Got Brains: What do our brains do? This unit is intended to engage students with understanding how their brains work. As a start, they investigate how brains are put together by dissecting a sheep’s brain. Then they investigate firsthand not only how their brains sense their environment, but also how their brains can be fooled
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
The Neurological Disorders (ND) Module is organized around five key questions. These questions guide our investigation of the nervous system from the building blocks of our brains to how our brains control behavior. The students will explore each of these questions and then, for a final project, use what they have learned to describe how
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
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.
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
Teaching the Great Diseases (TGD) is a suite of online mini-courses designed to help you learn the content and pedagogy behind The Great Diseases free high school curriculum. Courses are 100% asynchronous and self-paced. Summer courses are offered between June 20th and August 22nd of 2022. We are no longer offering scholarships for the summer.
Why should we care about infectious diseases? The goal of this unit is to improve students’ understanding on the impact that infectious diseases had and still have on societies, and to introduce the factors responsible for infectious diseases. The unit begins by engaging the students by presenting the impact of infectious diseases from historical and
The Infectious Disease (ID) module has been constructed around five key questions that an informed citizen will want answered in order to understand how infectious disease impacts them. The students will address each of these questions and then, for a final project, they will use them to understand an infectious disease of their choice. Virtual