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Career Explorations This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: Students will investigate the varied career opportunities available within the health and biomedical sciences. They will conduct research on possible career paths and investigate the skills needed for each one. This unit will also give students an opportunity to learn about typical activities in various jobs and help them identify potential careers that match their interests, strengths, and goals. In addition, students will explore the broader social and economic impact of their career choices, while reviewing the historical origins of various health-related careers and their significance to the welfare of humankind. |
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Catch the Fever This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: In this unit, students will explore the emergence and impact of communicable diseases on society. Students will investigate the role of microorganisms in causing disease. They will study the impact of a public health infrastructure, along with medical and pharmaceutical advances, on the evolution of microorganisms. |
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Connecting Math to Our Lives In this task, students will explore how math is being used in their community and shed light on promoting equity. This task includes: |
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Crime Scene Investigation This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: In this unit, students take on the role of crime scene investigators to solve a murder that has occurred at the school. They will integrate math, science, and language arts into the study of forensic science and associated legal careers such as district attorneys, law enforcement, pathology, forensic science, and medical examination. |
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Daffodils and Tulips In this task, students around the world will plant either tulips of daffodils, record data, and compare when they bloom. This task includes: |
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Do No Harm This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: In this unit, students will learn about the role government plays in setting policy and supporting and regulating various aspects of the healthcare industry, and about the impact these activities have on the lives of ordinary citizens. The unit will focus on three areas in which federal or state governments have influenced biomedical research and healthcare practice: stem cell research (Subunit 1), pharmaceutical advertising (Subunit 2), and vaccination against communicable disease (Subunit 3). |
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Good Eats This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: In this unit, students will learn about the connection between nutrition and health. Through interdisciplinary study in Biology, Health Science, Interpersonal Relations, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and World History, they will explore the questions of why we should care about what we eat and how food is produced. Students will explore concepts ranging from the body’s physical requirements in terms of calories and nutrients to the physiological and psychological outcomes resulting from various levels of nutrition and health. They will be introduced to cellular respiration, recombinant DNA technology, and ethical issues raised by using—or withholding the use of—biotechnology to increase food production. |
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Make A Difference In this task, students must work together to plan a task they can do for the community. Performing this with a partnering organization, students will collect data on the impact of their task and present in a public setting. This task includes: |
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Money Matters In the Money Matters task, students will l be able to get into conversation about money, learn some facts about history of money and about money in other countries, discuss students’ pocket money and proverbs about money, make media products about money. |
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Money Matters In this task, students will collaborate with participating classes in discussing their opinions of money in an online forum. This task includes: |
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