Are
you looking for interdisciplinary curriculum? How about topics
that grab your students’ attention? Are student community-based
projects of interest to you? If
yes to any of these questions, the Promoting
Understanding and Learning for Society and Environmental
Health (PULSE) curriculum will be useful
to you. Developed
lessons are appropriate for 9th, 10, 11th, and 12th grades.
The units are in the final stages of vetting
and editing. If there is one that is particularly interesting
to you please contact Marti
Lindsey, Primary Investigator.
The
Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center at The
University of Arizona is looking for individual teachers
and teams of teachers to pilot test PULSE project lessons
and units. Try
out a standards based curriculum designed to engage
your students. You will receive support and a stipend! Pilot
teachers will receive training on the implementation
of the units and a stipend for participating. Involvement
includes teaching and providing feedback on the PULSE
lessons.
The
units use environmental health or biomedical issues
as a context for teaching subjects in an interdisciplinary
constructivist manner. A team of teachers and UA
Southwest Environmental Health Science Center staff
carefully designed these units to meet educational
standards for each discipline. Each 8-week unit
includes a complete set of lessons for science,
social studies and language arts. There are also
supporting lessons in mathematics. The unit culminates
with a major project that typically has a community
service aspect.
Contact Marti
Lindsey or
Stephanie
Nardei for more information.
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The
units integrate the following subjects:
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