Auditory anatomy, audiograms, cochlear implants, immune response, vaccine design, herd immunity.
Your PLTW coursework: Medical Interventions ▸ Unit 1: How to Fight Infection ▸ Lesson 1.3 The Aftermath: Hearing Loss / Lesson 1.4 Vaccination ▸ "Activity 1.3.3 Cochlear Implants"
What to do if absent- CER:
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: make a claim, back it with evidence, explain your reasoning.
- SOP:
- Standard Operating Procedure, the exact steps to follow (especially in a lab).
- Tracker:
- Your PLTW progress log where you record completed evidence.
- myPLTW:
- The PLTW course site where you do the online activities. Find it in Clever with your Microsoft sign-in, right next to Schoology.
Week overview - Sound and shields: audiograms, the immune response, and vaccines
Read an and connect to design and to complete Unit 1 evidence.
- 1Label a diagram of the ear, marking the and hair cells.
- 2Read a sample and identify the frequencies where hearing loss appears.
- 3Diagram a basic , labeling .
- 4Explain in one sentence how a trains before real exposure.
- 5Use a model dataset to show how slows disease spread as coverage rises.
- 6Assemble your Unit 1 evidence so the tracker is ready for audit.
- • You will be able to read an for hearing loss.
- • You will be able to explain how a engages .
- • You will be able to describe how protects a population.
Daily lessons this week
Open any day for its full lesson, the work due that day, and guided notes.
One CER (claim, two evidences, reasoning) on cochlear implant ethics plus a three-sentence reflection.
Labeled with threshold plots, speech banana marked, and one-sentence severity classification.
diagram, two-scenario disease-model , and one comparison sentence.
Two threshold calculations with work shown, and one sentence explaining who herd immunity protects.
Unit 1 tracker audit (gap list) plus a short hearing-and- intervention recommendation for the case patient.
Quick intro to the week
- Hook: the same biology that lets you hear a whisper also decides whether a community resists an outbreak.
- Today's goal: read an and connect immunity to design while finishing your Unit 1 evidence.
- This week's Monday bioethics debate is cochlear implants, so weigh technology against identity and choice.
- Reminder: your Unit 1 tracker and all evidence are submitted on the class site for audit.
Your PLTW coursework this week
Do this: Complete the PLTW Unit 1 tracker in myPLTW with your hearing and vaccination evidence.
- • Hair cells in the convert sound into nerve signals.
- • Vaccines prime so the body responds faster to real infection.
- • Read an to locate hearing loss.
- • Explain how limits disease spread.
📋 PLTW tracker evidence due this week: completed Unit 1 tracker with analysis and and herd-immunity evidence ready for audit.
All PLTW activities are completed inside the PLTW course environment: this page only gives direction.
This week's PLTW tracker
Your week at a glance. Check off each deliverable as you finish it, then submit so Mr. Mendoza can see how the class is pacing.
Use the code Mr. Mendoza gave you, not your name. Saved on this device.
| Day | Date | Focus | Key deliverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | Mon, Oct 5 | Cochlear implant debate | One CER (claim, two evidences, reasoning) on cochlear implant ethics plus a three-sentence reflection. |
| Tuesday | Tue, Oct 6 | Audiogram interpretation | Labeled audiogram with threshold plots, speech banana marked, and one-sentence severity classification. |
| Wednesday | Wed, Oct 7 | Vaccine and disease-model lab | Adaptive immunity diagram, two-scenario disease-model data table, and one comparison sentence. |
| Thursday | Thu, Oct 8 | Herd immunity math | Two herd immunity threshold calculations with work shown, and one sentence explaining who herd immunity protects. |
| Friday | - | Unit 1 tracker check | Unit 1 tracker audit (gap list) plus a short hearing-and-vaccine intervention recommendation for the case patient. |
- M: cochlear implant debate
- T: audiogram interpretation
- W: vaccine model
- Th: herd immunity math
- F: Unit 1 tracker check
Due by week's end: Hearing / vaccine intervention case recommendation.
5 panels from the illustrated semester.
Fiction. There is no such student. The lessons, labs and dates are the real planned course; the student, the classmates and the conversations are invented.
Lab day: what to bring & watch
This explainer accompanies the PLTW lab protocol: watch it before lab.
What to do when absent
Most days, this class is your PLTW coursework: and PLTW is online and individual. So being out usually just means doing exactly what we did in class, from home.
Open Clever, then myPLTWHow to get there: open Clever and sign in with your Microsoft (district) account. Both myPLTW and Schoology are in Clever. Do the activity in myPLTW. Turn the work in on this site or hand it to Mr. Mendoza, because that is the step that counts as submitted. Schoology only shows your report-card grade later.
You can't do those from home: do this instead: Online case / data analysis.
Class still runs. A substitute will post today's plan: complete the online activity above; it's built to be self-guided. Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:
NIH MedlinePlusVocabulary
Teacher-posted resources
Classroom documents for this lesson are posted in Schoology. Open Clever, then Schoology, and find each one by the name shown on its card.
Use this with the vaccination lesson to connect development to a real example.
Placement rationale
Relocated to the vaccination lesson (Unit 1.4), where the COVID activity supports the day. Visibility: student-schoology.
Use this if you were absent, got stuck, or need another pass before you submit the lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Hearing loss, cochlear implants, vaccines by path:Medical-Interventions/Unit-1_How-to-Fight-Infection/1.3_Hearing-Loss; keywords:hearing, , cochlear. Score 142. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
Use this if you were absent, got stuck, or need another pass before you submit the lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Hearing loss, cochlear implants, vaccines by path:Medical-Interventions/Unit-1_How-to-Fight-Infection/1.4_Vaccination; keywords:, vaccination. Score 142. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
Open this when the class reaches this activity and use it to complete the required lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Hearing loss, cochlear implants, vaccines by path:Medical-Interventions/Unit-1_How-to-Fight-Infection/1.4_Vaccination; keywords:, vaccination. Score 142. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
How to get there: open Clever and sign in with your Microsoft (district) account. Both myPLTW and Schoology are in Clever. Do the activity in myPLTW. Turn the work in on this site or hand it to Mr. Mendoza, because that is the step that counts as submitted. Schoology only shows your report-card grade later.