Unit #1-- Learning Goals and Standards

Overview

Students will:

• • Explore the emergence and impact of communicable diseases on society

  • Investigate the role of microorganisms in causing disease.

  • Study the impact of a public health infrastructure, along with medical and pharmaceutical advances, on the evolution of microorganisms. (Catch the fever)

Introduction to Digital Technology: (Adapted from CAPACiTY Units 1&2)

• Major Course Sections

• Narrative Website Design Challenge

  • • Internet Research

    • Create Power Point presentations.

    • Develop websites with introduction to HTML and CSS

    • Explore computer system, network, and Internet basics

• Standards covered

• • IDT-1: Demonstrate employability skills required by business and industry.

  • IDT-2: Explore, research, and present findings on positions and career paths in technology and the impact of technology on chosen career area.

  • IDT-3: Demonstrate effective professional communication skills (oral, written, and digital) and practices that enable positive customer relationships.

  • IDT-5: Understand, communicate, and adapt to a digital world.

  • IDT-6: Explore and explain the basic components of computer networks.

  • IDT-8: Create and organize webpages through the use of a variety of web programming design tools.

Introduction to Health Sciences: The Cause and Prevention of Disease

• Standards covered

  • IHS-2: Demonstrate standard safety practices for all classroom, laboratory and field experiences. Understand the existing and potential hazards to clients, co-workers, and self, and prevent injury or illness through safe work practices by following current health and safety policies.

  • IHS-4: Develop a Career Plan

  • IHS-8: Practice preventive health behaviors personally and professionally.

  • IHS-9: Analyze different types of microorganisms and their defining characteristics to reduce the risk of infection or illness. Demonstrate physicochemical methods and the use of PPE in preventing and controlling the spread of microbial growth.

Foundations of Engineering and Technology: The Engineering of Public Health

• Standards covered

  • FET-2—Develop an understanding of engineering and technology and describe the principal fields of engineering specializations and identify associated career tracks.

  • FET-3—Identify the history of technology and engineering and its impact on society in the past, present, and future.

  • FET-4: Demonstrate and follow safety, health, and environmental standards related to the STEM workplace.

  • FET-6: Apply fundamental principles of the engineering design process.

  • FET-8: Students design a solution to an engineering problem applying math and science principles.