Category Archives: Great Diseases

Cancer

The Cancer (CA) Module focuses on understanding cancer as a disease, and the challenges of diagnosing and treating it. The Cancer Module has five units, each of which builds upon the others that came before it. The goal of each unit is to answer a key question about cancer, and what this means for our

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Metabolic Disease

The Metabolic Disease (MD) module has a simple goal – to bring real world science into the classroom! Students will learn about biology in a framework that is relevant to their everyday lives. The study of metabolic disease provides this framework because it focuses on how our body responds to food and how our lifestyle

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Webinars

Interested in future webinars? Let us know what you’d like us to talk about here. The Great Diseases hosts webinars to present the science behind current topics in public health. We also engage in discussion with teachers on how to teach these topics to students by integrating concepts and lessons from our high school curriculum.

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Workshops

Summer workshops for 2020 are currently suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. We are evaluating the possibility of conducting online workshops. We would love to hear from you regarding your interest; please fill out our contact form here. We offer in-person professional development summer workshops to provide you with the background to teach The Great

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