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Health and the Human Machine Curriculum Units
Twelve curriculum units, developed by teachers who were 2007 Fellows at the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, address broad issues of human physiology with lessons for different grade levels. For example, high school units examine the genetic modification of foods, use a crime scene analysis to teach about cardiovascular physiology, and feature graphic design techniques to help students learn about nutrition, smoking, and body image. Three other high school units investigate infectious diseases, discussing how mechanisms of infection influence physiology and the progress of disease. At the middle school level, four teachers from the same school offer two lessons on nutrition—including one for students studying French—that are paired with two units on cardiovascular health and obesity. For elementary school, a nutritional information curriculum unit includes a primer on the sources of nutrients in foods. Another unit helps elementary students understand the impact of disabilities on students in their classrooms. The units, each of which has an “entry guide” summarizing what the unit provides and for whom it is intended, contain an introduction, objectives, teaching strategies, sample lessons, classroom activities, and lists of resources for teachers and students. The website of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute—a pioneering university-school collaboration that integrates curriculum development with intellectual renewal for teachers—features several thousand curriculum units that can be adapted for classroom use. A 2009 report, To Strengthen Teaching: An Evaluation of Teachers Institute Experiences, is available as a related link. It presents the results of a study of participants in Teachers Institutes in Houston, New Haven, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh from 2003-2008 and in National Initiative seminars at Yale from 2005-2008.
À Votre Santé: A French-Language Unit on Nutrition
This curriculum unit, designed for a French class, is one of 12 that address broad issues of human physiology for different grade levels.
Media: Web pageProgram Director: Robert J. Wyman, Ph.D.
Award Years: 1989, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
Summary: Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Its HHMI-funded initiatives include:
- Increasing diversity in the sciences through its flagship STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program, which has been nationally recognized for its success in fostering ethnic minority students on their way to science degrees and biomedical careers;
- Improving the quality of teacher training through programs such as the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, which invites teachers to participate in seminars where they create new curricula, and Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program, which trains new science teachers.
- Offering summer residential programs with classes and labs for inner-city high school students, and providing science enrichment in city schools through DEMOS, a program that encourages Yale students to volunteer in school enrichment activities, science demonstrations in the elementary and middle schools and science and math research teams in the upper grades.