Cultural and Community Health
This Indigenous framework teaches balance between mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
What is the Medicine Wheel?
This organ protects your body, regulates temperature, and prevents dehydration.
What is the skin?
This system moves blood throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
When testing how exercise affects heart rate, the heart rate is the ______.
What is the dependent variable?
These two systems work together to help you move your arm.
What are the muscular and skeletal systems?
Name one lifestyle choice that helps maintain a healthy body.
What is daily physical activity / proper nutrition / adequate sleep / hygiene / medical checkups?
These body fluids help kill germs before they enter your body.
What are tears and saliva?
This organ pumps blood.
What is the heart?
Name one tool you could use to measure breathing rate.
What is a stopwatch?
These three systems work together to move oxygen through your body.
What are the respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems?
This Canadian guide helps people compare their diet to healthy eating recommendations.
What is Health Canada’s Canada's Food Guide?
These blood cells help fight infections.
What are white blood cells?
Asthma affects this body system.
What is the respiratory system?
Turning “Why does heart rate increase?” into a testable question might sound like this:
How does 5 minutes of jumping jacks affect heart rate?
Why do we need a diaphragm to breathe?
It helps the lungs expand and contract.
Mosquitoes spreading disease like this virus are an example of a natural environmental health factor.
What is West Nile Virus?
This stomach substance destroys many harmful bacteria.
What are stomach acids (gastric juices)?
This system allows you to react to stimuli like touching something hot.
What is the nervous system?
This is when scientists keep one factor the same to make an investigation fair.
What is controlling variables?
During exercise, which systems are working harder? (Name at least two.)
Circulatory, respiratory, muscular.
Name one community organization or professional that supports personal or community health.
What is a public health nurse / doctor / dietitian / water treatment plant / hospital?
If the skin is badly damaged (like in a severe burn), predict two ways health would be affected.
Loss of protection from infection, difficulty regulating temperature, dehydration, etc.
If your kidneys failed, which body system would be most directly affected?
What is the excretory system?
Name one way to display investigation data clearly.
What is a table / bar graph / frequency tally?
Explain how the digestive and excretory systems work together to maintain health.
Digestive system breaks down food and absorbs nutrients; excretory system removes waste the body does not need.