Week 5 - Checklist and Goals
Goals:
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Due Dates
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Step 2 - Learn about the basic ingredients in everyday medicine like advil, benadryl, and motrin and what they do to your body
Motrin Ingredients:
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Benadryl Ingredients:
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Advil Ingredients:
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Common Ingredients:
- magnesium stearate
- microcrystalline cellulose
- titanium dioxide
Magnesium Stearate:
- What is it? - It is a soap consisting of salt containing two equivalents of stearate and one magnesium cation.
- How much should you take - When taking Magnesium stearate, remember to keep a consistency but not too much because large doses can lead to damage of the skin and causes liver toxicity.
- Benefits - Magnesium stearate provides a small amount of magnesium, but it's primarily used as an inactive ingredient in the pharmaceutical and supplement industries to produce pills with more consistent dosing.
- Negative effects - It delays the absorption of these nutrients by the intestines.
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Microcrystalline Cellulose:
- What is it? - Term for refined wood pulp and is used as a texturizer, an anti-caking agent, a fat substitute, an emulsifier, and an extender.
- Benefits - Microcrystalline Cellulose allows the creation of an unbreakable pill or tablet. In large quantities it may enhance weight loss.
- Negative effects - When using Microcrystalline Cellulose, you may also experience gas, bloating, depression, forgetfulness, lack of energy, and headaches.
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Titanium dioxide:
- What is it? - A white unreactive solid that occurs naturally as the mineral rutile and is used extensively as a white pigment.
- Benefits - Titanium Dioxide is a naturally occurring mineral used as a coloring agent, whitener, thickening agent, and sunscreen ingredient in cosmetics and personal care products.
- Negative Effects - Titanium Dioxide may induce toxic effects in your brain and cause nerve damage, and some may also be carcinogenic.
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Step 3 - Learn about the different classes of medication like antihistamines, decongestants, and others and what they are used for.
Heard before:
Haven’t heard before:
Heard before:
- Antibiotic - a drug that cures illnesses and infections caused by bacteria.
- Antidepressant - a drug used for treating someone who is depressed.
- Antihistamine - a drug used to treat an allergy.
- Anti-inflammatory - a drug taken to reduce inflammation.
- Decongestant - a drug that helps you breathe more easily when you have a cold.
- Inhalant - a medicine or drug that you breathe into your lungs.
- Injection - a drug or another substance that is injected into your body.
- Laxative - a medicine, food, or drink that helps you to make solid waste leave your body when you use the toilet.
- Narcotic - a drug that people use when they are very sick in order to feel less pain and sleep better.
- Sedative - a drug that makes someone calmer, or makes them sleep.
Haven’t heard before:
- Amphetamine - a drug that increases energy and excitement and makes you less hungry.
- Analgesic - a drug acting to relieve pain.
- Anticoagulant - a substance that prevents blood from coagulating, or becoming more solid.
- Antiretroviral - antiretroviral drugs are used to treat certain types of virus, especially HIV.
- Contraceptive - a drug, method, or object used for preventing a woman from becoming pregnant.
- Expectorant - a medicine that you use for helping you to cough liquid up from your lungs.
- Hypnotic - a drug that makes you go to sleep.
- Intranasal corticosteroid - a drug inhaled into the nose to help relieve inflammation in the nasal passageways.
- Prophylactic - a medicine or treatment used for preventing disease or infection.
- Statin - a drug that is used to reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood.
Step 4 - Learn about the chemical name of some classes of drugs and an example of their name brand.
Class of Drug
Antihistamine Decongestant Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Analgesic Nonsedating Antihistamine Intranasal Corticosteroid |
Chemical Name
Diphenhydramine Cetirizine Pseudoephedrine Ibuprofen Acetaminophen Loratadine Fluticasone |
Name Brand
BenadrylⓇ ZyrtecⓇ SudafedⓇ MotrinⓇ TylenolⓇ ClaritinⓇ FlonaseⓇ |
Habits of Mind
Collaboration & Leadership -
I collaborated with many people inside and outside of the classroom. Some people in the classroom from my original group include Jack, August, and Ciera. We collaborated when we were helping each other with ideas fro the final project and help with our steps and due dates up to our final project. I also collaborated with my parents in order to help me understand better.
Critical Thinking -
I believe I did a great amount of critical thinking because it was hard for me to come up with steps to do throughout the term, but I finally came to a conclusion o what I needed to do each week before my final project. I also thought critically thought about my final project because it was unique about doing case scenarios and having the class involved.
Problem Solving -
I also problem solved because after I proposed my final project idea to Tunink, she told me that they could be some things I could tweak to make my presentation even better. I thought about some ways I could change my presentation and later applied them. This is problem solving because I later made the class involved and interested.
I collaborated with many people inside and outside of the classroom. Some people in the classroom from my original group include Jack, August, and Ciera. We collaborated when we were helping each other with ideas fro the final project and help with our steps and due dates up to our final project. I also collaborated with my parents in order to help me understand better.
Critical Thinking -
I believe I did a great amount of critical thinking because it was hard for me to come up with steps to do throughout the term, but I finally came to a conclusion o what I needed to do each week before my final project. I also thought critically thought about my final project because it was unique about doing case scenarios and having the class involved.
Problem Solving -
I also problem solved because after I proposed my final project idea to Tunink, she told me that they could be some things I could tweak to make my presentation even better. I thought about some ways I could change my presentation and later applied them. This is problem solving because I later made the class involved and interested.
English Language Arts Practices
Research -
I did a lot of research when completing each of my steps of pharmaceuticals. Most of my research consisted of medicine, drugs, medical terms, and more. Part of my research was about common illnesses, side effects of different drugs, and when you should take one drug over the other and why as presented in my final project.
I did a lot of research when completing each of my steps of pharmaceuticals. Most of my research consisted of medicine, drugs, medical terms, and more. Part of my research was about common illnesses, side effects of different drugs, and when you should take one drug over the other and why as presented in my final project.