Unit 3

UNIT 3 PREFACE

In this unit, you will take on the role of expedition leaders who escort adventure travelers through a series of activities and events in extreme or remote environments. You are tasked with assuring the health and wellness of the group—focusing on the cardiovascular, respiratory, and immune systems—as you identify and address health risks or challenges travelers may encounter in these environments. You will also investigate pathogens native to the location and interventions to prevent and treat those pathogens. In the problem, you will use what you have learned to work together to respond to an emergency medical incident that happens on an adventure trip, presented in an interactive simulation.

Unit 3: Adventure Awaits

In this unit, students join a team of expedition leaders who escort adventure travelers through a series of activities and events in extreme or remote environments. They are tasked to ensure the health and wellness of their group—focusing on the cardiovascular, respiratory, and immune systems—as they identify and address health risks or challenges travelers may encounter in these environments.

They investigate pathogens native to an assigned environment and interventions to prevent and treat those pathogens. Students use what they have learned to work together to respond to an emergency medical incident that happens on an adventure trip, presented in an interactive simulation.

Lesson 3.1 Cardiopulmonary Connection
Lesson 3.1 introduces students to their new role as adventure guides for an expedition company. Through the engaging lens of adventure medicine, students investigate the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Students explore the movement of blood to our organs and tissues, build the heart and major blood vessels on their Maniken® model, perform cardiovascular measurements and calculations, and then learn how to record and interpret EKGs.

They investigate the connection between the cardiovascular and respiratory systems through a sheep pluck dissection, diagnose a fictional patient with respiratory issues, and use spirometry to measure lung volumes and flow rates. Finally, students apply all they’ve learned to analyze the cardiovascular and respiratory data of fictional clients and then make a recommendation as to whether they should be cleared for a climbing expedition.

Lesson 3.2 Body Guards
Students continue their work with the expedition company as they explore the systems, structures, and cells that unction to protect the body from illness and injury. They investigate agents of disease and how the human body works to fight against invaders. They play a Roblox® game designed to teach them how the specific immune cells function in response to infection by viruses and bacteria. Students complete a plaque assay in the lab to evaluate the effectiveness of antiviral medicines. They dissect a cow eye to investigate conditions of the eye that can be an issue on adventure expeditions.

Lesson 3.3 Adventure Medicine
In the problem, students use an interactive to design an expedition, choosing the destinations and activities, and then prepare a guide to help keep travelers healthy on this journey. Their guide must address the impacts of their assigned environment on human physiology—specifically the cardiovascular, respiratory, and immune systems. They must identify and address health risks of the extreme environment, as well as the risks related to pathogens native to the chosen location.

Through an interactive experience, student teams are faced with an emergency on their trip. Using the guide they created, they work together to apply what they have learned to help their clients through the emergency and maintain the health and well-being of all adventurers on the expedition.