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In a Box Curriculum Series
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The Oregon Health and Science University has produced a series of “in a box” learning modules that explore health and science topics for grades 4-8. The modules currently include: Eye in a Box, Ear in a Box, Brain in a Box, and Guts in a Box. Each fully equipped box—which is available to rural teachers in Oregon free of charge—provides materials and step-by-step instructions for a variety of activities, conducted at different stations around a classroom, which are related to the health, function, and disease of the eye, ear, guts, or brain, as well as to careers related to these topics. Each box contains grade-appropriate body artifacts, DVDs, activities reproducible for students, and lesson extensions. For example, the Eye in a Box module helps students identify visible and hidden parts of the eye, understand the optic nerve connection to the brain, learn about the Braille system, simulate eye diseases, and explore the role of health professionals in detecting eye problems. The eye box also contains a model of the eye and an ophthalmoscope, cards for a vision test, Braille cards, goggles, and a “persistence of vision” clock or fan, as well as DVDs, posters, and activities developed by the National Eye Institute and other organizations. The program’s website includes a teacher’s manual for each box and links to videos that provide instructions for use of the boxes. Educators around the country can use the ideas and the websites available in the teacher’s manuals to create similar projects for their own classrooms. They can also obtain the actual boxes for cost or can contract for a consultation on how to implement this project by contacting Shera Felde, education director of the Oregon Area Health Education Centers, at feldes@ohsu.edu.
Teacher's Manual for Eye-in-a-Box Curriculum
The teacher's manual contains instructions for using the materials in the box, a glossary, Web resources, and family involvement ideas.
Media: Web pageProgram Director: Lisa Dodson, M.D.
Award Years: 2007
Summary: The Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine is a public medical school in Portland, Oregon. Its HHMI-funded initiatives include:
- In conjunction with the Oregon Area Health Education Centers (AHEC), offering the Great Discoveries Workshop, an inquiry-based science education curriculum, to upper elementary and middle school teachers in selected underperforming, rural, and high minority schools. The curriculum is built around study of the five senses and is linked to real-life science and technology;
- Using a "train the trainer" approach to enable trained teachers to return and instruct others in their districts to use the curriculum. Teachers attending the workshops receive instruction kits with supplies that can be replenished;
- Developing curriculum modules, designed and planned by OHSU scientists and clinicians, called the "In-a-Box" program. These self-contained boxes, on topics such as the eye, the ear, the brain, and the digestive system, contain classroom activities, videos, posters, and artifacts that supplement the resource kits of the Great Discoveries Workshop; and
- Utilizing summer camps for students who have participated in these lessons to promote year-round learning, involve families, and engage students in AHEC pipeline activities designed to promote science and math success and encourage rural and disadvantaged students to pursue science and engineering careers.