Free High School Curriculum Approachable, innovative, and life-relevant content, designed to improve science engagement and health literacy. Co-developed by teachers and scientists, The Great Diseases curriculum provides a biological framework for students to learn high school biology in a more relevant and immediate context. The curriculum was designed for high school science classrooms, but can
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Inform the public: Create a public health brochure Over the course of the final four lessons of the Metabolic Disease Module, students will work together in groups to create a 15 minute presentation about a current nutritional topic of their choice. Each group member must speak to at least one of the following points with evidence supporting
Inform the public: Create a public health brochure Students will use their new knowledge of infectious diseases to make a public health brochure about an infectious disease of their choice. The goal is for students to inform the public about each of the questions they have addressed in the previous units.
We have three main research goals: To determine what impacts The Great Diseases curriculum has on students’ engagement in science and health literacy. To investigate how the curriculum impacts student interest in STEM topics, awareness of STEM careers, and confidence in their ability to obtain STEM careers. To identify the most practical and effective ways
Lab Day 1 – Meeting Stan Before beginning work, we recommend having the students complete and sign the Laboratory Safety Statement from the American Society or Microbiology to reinforce the idea that working with microorganisms should be taken seriously. Next, the students will learn about drug resistance and the challenges of diagnosing and treating antibiotic resistant
Learning About Viruses, Epidemics, and Ebola for Middle School The purpose of these six lessons is to provide middle school students with a basic understanding of how viruses cause disease, how infectious diseases spread to become epidemics, and the challenges of bringing an epidemic under control, all from the perspective of the Ebola virus and
Epidemics: Ebola The five lessons of the Epidemics: Ebola unit can be used as a stand alone or as a supplement to the Great Diseases Infectious Disease (ID) curriculum. The purpose of these lessons is to provide high school students with a basic understanding of how viruses cause disease, how infectious diseases spread to become epidemics
How do we get better? In earlier units we discussed how the immune system provides different ‘layers’ of protection focusing mainly on immune barriers. Now we will turn our attention to how innate and adaptive immunity function. We will simplify the processes of innate and adaptive immunity into two stages, recognition and response. So far
Case Study 1 — Barbara’s dilemma: radiation therapy In this study, students must wrestle with the unknowns of science and medicine. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, a patient receives conflicting treatment suggestions from two different doctors. Students must evaluate the pros and cons to each treatment option to arrive at their own suggestion for