Heidi A. Everett
Implementing District Standards
There are two key standards that will be covered in this exploration of the five senses and the central nervous system.
The New Haven district requires that students are able to answer the question of how science and technology in society affect the quality of life that we currently benefit from. The unit will be infused with images provided from a variety of biotechnological sources that health sciences rely on in their scientific inquiry of maintaining human health. The students will compare the simplistic two-dimensional hand drawn images to the sophisticated three-dimensional computer generated images of human internal anatomy.
The students will be able to come to conclusions as to how technological advances have increased the longevity of human life and in turn increased the size of human populations over the past century. The unit will also have a significant e-learning component that will allow the students to use technology (computer software programs, web sites) that provide the general public and health science careers with a three-dimensional interactive study of anatomy.
The district standard regarding the scientific inquiry will be covered in this unit as the students determine ways in which injury and disease have been and are continually being used in the advancement of medicine. The students will read a few case studies dealing with the injury and disease of various sense organs and record observations, ask questions regarding to the case study. They will then develop a hypothesis as to what anatomy has been damaged and determine how they could possibly develop an experiment to test their hypothesis of what anatomy is damaged.
The other district standard that will be covered concerns the students' ability to describe how natural selection has taken place in increasing an organism's ability to survive in their environment based on the adaptations in their structure and behavior. The students will analyze their five senses and make conclusions as to how the physiology and anatomy of the central nervous system combined with the five senses provides the human species with increased chances of survival.
