Physical Differences are Part of the Human Experience – This integrated interdisciplinary project is meant to expose human differences through literature and to research how individuals, families, and society respond to them. We have purposely left the idea of human differences open to interpretation. Literature examines a variety of human differences that adolescents will find interesting and worth exploring. However, when students begin to brainstorm research topics, you should narrow the subject to a health-related condition that parallels what students have been studying in science, health, history, and math.
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Project Based Learning for Health Careers Pathway Students – Project-based learning is one strategy to add context to a standards driven curriculum. Students find this type of strategy both engaging and challenging. This document provides practical information regarding the implementation of project-based learning in the classroom, as well as some examples.
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Solving Health Problems in Your Community – This integrated interdisciplinary project model is a wonderful simulation that prepares students to solve real world challenges. Students must identify existing community health problems and then create solutions for them. This moves them into an involvement with their community. This project can be adjusted to be used as a Service Learning or Community Action Project and is very student-centered. Click here
Standards for Success – The final draft of a resource document that will assist educators as they incorporate core academic standrds into health careers education curriculum. Click here
The Genetic Revolution: Medicine for the 21st Century – This integrated interdisciplinary project model is designed to help students understand biotechnology and the ethical issues involved in its applications. Through lessons learned from history, having “hands on” experience of biotech basics, and learning about current progress, we canhelp studnets understand the role of biotechnology in their lives. The lessons consider family health and ethics as well as our rights involving the human genome. Student involvement in the project includes gathering and synthesizing information, and disseminating what they learn to the community. Click here
Women in Herstory – Have women’s achievements in medicine/science contributed to the changing status of women in modern U.S. society? Pursue this interdisciplinary integrated project model that was developed by a team of teachers with the philosophical goal of providing a health care context by which students can truly learn their subject matter. There was never the intent to create career search projects, per se, but to allow the natural evolution of career awareness to occur throughout the process. This is not to portend that one is superior to another, bt merely that this was the choice of this particular interdisciplinary team. Click here
