Mental Health Video Project

Teen Mental Health Topics
last updated: 10/03/2006

Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depression	Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anger Management & Relationship Conflicts	Self-injury (self mutilation)
Eating Disorders	Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Improving Family Relationships	Teen Suicide

ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

Students will be able to recognize indications for mental health disorders and know how and when to get intervening help, whether they are the patient or someone close to the patient.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

How can I tell the difference between each disorder - for myself or for another? Where do I go for information and help with any disorder? Who can or should intervene - how and when? What if I or no one else takes any action?

PROJECT OBJECTIVES & LEARNING GOALS

Students will recognize the symptoms of common mental health disorders and how to recognize the need for and timing of intervention either as a patient or for someone close by.
Students will know possible treatments for each disorder.
Provide practice in using good information literacy skills.
Provide students will the opportunity to practice collaborative skills.
Provide students the opportunity to develop video filming and editing skills.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Your group will produce a video (10 minutes maximum) to be shown in FMP, shared with other classes at NCHS via IPTV, and shared with other health teachers and health professionals at the next DuPage County Institute . Your video needs to communicate the following about your chosen disorder:

development and symptoms of disorder
acceptable treatments for disorder
ways and means of intervention
sources of help and information (school & community)
what happens if no intervention takes place

PROJECT OPTIONS

Your group will select one of the following scenarios as a means of developing your video:
    1. Compare/contrast healthy ways vs. unhealthy ways to deal with your disorder
    2. Compare/contrast two different disorders (a primary disorder selected by lot and secondary chosen by the group)
    3. Compare/contrast a teenager's life who has the disorder with one who does not.
    4. A day in the life of a teenager with the disorder.

Your group will also select the format of your video:
    1. Documentary (factual information to influence & inform)
    2. Public Service Announcement (announcement on television or radio serving the public interest)
    3. Drama (a serious narrative work/program for television, radio, or film)

Elements for your video may be obtained through the following ways:
    a. Footage you film yourself
    b. Still digitized photographs
    c. Video clips from the Internet (royalty free)
    d. Voiceovers you record yourself
    e. Music (royalty free)

TIMELINE

Day 1	Introduction of project scope, sequence, audience, and elements
Day 2	Collaborative development of assessment pieces
Day 3	Research orientation to resources available for content development
Day 4	Research Day
Days 5 & 6	Group collaboration to develop script, storyboard, bibliography, and content checklist
Days 7, 8, & 9	Film or locate footage and video elements, cross check content
Day 10	Instruction in using Moviemaker to edit video elements
Days 11 & 12	Edit video; cross check video content
Days 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17	View all videos in class; collect data for test review; vote on "Best video, Best Actor/Actress, Best cinematography, and Best editing". (Guest experts from community to also view and participate in voting.)
Day 18	Vote for Health Academy Awards

RESOURCES

Each person in your group needs to:

find and use at least two (2) different types of sources (books, periodical articles -- either from print or from online databases, websites, experts through interviews)
correctly cite them collectively, in writing and in your video credits, according to the A+ Style Manual.

PRESENTATIONS & "HEALTH ACADEMY AWARDS"

You will present your project to the class. The order in which you present will be chosen by lot.

Your class will vote on which video is "The Best" from your class period.
Your class will vote on which video from all class periods taught by your teacher is "The Best".
Your class will help select "The Best" from all "the best" videos from all the health classes.
Class period winners will be posted to a website for you to go to and view then vote for each level of the "Health Academy Awards".
Ultimate winners will be shown to FMP classes next semester, posted to the building IPTV server, and shown at the next DuPage County Institute.

ASSESSMENTS FOR SUCCESS

There are several forms of assessment. Click here to see them all.

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