Projects of Interest to High School Teachers and Children
Visualizing Addiction: Neuroscience Imaging for Secondary Science Education
Steven Moore, Ph.D.
Center for Imaging Processing in Education
stevem@cipe.com
Product Developed: a CD-ROM, Teacher Pack, Student Pack, and poster, entitled Visualizing Addiction, for high school and college classrooms
Target Audiences: high school and college students and teachers
Goal: These materials use authentic image analysis tools, analysis of real neuroimaging research on addiction, and discovery-based learning to teach about the neurobiology of addiction. They feature eight lessons, interactive tutorials, and supplemental resources and contain lesson overviews, answer keys, test items, and discussion questions.
Alignment with Standards: National Science Education Standards
Drugs: Integrating High School Biology and Chemistry
The Pharmacology Education Partnership
Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, Ph.D.
Duke University
schwa001@duke.edu
Product Developed: a series of curriculum modules on drug abuse, including a set of learning objectives, an inquiry-directed student handout, a teacher's guide, a glossary, a resource list and student hands-on activities and assessment strategies.
Target Audience: high school students and their teachers
Goal: These materials are designed to help high school students integrate what they have learned in biology and chemistry using pharmacology, particularly the pharmacology of abused drug. They also include related subjects, such as public policy, psychology and social sciences.
Alignment with Standards: National Science Education Standards
Availability: The materials are available in both paper format and on the web (www.thepepproject.net).
Papers and Presentations:
- Integrating High School Biology and Chemistry Using Pharmacology Topics Related to Drug Abuse: A Model Curriculum, Schwartz-Bloom, et al. (2000) Society for Neuroscience Abstract 26:40.
- Integrating Pharmacology Topics in High School Biology and Chemistry Classes Improves Performance, Schwartz-Bloom R. & Halpin, M. (2003) Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 40, No. 9, 922-938.
- Pharmacology Topics Help High School Students Learn Basic Principles of Biology and Chemistry, Halpin, MJ., et al. (2005) The Science Teacher 72:48-51.
Genetics of Addiction Program
Louisa Stark, Ph.D.
University of Utah
lstark@genetics.utah.edu
Product Developed: The New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain web based curriculum supplement for enhancing teacher and student understanding of the neurobiology and genetics of addiction
Target Audience: high school students and teachers
Goal: This web site is designed for use in courses such as Biology or Anatomy and Physiology, with the goal of improving knowledge about genetics and its role in addiction. In developing these materials, Dr. Stark used a novel approach to web-based educational materials, Exploragraphic Web Design, a web program that optimally utilizes the Internet as a learning environment and provides multiple levels of information, facilitating differentiated learning.
Alignment with Standards: National Science Education Standards
Availability: http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction
Starnet - Research Experiences for Students and Teachers
Deborah Nickerson, Ph.D.
University of Washington
debnick@u.washington.edu
Product Developed: authentic scientific research program for high school biology teachers and their students
Target Audience: high school biology students
Goal: This grant involved students in authentic research by having them sequence a portion of a gene involved in nicotine metabolism. In addition, teachers received one week of professional development to prepare them to lead students in learning about the biology of drug abuse and how DNA sequencing contributes to our understanding of it.
Alignment with Standards: National Science Education Standards
Starnet - Research Experiences for Students and Teachers
Deborah Nickerson, Ph.D.
University of Washington
debnick@u.washington.edu
Product to be Developed: materials that guide students through designing and implementing a case control study of genetic and environmental factors involved in smoking behavior
Target Audience: high school students and their teachers
Goal: Through this project, teachers, scientists, and ethicists are developing curriculum materials that will build student understanding of public health issues related to tobacco use and how to design a research study using human subjects. The materials will include a classroom-friendly genotyping protocol that can easily be incorporated into classrooms across the U.S. Students will have the opportunity to design a questionnaire to collect information about subjects' environment and smoking behavior, genotype subjects at genetic loci implicated in smoking behavior, and analyze data collected, as well as consider ethical issues related to research.
Alignment with Standards: National Science Education Standards
Exploring Drug Abuse Through the Science of Epidemiology
Mark Kaelin, Ph.D.
Montclair State University
kaelinm@mail.montclair.edu
Product to be Developed: a curriculum that is exploring drug abuse issues relevant to high school students through the science of epidemiology
Target Audience: high school students and their teachers
Goal: This grant is developing a curriculum focused on teaching drug abuse within the context of epidemiology while engaging the high school students in complex questions. Teachers have recognized the value of epidemiology for empowering students to make more informed health decisions, increasing students' media literacy and their understanding of public health messages, increasing students' understanding of the basis for determining risk, improving students' mathematical and scientific literacy, and expanding students' understanding of scientific methods and developing their critical thinking skills. These coupled with the need to teach drug abuse education, opens the possibility for a new innovative curriculum that teaches drug abuse in a unique fashion.
Alignment with Standards: National Science Education Standards
Availability: Once it is completed, the curriculum will be available on the web.
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