Unit 2.1 Clinical Data: Routine bloodwork, chronic disease monitoring, telehealth, wearables, remote monitoring.
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 - Clinical Data: reading bloodwork and monitoring chronic disease
Interpret routine bloodwork against normal ranges, identify risk factors, and explain how telehealth and wearables support remote monitoring of chronic disease.
- 1Open the Unit 2.1 Clinical Data task in your PLTW shell to confirm the graded interpretation.
- 2Read a simulated blood panel and locate blood glucose and cholesterol values.
- 3Compare each result to its normal range and flag any value that is high or low.
- 4List the risk factors a flagged result suggests for a chronic condition.
- 5Describe how a wearable or telehealth visit would monitor that patient over time.
- 6Write a short monitoring plan that names what data to track and how often.
- • You can compare bloodwork values to their normal ranges.
- • You can identify risk factors from flagged lab results.
- • You can describe a remote monitoring plan using telehealth or wearables.
Daily lessons this week
Open any day for its full lesson, the work due that day, and guided notes.
Written CER (3-5 sentences) arguing whether continuous wearable monitoring helps or harms patients, with a reference to patient autonomy in the reasoning.
Exit ticket: list three blood panel markers, their normal ranges with units, and one clinical condition associated with an out-of-range value for each.
Simulated bloodwork data table (all time points for glucose and cholesterol) and a labeled time-series graph for one marker with the normal range band marked and at least one annotated out-of-range point.
CER arguing whether the simulated patient's chronic condition is improving or worsening, using the Wednesday time-series graph as evidence and explaining why the trend is more informative than a single reading.
Complete clinical-data packet: time-series graph with labeled axes, units, and normal range band; Thursday CER with cited data point and trend reasoning; variables/limitations documentation; and self-assessment form.
Quick intro to the week
- Numbers on a lab report only mean something when you compare them to a normal range, so today you practice reading bloodwork like a clinician.
- Today's goal: interpret a blood panel and build a realistic plan to monitor a chronic condition from a distance.
- Monday's bioethics debate connects: when a wearable streams health data nonstop, who owns that data and who gets to see it?
- Your graded bloodwork interpretation and chronic-care plan are submitted in the PLTW course shell.
Your PLTW coursework this week
Do this: Advance the PLTW PBS Unit 2.1 Clinical Data benchmark by interpreting bloodwork and planning remote monitoring in the online shell.
- • Lab values such as blood glucose and cholesterol are read against a normal range.
- • A risk factor raises the chance of developing a chronic disease.
- • Telehealth and wearables enable remote monitoring of patients over time.
- • Compare lab results to normal ranges and flag abnormal values.
- • Design a remote monitoring plan for a chronic condition.
📋 PLTW evidence due Friday: completed Unit 2.1 bloodwork interpretation and chronic-care monitoring plan.
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 | Tue, Oct 6 | Ethics of monitoring | Written CER (3-5 sentences) arguing whether continuous wearable monitoring helps or harms patients, with a reference to patient autonomy in the reasoning. |
| Tuesday | Wed, Oct 7 | Bloodwork and ranges | Exit ticket: list three blood panel markers, their normal ranges with units, and one clinical condition associated with an out-of-range value for each. |
| Wednesday | Thu, Oct 8 | Simulated bloodwork data | Simulated bloodwork data table (all time points for glucose and cholesterol) and a labeled time-series graph for one marker with the normal range band marked and at least one annotated out-of-range point. |
| Thursday | Mon, Oct 12 | Analyze chronic trends | CER arguing whether the simulated patient's chronic condition is improving or worsening, using the Wednesday time-series graph as evidence and explaining why the trend is more informative than a single reading. |
| Friday | Tue, Oct 13 | Submit clinical data | Complete clinical-data packet: time-series graph with labeled axes, units, and normal range band; Thursday CER with cited data point and trend reasoning; variables/limitations documentation; and self-assessment form. |
- 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: Bloodwork interpretation and chronic-care plan.
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 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: diabetes/blood glucose; CDC chronic disease pages.
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:
MedlinePlus: Laboratory TestsVocabulary
Virtual resources
Resources & readings
Hand-picked materials for this lesson. Class file items open the document directly; the rest are vetted readings and interactives from other biomedical programs.
Standards this week
WebXam practice
Drop your Week 7 here. Use a clear file name (your initials + project). Routine work still goes to Schoology (via the CMSD portal).
Upload a project