Science and Technology: How Healthcare and Medicine Affect Us
Introduction
This interdisciplinary unit was developed as a joint effort between five high school teachers with diverse content background. It was prepared as a backwards design activity for their current and future students as a result of their Masters of Education degree program through the University of Maryland University College.
This unit is intended to be used as a cross-curricular activity to show the intricacies of medicine and healthcare through the lens of different subject areas: English, Science, Spanish and Technology. Each subject area has its own unique task with the end goal focusing on an aspect of healthcare and/or medicine within the Science and Technology theme.
Unless noted within the lesson student prior knowledge does not need to be extensive. Students will need to know how to navigate websites, interact with computers, and create multimedia presentations. As for the Spanish lessons, it is important that students have the vocabulary knowledge expected at the level stated in order to complete tasks successfully.
Depending on the length of the class period, students will have between three to five days to complete the assignments provided on each lesson. Each lesson provides the necessary handouts, rubrics and scoring guidelines. We hope you enjoy sharing our lessons with your students.
Curriculum Standards
Science: To Vaccinate or Not?
By: Lauren Geier
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Virginia State Standards
BIO.4 The student will investigate and understand life functions
d) human health issues, human anatomy, and body systems;
e) how viruses compare with organisms; and
f) evidence supporting the germ theory of infectious disease.
Technology: Science and Ethics of GMOs
By: Chris Baugher
[email protected]
ITEEA Standard
14: Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use medical technologies.
3.3.4 The student will interpret how the effects of DNA alteration can be beneficial or harmful to the individual, society, and/or the environment.
AP Spanish: Los curanderos hoy día (Healer's in today's society)
By: Amarilys Heard
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Standards: ACTFL
2. Communication and collaboration
a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media
3. Research and information fluency
b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
Spanish II: Using the Internet for Diagnosis and Remedies of Spanish-Speaking Countries
By: Héctor Ávilaflores
[email protected]
ACTFL Standards
Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own
This interdisciplinary unit was developed as a joint effort between five high school teachers with diverse content background. It was prepared as a backwards design activity for their current and future students as a result of their Masters of Education degree program through the University of Maryland University College.
This unit is intended to be used as a cross-curricular activity to show the intricacies of medicine and healthcare through the lens of different subject areas: English, Science, Spanish and Technology. Each subject area has its own unique task with the end goal focusing on an aspect of healthcare and/or medicine within the Science and Technology theme.
Unless noted within the lesson student prior knowledge does not need to be extensive. Students will need to know how to navigate websites, interact with computers, and create multimedia presentations. As for the Spanish lessons, it is important that students have the vocabulary knowledge expected at the level stated in order to complete tasks successfully.
Depending on the length of the class period, students will have between three to five days to complete the assignments provided on each lesson. Each lesson provides the necessary handouts, rubrics and scoring guidelines. We hope you enjoy sharing our lessons with your students.
Curriculum Standards
Science: To Vaccinate or Not?
By: Lauren Geier
[email protected]
Virginia State Standards
BIO.4 The student will investigate and understand life functions
d) human health issues, human anatomy, and body systems;
e) how viruses compare with organisms; and
f) evidence supporting the germ theory of infectious disease.
Technology: Science and Ethics of GMOs
By: Chris Baugher
[email protected]
ITEEA Standard
14: Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use medical technologies.
- 14 J: Genetic engineering involves modifying the structure of DNA to produce novel genetic make-ups.
- 14 M: The science of biochemistry and molecular biology have made it possible to manipulate the genetic information found in living organisms.
3.3.4 The student will interpret how the effects of DNA alteration can be beneficial or harmful to the individual, society, and/or the environment.
AP Spanish: Los curanderos hoy día (Healer's in today's society)
By: Amarilys Heard
[email protected]
Standards: ACTFL
- Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
- Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied
- Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures
2. Communication and collaboration
a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media
3. Research and information fluency
b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
Spanish II: Using the Internet for Diagnosis and Remedies of Spanish-Speaking Countries
By: Héctor Ávilaflores
[email protected]
ACTFL Standards
Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own