PREPARE TEACHERS
Implement demonstration projects in a variety of school and non-school venues
List of possible venues
- Regular middle school course
- Regular high school course
- Units integrated into science classes
- Units integrated into health classes
- Units integrated into mathematics classes
- After-school programs
- Home schooling
- Competitions
- Museum programs
- Web-based interactive programs
- Weekend/Summer programs
- University-based programs
- Advanced Placement (AP) course
- Youth media
- National Health Museum in Washington, DC - currently a website
EXAMPLES
Units integrated into science classes
The Scientific Method - What You Don't Teach in High School
Claire Kennedy, Englewood Academy, Englewood, NJ
See Movement Newsletter Article--Page 1
Contact Email: ckennedy@epsd.org
Freshman Biology + Senior Statistics = The Epidemiology of Sleep Deprivation
Jeff Killmer, Chair, Mathematics Department, Cary Academy, Cary, NC
See Movement Newsletter Article--Page 2
After-School Epi Club - Public Health Club at CJR #9
Lynn Tarant, Charles J. Riley Public School 9, Paterson, NJ
See Movement Newsletter Article--Page 4
Contact Email: ltarant@optonline.net
Tulsa - Epidemiology and Technology
Mary Phillips, Associate Professor of Biology, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
See Movement Newsletter Article--Page 5
Contact Email: mphillips@tulsacc.edu
Adaptation of Detectives in the Classroom curriculum to a six-week “mini-elective” for 8th graders in South Haven MI
Contact Email: Cheri Stein - Cstein@shps.org
See Movement News October 2006
Collaboration between the UIC SPH and Chicago Public Schools to teach epidemiology to 8th graders as part of preparation for public health and health career
Contact Email: Dorothy Washington-Calvin - dwashi5@uic.edu
See Movement News October 2006
"Real-time infectious disease outbreak simulations" - Exercises for grades 6-12 classrooms in Winnepeg, Canada.
Contact Email: Brian Szklarczyk - brian@nml.ca
"Detectives in the Classroom" - An epidemiology curriculum pilot-tested in Paterson and Montclair NJ and field-tested in Paterson NJ middle schools.
Contact Email: Mark Kaelin - kaelinm@mail.montclair.edu
Contact Email: Wendy Huebner - wwhuebner@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.montclair.edu/detectives
After School Programs
Guest lecture at a high school epidemiology club in Baton Rouge LA
Contact Email: Cheryl Broussard Cheryl.S.Broussard@uth.tmc.edu
See Movement News October 2006
Home Schooling
Epidemiology for Homeschoolers
Sarah Mahmoud, Homeschooling Student, Clonlara School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
See Movement Newsletter Article--Page 1
Homeschooling Workshop for parents and their children held in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Contact Email: Mark Kaelin - kaelinm@mail.montclair.edu
See Movement News June 2006
Competitions
Science Olympiad - State and national competitions for middle and high school students.
Contact Email: Ralph Cordell - rzc4@cdc.gov
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/EXCITE/olympiad.htm
"YES" - Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) annual competition. Finals held in Washington DC in April 2006.
Contact Email: yes@collegeboard.org
Website: http://www.collegeboard.com/yes
See Movement News June 2006
Web-based programs
"EXCITE" - CDC website for students and teachers, widely utilized.
Contact Email: Ralph Cordell - rzc4@cdc.gov
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/excite
YES Teaching Modules - Downloadable instructional units for teachers in
Grades 9 - 12.
Contact Email: Mark Kaelin - kaelinm@mail.montclair.edu
Contact Email: Wendy Huebner - wwhuebner@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.montclair.edu/detectives/YES
Weekend/summer programs
CDC summer student interns - Office of Minority Health program.
Contact Email: OMH@cdc.gov
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Highlights/2005/HSept205.htm
University-based programs
Epidemiology Education Partnership - Students and teachers from several New Jersey high schools attend a Montclair State University course entitled "The Science of Public Health--Epidemiology."
Contact Email: Mark Kaelin - kaelinm@mail.montclair.edu
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