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Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Nebraska Career and Technical Education Instructional Resource Vetting Rubric
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This template is meant to be a guide for Nebraska Career Education Teachers in the Business, Marketing, and Management Career Field when creating digital online lessons. Headings and/or topics not included in the lesson plan should be marked N/A.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and health sciences educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Short Description: Medical Terminology is an OER that focuses on breaking down medical terms into their word parts, pronouncing medical terms, and learning the meaning of medical terms. This resource is targeted for health services students in the first year of their college programs. Long Description: Medical Terminology is an OER that focuses on breaking down medical terms into their word parts, pronouncing medical terms, and learning the meaning of medical terms. This resource is targeted for health services students in the first year of their college programs. Word Count: 84093 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)
Material Type: Textbook
Students will use assessments on the Nebraska Career Connections website to determine career interests, values, and career confidence. Then they reflect on their results. Students are divided into teams of two based on their interests and given time to research health career information as outlined in the HOSA Health Career Display event guidelines. Students complete the HOSA Health Career Display board and give a formal presentation to their class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
The students will watch a video on the structure of the circulatory system, then they will observe their heart rates and investigate how carrying extra weight affects their heart rate.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The students will investigate the muscular system by observing and comparing slides of muscles, by observing changes in their arm muscles and by observing their respiration and pulse rate during sitting, walking and running.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Pulse rate can be influenced by many things. In this lab, you will determine what effect holding your breath and exercising have on your pulse rate.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
To gain an understanding of how the muscular system is related to the respiratory system, and to investigate how muscular activity affects carbon dioxide production.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The students will expand their knowledge of the respiratory system by measuring their respiration rate and their lung capacity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The students will investigate several different types of stimuli (including reflexes).. This activity will help the students to gain a better understanding of how the nervous system functions.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The students will investigate how muscle fatigue can affect muscle performance of their index finger.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a unit plan covering the history of the surgery. It is designed to take about 35 days (50-minute class periods). This unit is based on the book, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris. For each of the chapters, vocab activities, pre-reading activities, and reflection questions have been created. A final project is included at the end of the unit. To grade this unit, the book is chunked into Portfolios (Prologue to Chapter 4, Chapters 5-8, Chapter 9 to Epilogue), which are designed to be the formative grades. Each of these Portfolios has a Portfolio Checksheet, which is a list of assignments that must be turned in for that unit. The Portfolios can be returned to the students and used on the final project. The final project is the summative grade for the unit. Quizzes could be added to this unit to increase the number of summative grades. To make this unit easier to facilitate, I would suggest purchasing the Audio Book, along with the hardcopies to help read to the class.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This unit plan is designed to spark students’ interest in critical thinking and scientific discovery. This unit is based on the book, “Survival of the Sickest: A medical maverick discovers why we need disease” by Jonathan Prince and Sharon Moalem. The book explores the evolution of different diseases throughout its eight chapters. The lesson plan is designed to take about 21 days (50-minute class periods). For this book, the class reads the Prologue together. Then, groups of students are assigned a chapter that they will teach to the class. Their teaching will include a presentation, activity, and facilitated discussion. (The unit plan helps the students learn how to do each of these tasks.) A final project is included at the end of the unit - a book review of the entire book. The summative grade for this unit is multi-part - the teaching assignment and the book review. Three quizzes are included, which would also be small summative grades. The notes packets and teaching planning sheets are all formative grades. A team member peer review is another part of the project.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
DNA contains instructions that are needed for our bodies to survive. DNA is needed for us to develop and reproduce. All body systems depend on DNA to function. In this activity, you will be extracting DNA from a piece of fruit. The purpose of this activity is to give you a first hand look at the long chained molecule of DNA. DNA relates to all of our body systems, and this lab will give you a better understanding of what DNA is.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Horsepower is a measure of how fast energy is exchanged. We usually think of car engines when we hear the word horsepower, however, we can also calculate how much horsepower a human produces. All of our body systems work together to produce and use energy. Depending on what activities we are doing, our energy needs can vary. In this activity, we will calculate your individual horsepower and compare your results to other students.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Chemical reactions play an important role in our digestive system. This activity will allow you to observe one of those reactions, known as a decomposition reaction. Decomposition is a reaction that breaks down a complex substance into simpler substances. You will be using the enzyme amylase to break down a starch into a simple sugar. This lab will simulate what is happening in your mouth when your saliva (which contains the enzyme amylase) begins to break down the complex carbohydrate starch.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
To investigate the movement of water into and out of a polymer. Gummy Bears are made of gelatin and sugar. Gelatin is a polymer that forms large three-dimensional matrices which give structural support to jellies and jams, and a lot of other things you use every day. This process will simulate what happens in your body cells.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Tissues are groups of cells working together. A specific tissue has similar cells which perform a particular function. In this activity we will look at various types of tissue to see how structure is related to function. You will be researching several different types of tissues. For each tissue you will include a description/picture/drawing, list at least one function and list at least one place it is found in the human body. You may use the following charts, or you may record your information in another format of your own design (google slides, etc.). You may use the internet or resource books to help you find the information.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
