to ask students a couple of Socratic questions that would lead them to an understanding of the intransitive verb ambulate (i.e. “to move from place to place; WALK”), so that they understood that a person in need of an ambulance could not ove under their own power–hence the need for an ambulance.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Moving right along on this chilly afternoon, here is a worksheet on the Greek root gastr/o. It means, as you probably already inferred, stomach. It’s a very productive root in the English language, particularly for people entering the health sciences and culinary arts professions.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Here, on a snowy Tuesday morning, is a lesson plan on personality disorders. The work for this lesson consists of this short reading along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
And here are slightly longer versions of these documents if you want them.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
OK, wrapping up on a Wednesday afternoon, here is a lesson plan on obsessive-compulsive disorder. You’ll need this short reading and this vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet to teach this material. If you want slightly longer versions of the reading and worksheet, they’re under that hyperlink.
Nota bene that this has tended to be high-interest material among the students I’ve taught over the years, which is why I tagged it as such.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Were you aware that Charles R. Drew, a black man, discovered that blood plasma could last over time if it were kept cool? I wasn’t until I began using this Everyday Edit worksheet on him about ten years ago. If you’d like more of these, you can find them at Education World, where you can actually take for free a whole year’s supply of them.
If you find typos in this document, fix them, for heaven’s sake! It’s an Everyday Edit worksheet….
OK, health care professions students, here is a worksheet on the Greek root endo-, which means, simply, inside. That’s why endocrinologists deal with those glands buried deep inside your body. This is, of course, another of those roots that produces a lot of words related to health care, so if you have students looking at careers in that profession, here’s another Greek root they should probably know.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots gam/o, gamet/o, and -gamy. This is a complicated but nonetheless productive set of roots that mean marriage, sexual union, gamete, and united. Science teachers, I would guess that some of these words turn up in your classroom.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Here’s a lesson plan on fitness along with its short reading and accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. If you want slightly longer versions of these documents, they’re under that hyperlink.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
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