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Health Science: Back to Basics Lesson PlanHealth Science: Back to Basics Lesson Plan
Publisher
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
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Direct Instruction
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Technology
Scientific Equipment
Year
2012
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Health Science: Back to Basics

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This lesson focuses on unit conversion, proportions, ratios, exponents, and the metric system. Discuss measurement with your math class and demonstrate how to solve several health-science word problems. Give learners a chance to visit an interactive website to practice identifying metric measurements and give them conversion problems to solve on a worksheet. 

 

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CCSS: Designed

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medical math, math

Pros

  • Straightforward and user-friendly teacher notes
  • Comprehensive assessment provided

Cons

  • Over 80 Common Core standards are said to be touched upon in this lesson, but it would not be effective to address so many in such a short lesson

Common Core

6.RP.A.1 6.RP.A.2 6.RP.A.3.a 6.NS.B.2 6.NS.B.3 6.EE.A.1 6.EE.A.2.a 6.EE.A.3 6.G.A.1 6.G.A.2 6.G.A.3 6.G.A.4 6.SP.B.5.a 7.RP.A.1 7.RP.A.2.a 7.RP.A.3 7.NS.A.1.a 7.EE.A.1 7.EE.A.2 7.EE.B.3 7.G.A.1 7.G.B.4 7.G.B.5 7.G.B.6 7.SP.A.2 7.SP.B.3 7.SP.B.4 8.EE.A.1 8.EE.A.2 8.EE.A.3 8.F.A.3 8.SP.A.3 8.SP.A.4 HSN-RN.B.3 HSN-Q.A.1 HSN-Q.A.2 HSN-Q.A.3 HSA-APR.A.1 HSA-APR.D.7 HSA-CED.A.4 HSA-REI.A.1 HSA-REI.A.2 HSF-BF.B.5 HSF-LE.A.2 HSF-LE.A.3 HSG-CO.A.5 HSG-CO.C.9 HSG-CO.D.12 HSG-CO.D.13 HSG-GPE.B.7 HSG-GMD.A.1 HSG-MG.A.3 HSS-ID.A.1 HSS-ID.B.5 HSS-ID.B.6.a HSS-IC.A.1 HSS-IC.A.2 HSS-IC.B.3 HSS-IC.B.4 HSS-IC.B.5 HSS-IC.B.6 HSS-CP.A.1 HSS-CP.A.2 HSS-CP.A.4 HSS-CP.A.5 HSS-CP.B.6 HSS-CP.B.7 HSS-CP.B.9 HSS-MD.A.1 HSS-MD.A.2 HSS-MD.A.3 HSS-MD.A.4 HSS-MD.B.5.a HSS-MD.B.6 HSS-MD.B.7 MP1 MP2 MP3 MP4 MP5 MP6 MP7 MP8

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