Teaching ideas & Discussion Starters: Sitting, TV, and Mental Disorders

Here are three more ideas that I have gathered from the internet and gifted education friends. Enjoy and remember all previous project and teaching ideas can be found on this blog here.

If you have any good ideas that should be shared please let me know. I will be sure to give you credit and all that jazz.

As always, thanks to Otto from Canada for these ideas.

1. Why sitting is a dangerous health threat

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/08/dont-just-sit-there/

2. Should kids be in charge of their own tv shows?

http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20061023_135100_135100&source=srch

3. What is a mental disorder? The new psychiatrists' handbook suggests we are all now even closer to the brink of having one. Are we allowing the rebranding of many life experiences as mental disorders?

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/04/aspergers-syndrome-to-be-removed-from-psychiatrists-diagnostic-guide/

http://www.news1130.com/2013/03/15/new-diagnostic-book-for-mental-disorders-too-broad-critics/

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/10/mental-illness-does-it-really-affect-one-in-five/