Deborah Reed, Pamela Kidd
University of Kentucky
Hearing Loss - Supplemental Activity 5: Cost Tool - Student's Worksheet
Materials
Needed:
"Sound Advice Throughout the Years" problem booklet
and answer sheets
Time
Frame:
15 minutes for written completion
15 minutes for discussion
Use the narrative simulation entitled "Sound Advice Throughout the Years" to encourage the students to engage in learning about the dangers of exposure to high frequency noises. This simulation will allow students to develop an understanding of how exposure to noise over time impacts their health throughout their lifetime. After all students have completed the activity encourage the students to interact with one another through group discussion.
Sample questions to use with the "Sound Advice Throughout the Years" narrative:
- How
does peer pressure influence the use of hearing protection
among adolescents?
- Peer pressure is strong during adolescence. Use this fact
to have the students encourage their friends to wear hearing
protection. Encourage them to find ways to make wearing the
protection as being "cool" instead of "nerdy".
- Whom
does hearing loss affect?
- Not only is the person who has suffered hearing loss affected,
but also those around them, especially their family members.
By not being able to hear well, they may put others at risk
in dangerous situations.
- How
could the people in the simulation protect their hearing?
- The people in the story could have worn hearing protection.
Encourage the students to also consider options of removing
themselves from the noise producing activity and decreasing
the time exposed to the noise.
Problem Booklet
Flesch-Kincaide Grade Level 4.7
Flesch Reading Ease 80.1
Answer
Key
Flesch-Kincaide Grade Level 6.8
Flesch Reading Ease 69.6
Answer
Sheet, Questionnaire/Eval.
Flesch-Kincaide Grade Level 5.9
Flesch Reading Ease 73.3
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