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Workshop Detail: Monday, July 20, 2009
(3-6): Regenerative Medicine – The Future of Health
presented by
Brinley Kantorski, Duquesne University, Alison Pogue, Duquesne University
Curriculum Developed by Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education – Duquesne University
Teaching health literacy and science literacy starts in the lower grades by cultivating a child’s wonder and strengthening their understanding of biological systems. Our project strives to let children build both a vocabulary as well as mental images of biological systems through the use of multimedia video animation. Enrichment is achieved by priming the students prior to viewing the video, and following up the video with a range of additional classroom activities.
The Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education at Duquesne University has created educational materials to support the integration into classroom curriculums of science education movies on topics of tissue engineering. The materials were made for the classroom, for webquests and for outdoor activities .
The activities are broken out into workbooks that are designed for a fourth-grade audience, but the activities are suitable and adaptable for students in third to sixth grade (Pennsylvania State Standards). Separate materials are designed for both teacher enrichment and for student use. Versions of the booklets are available for English as a Second Language (ESL).
In the workshop, we will view short educational movies such as, TISSUE ENGINEERING FOR LIFE, DR. ALLEVABLE’S UNBELIEVABLE LABORATORY, REGENEROBOT & THE ROBOT SCIENCE FAIR and the latest film, OUR CELLS, OURSELVES. Educational topics will focus on heart, bone, spine and the immune system. Teaching activities will include:
HEART ACTIVITY I: PUMPING. Students will explore a demonstration of the heat’s pumping action with the use of a bucket of water and their hands.
HEART ACTIVITY 2: CHOLESTEROL’S CLOGGING CAPER. Using paper towel rolls and clay to create a visual representation of how cholesterol builds up inside the artery walls.
BONE ACTIVITY 1: BUILDING BIG BONES. Students will work to investigate bone structure.
BONE ACTIVITY 2: DOCTOR, DOCTOR! Create a patient file for a broken bone.
BONE ACTIVITY 3: SALT DOUGH SKELETONS. Students will create models of a skeleton.
SPINAL CORD ACTIVITY 1: SPECIAL SPOOL SPINAL CORDS. Students will build, explore and identify different parts of the spinal cord with empty spools and heavy yarn.
SPINAL CORD ACTIVITY 2: SPINAL COLUMN CONCENTRATION. Students will be introduced to spinal cord key terms and work to play the SPINAL CORD CONCENTRATION GAME.
We will also explore the classroom use of a PC based video game on the immune system and a prototype board game.
Dr. John Archie Pollock is director of the Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education, a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources (NIH). Associate Professor of biology at Duquesne University, John holds additional faculty appointments at Carnegie Mellon University's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Entertainment Technology Center. John has also served as Principal Scientist for the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Inc. (www.ptei.org). John is an educator who has taught courses in a wide range of disciplines including math, physics, ethics, philosophy, neuroscience, and general biology. His outreach teaching has included working with high school and middle school biology. Currently, he participates in weekly activities with young learners (4 -7 year olds) and 5th - 7th graders. As a scientist, John is a principal investigator directing research that explores the development of the nervous system. He received his BS and MS in Physics, and PhD in biophysics, from Syracuse University. He also received post-doctoral training at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Honors and awards include: Winters Foundation Research Award, James A. Shannon Director's Award (National Institutes of Health), Basil O'Connor Research Award from the March of Dimes Foundation, Visiting Scholar Award from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia, a Grass Foundation Traveling Lecturer for the Society for Neuroscience and two Science Education Partnership Awards from the National Center for Research Resources (NIH).
For More Information, Please visit www.sepa.duq.edu.
Summer Institute, a component of the MIDAS Project, is supported by a