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  Senior High School: Home Economics  Teacher: Ms. Junko Mizumoto
School: Josai Senior High School, Tokushima Prefecture
Use of IT in Class
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Equipment ■Computer ■Projector ■Screen □Electronic Whiteboard □Visual Presenter □Digital Camera □Video Player ■Internet ■Digital Contents □CD-ROM □Speakers □Others〔 〕

Point of Interest
Each movement involved in nursing care can be presented in slow motion, thereby allowing the students to grasp the particulars and to be motivated to practice.

Unit
Providing Assistance for Someone Who Need to Move from the Bed to the Wheelchair
Contents: based on curriculum guidelines
Content (3) Daily Lives and Welfare of the Elderly
C Basic principles of nursing the elderly
  Actual experience in providing assistance in activities of daily living will enable students to recognize the necessary care and importance of communication when nursing the elderly, thereby preparing them to properly care for the elderly.

Teaching Objectives
(1) To understand the importance of nursing to prevent becoming bed-bound.
(2) To experience the actual procedures of assisting movement from the bed to the wheelchair.

Lesson Plan
(1) Learn that being bed-bound is the result of leaving the elderly in bed. Recognize the importance of providing nursing care that supports the elderly to rise and move from the bed.
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  [Abstract]
The teacher is lecturing on the importance of nursing by using visual contents.
   
(2) Select two students to play the roles of the elderly needing assistance and the caregiver and have them act out their roles when moving from the bed to the wheelchair on their own.
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Students are trying to think of a better way to assist someone in moving from the bed to the wheelchair.
   
(3) Realize that knowledge and skills are required for safe and comfortable nursing care.
(4) Instruct two students to act out their roles while watching animation contents projected on the screen on how to assist movement from the bed to the wheelchair.
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Students are practicing the actual movement in nursing care while watching the animation contents projected onto the screen.
   
(5) Group the sitting students into pairs and have them practice the actual procedures for assisting the elderly to stand up.
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Students are practicing the actual movement in nursing care while watching the animation contents projected onto the screen.
   
(6) Discuss any thoughts or opinions about the nursing care exercise.

Preparation/Consideration
(1) Use contents in a way that they can not only show animated nursing techniques but allows a simulated learning experience.
(2) Conduct the lesson so that students will recognize through actual practice the necessary care and importance of communication when providing nursing care to the elderly.

Reference
Hi! Home Economics (Tokushima Educational Research Center on Home Economics in Sr. High School) registered original digital contents
“Assisting Self Support in Daily Living” Moving from the Bed to the Wheelchair
http://e-school.cue.tokushima-u.ac.jp/hi-katei/ka-kyozai/fu05jiritu/index.htm

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