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Medical History Display

Designing a Display of Medical Accomplishments and Historical Significance

This project involves researching a period of medical history as well as medical accomplishments and/or persons who contributed to medicine during that time frame. You will work in a group of three or four to create a medical history display that contains exhibits pertinent to your historical time period. The display, which you will construct on poster board, butcher paper, or a display board, must incorporate a variety of elements – pictures, replications of art and artifacts, graphic displays, maps, primary source documents, current events –to show a clear view of your era.

Requirements

1. Your display should include most of the statements listed below:

• Discoveries or accomplishments of the era

• People who contributed to the developments or discoveries

• Beliefs or theories related to diseases

• Health care workers of the era

• Health care trends of the era

1. Each exhibit of your museum display must combine at least four elements listed below. A caption should accompany each explaining how the information relates to your topic.

( Pictures ( Copies of primary source documents

( Timelines ( Illustrations

( Symbols ( Maps

( Charts, graphs, tables ( Collages

( Music ( Important Quotes

( Computer display ( Replications of art and artifacts

( Diary accounts of participants ( Poetry and literature

2. Each exhibit in your display must have written plaques that introduce viewers to the exhibit. The plaques should include:

1) An introduction to the topic

2) The people or person involved

3) An explanation of the discovery or innovation

4) The significance of the innovation both then and now

The plaques should be on index cards – any size.

3. Each group member is required to brainstorm ideas, do research and contribute information for each exhibit, create the design of the elements, and help with the writing and creation of the elements of each display.

4. Each student also will be assigned one or more of the following roles:

Logistics Designs the layout for each part of the display. Helps with the production and assembly of the exhibits.

Historical Writer Oversees the writing of the text for each plaque.

Creates brief captions for all parts of the exhibits.

Graphic Artist Oversees the design of all graphic elements –

illustrations, maps, collages, and the like – for each of

the exhibits. List all ideas for the museum display and

the resources needed.

Collector Responsible for ensuring that all necessary resources

for the exhibits are gathered. Assembles and glues or

tapes all part of each display.

Possible Topics for Your Displays

1. Ancient Egyptians and Chinese

2. Ancient Greeks and Romans

3. The Dark Ages and Middle Ages – AD 400 to AD 1400

4. The Renaissance - AD 1350 to AD 1650

5. The 16th and 17th Centuries

6. The 18th Century

7. The 19th Century

8. The 20th Century

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