Students compare and contrast traditional Chinese and contemporary Western approaches to medicine. They bring a rational and scientific approach to the evaluation of alternative medicines. They study acupuncture from a Chinese and Western perspective.

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9th - 12th

Students identify plants used in the eighteenth century for medicinal purposes, and compare eighteenth-century remedies with remedies of the twentieth century.

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4th - 8th

Students brainstorm ideas about what makes a substance a "medicine" to determine their preconceptions about medicines. They evaluate whether certain substances should be defined as "medicines' and examine various systems of medicine.

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6th - 12th

Students discover medicine and its uses. They identify types of medicine and examine rules for taking medicine. Students determine people who are appropriate to help with the safe use of medicines.

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Kindergarten - 1st

Students explore the basic ideas and beliefs about medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries. They write a news account to be published in a "medical journal" developed by the class. Each "article" in the journal should be dated appropriately, and placed in chronological order. The Journal becomes a record of their collective research.

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9th - Higher Ed