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Skin Cancer Curriculum
This high school curriculum—a part of Emory University's CancerQuest website, which focuses on the biology, detection, and treatment of cancer—offers resources for teaching about skin cancer, the most frequently diagnosed cancer in the United States. The goal of the curriculum is to educate students about the risks of overexposure to sunlight. The curriculum includes a detailed lesson plan, a PowerPoint presentation with animations and interactive content, a problem-based learning unit, examples of discussion questions, a poster with a three-dimensional image of the skin, homework, and vocabulary. The files for the individual components are available online either in Microsoft Word or in PDF formats; compressed files contain all the components of the curriculum. A full-size poster with 3D glasses is available at no charge upon request; ordering information is on the website.
Anatomy of the Skin
This interactive Web page shows the elements and structures of the skin.
Media: Flash MultimediaProgram Director: Patricia Ann Marsteller, Ph.D.
Award Years: 1989, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
Summary: Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Its HHMI-funded initiatives include:
- The introduction of new interdisciplinary courses and approaches that have helped reform the undergraduate science curriculum;
- The SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research at Emory) program, which has placed and mentored more than 1000 students since 1990 and acted as a catalyst for an international research program;
- The HHMI Curriculum Development Fellows program, which gives selected graduate students and postdocs the chance to help develop new courses, problem-based learning materials and supplemental instruction for introductory biology, chemistry and mathematics courses;
- The formation of collaborative communities of current and future faculty, undergraduate students and high school teachers to improve science education in metro Atlanta schools; and
- The development of Web-based interdisciplinary curricula, such as CancerQuest and Cases Online.