Health and Biomedical Science for a Diverse Community, *

描述（由申请人提供）： 奥克兰儿童医院研究所（CHORI）与健康馆（一个动手的健康博物馆）合作，提出了一个为期三年的第一阶段SEPA项目，题为“多样化社区的健康和生物医学科学”。“该项目需要为低社会经济环境中的四年级和五年级学生开发一种新颖的互动式生物医学科学课程。作为课程的补充，将开发一个关于健康的社会和遗传因素的实践展览，以加强学生和家庭的学习。课程和展览将与来自加州奥克兰两所小学的学生进行试点测试。该课程将专门针对哮喘、肥胖、糖尿病和心脏病等少数民族健康问题，将包括四年级的四个五课教学单元和五年级的四个五课教学单元。除了课堂活动外，该项目还将包括教师讲习班、家庭健康和生物医学科学之夜、健康大厅实地考察以及每年一度的家庭健康和生物医学科学节。该项目将涉及临床和基础科学调查人员，患者和家庭，以及高中和大学生。它将利用来自奥克兰联合学区的教师和健康教育工作者、旧金山弗朗西斯科探索馆和伯克利劳伦斯科学馆的SEPA项目负责人、旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学和伯克利加州大学的教师以及LeapFrog公司的员工的才能，一家位于加州埃默里维尔的公司，生产交互式教育产品。该项目的最终目标是使科学对来自不同种族、低社会经济环境的儿童具有趣味性和相关性，帮助他们及其父母了解科学与健康之间的关系，培养他们对科学的兴趣，使他们能够考虑未来与生物医学科学有关的职业机会。所有项目活动都将接受前端、形成性和总结性评价。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), in collaboration with the Hall of Health, a hands-on health museum, proposes a three-year Phase I SEPA project entitled "Health and Biomedical Science for a Diverse Community." The project entails development of a novel, interactive biomedical science curriculum for 4th and 5th grade students in low socioeconomic environments. Complementary to the curriculum, a hands-on exhibit on social and genetic factors in health will be developed to enhance learning by students and families. The curriculum and exhibit will be pilot tested with students from two elementary schools in Oakland, California. The curriculum--which will specifically address minority health issues such as asthma, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease--will include four five-lesson instructional units for 4th grade, and four five-lesson instructional units for 5th grade. In addition to classroom activities, the project will include workshops for teachers, family health and biomedical science nights, field trips to the Hall of Health, and an annual health and biomedical science festival for families. The project will involve clinical as well as basic science investigators, patients and families, and high school and college students. It will draw on the talents of teachers and health educators from the Oakland Unified School District, directors of SEPA projects at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, faculty at San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley, and employees of LeapFrog, Inc., a company located in Emeryville, California, that makes interactive educational products. The ultimate goals of the project are to make science interesting and relevant to children who come from ethnically diverse, low socio-economic environments, to help them and their parents understand the relationship between science and health, and to foster their interest in science so that they may consider future opportunities in careers related to biomedical science. All project activities will undergo front-end, formative, and summative evaluation.