Unit 1.1 Beginning with Bones: Patient rehabilitation context, regional/directional terms, body cavities/planes, tissue structure.
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 — you open it through Schoology.
Week overview - Beginning with Bones: regional terms, body planes, cavities, and tissues
Use regional and directional terms, body planes, and cavities to map a patient's anatomy, and connect tissue types to how the body is organized.
- 1Sketch a body outline and draw the sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes, labeling each one.
- 2Mark the major body cavities on your sketch and note one organ found in each.
- 3Add at least four regional terms to your sketch and write what part of the body each one names.
- 4Make a quick four-box chart for tissue types and write one job of epithelial, connective, and the role of cartilage.
- 5Read the short patient rehabilitation scenario and circle every directional or regional term you find.
- 6Write two sentences locating the patient's injury using a plane, a cavity, and a directional term.
- • You will be able to name and draw the sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes.
- • You will be able to identify major body cavities and a structure inside each.
- • You will be able to describe a patient's injury location using regional and directional terms.
Daily lessons this week
Open any day for its full lesson, the work due that day, and guided notes.
One-paragraph CER on whether patient imaging data should be shared for teaching without renewed consent.
Labeled body-planes and body-cavities diagram with at least one organ placed in each major cavity.
Model card or poster showing five levels of structural organization, four tissue types, and one example location per tissue type.
Annotated patient anatomy map with plane, cavity, and tissue type marked, plus a one-paragraph rationale justifying each selection.
Complete evidence packet: planes-and-cavities diagram, tissue organization model photo, patient anatomy map with rationale, and two-sentence reflection.
Quick intro to the week
- Hook: a physical therapist cannot help a patient until they can describe exactly where the problem is.
- Today's goal: turn planes, cavities, and tissue types into a clear map of a real patient.
- Monday bioethics tie-in: how much patient information should a rehab team share to plan care, and where is the line on privacy?
- Reminder: your graded patient anatomy map is submitted in the PLTW course shell.
Your PLTW coursework this week
Do this: Advance the PLTW HBS online benchmark through Unit 1.1 Beginning with Bones.
- • Body planes divide the body into sagittal, frontal, and transverse views.
- • Tissues are groups of similar cells, including epithelial, connective, and cartilage.
- • Locate a structure using regional and directional terms.
- • Match a tissue type to a basic body function.
📋 PLTW evidence due this week: your completed patient anatomy map labeling planes, cavities, and tissues.
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, Aug 31 | Bioethics: imaging and privacy | One-paragraph CER on whether patient imaging data should be shared for teaching without renewed consent. |
| Tuesday | Tue, Sep 1 | Body planes and cavities | Labeled body-planes and body-cavities diagram with at least one organ placed in each major cavity. |
| Wednesday | Wed, Sep 2 | Tissue types and body-organization model | Model card or poster showing five levels of structural organization, four tissue types, and one example location per tissue type. |
| Thursday | Thu, Sep 3 | Patient anatomy map | Annotated patient anatomy map with plane, cavity, and tissue type marked, plus a one-paragraph rationale justifying each selection. |
| Friday | Fri, Sep 4 | Submit organization evidence | Complete evidence packet: planes-and-cavities diagram, tissue organization model photo, patient anatomy map with rationale, and two-sentence reflection. |
- M: Philosophy for Kids / John Carroll bioethical debate
- T: teacher background notes + PLTW launch task
- W: lab / data or model work
- Th: analysis / CER or design revision
- F: submit tracker + weekly evidence
Due by week's end: Patient anatomy map.
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 Schoology (CMSD) and keep goingHow to get there: open the CMSD website, click Clever, sign in with your Microsoft (district) account, then open Schoology from Clever.
You can't do those from home — do this instead: Teacher-posted data/model packet, same objective. Supplemental: Khan: body structure and homeostasis.
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:
Khan Academy: Health and MedicineVocabulary
Virtual resources
Standards this week
WebXam practice
Drop your Week 2 here. Use a clear file name (your initials + project). Routine work still goes to Schoology (via the CMSD portal).
Upload a project