Biochemistry: A Great Way to Simultaneously Teach Core Curriculum With Career Applications and Industry Credentials
Presented by Clelia McCrory, ESSDACK Grants/CTE, 402 S. 6 th , Sterling , KS 67579
E-mail: in case you want to access items provided on the CD being given to attending participants as well as receive the Word documents with the website links that contain the many hands-on STEM activities that I will refer to in this presentation!
I will be glad to e-mail you the documents that I will refer to as well as send you this organizing document that will help you understand how to use each of the documents back at your site!
Why Sterling Needed A STEM Pathway approach that connected to most students:
1. STEM Entities In the County needing more workers
( “ rapidly ” growing petrochemical company, local hospital, wind energy jobs being added within 25 miles, etc.)
2. Other CTE Pathways currently only connected to a few students due to being only elective classes and Kansas requires so many classes therefore crowding out a lot of options for electives.
3. Career applications blended with core academics would create more learning relevance for our students and therefore should make most students successful with the core classes once transformed!
Course sequence for Sterling ’s Biochemistry Pathway:
Introductory level :
Computer A pplications Grade 9
Environmental Science Grade 9
Technical level:
(taught together as a merged course)
Human Anatomy & Physiology Grade 10
AND Human Body Systems Grade 10
Applied Biochemistry Grade 11
(will be taught with Chemistry Grade 11)
Application level:
(some of my schools will offer Natural Resources Management) Grades 11 or 12
(all plan to offer) Project Management & Resource Scheduling Grade 12
(great course to work on project planning and time management skills)
Kansas has the state profiles for these CTE course titles on their state department of education website found at www.ksde.org then go to “career and technical education” and then go to “16 career clusters” and then scroll down to “Science Technology Engineering Math” and then scroll down to “Biochemistry”.
(Share Sterling STEM Partners and Resources file) This file will convey why this pathway was needed and the local resources that could help us make the pathway happen in a stronger way! We also put in place the Anatomy In Clay found at www.anatomyinclay.com as we integrated our Human Anatomy & Physiology AND our Human Body Systems courses and then are offering these two courses as a merged offering for 2013-2014.
(Share STEM-Students-STEM-Jobs-Executive Summary PDF
“Where are the STEM Students? What are their Career Interests? 2013-2013 Where are the STEM Jobs?” published by STEM Connector found at www.stemconnector.org )
( Share STEM 2013 Websites That Have Great Hands-On Activities for Applied Biochemistry file) This file also has all of the weblinks listed for the 3 scanned KidWind website files that I will share as well as the scanned STEM 2013 Environmental Science Other Resource Website s file also being shared.
Curtis Chandler and I from ESSDACK developed a course outline document that shows schools how to bring together the content from English 9 and Computer Applications so that the two classrooms can work in tandem using this planning document. (Share ELA Computer Applications Class file.)
(Share GREAT MATH AND SCIENCE STEM Activities List file)
The documents that I have shared with you should prepare your school to be able to offer the integrated pathway like we are offering at Sterling for 2013-2014. Please feel free to contact me with further questions!
Clelia McCrory, ESSDACK Grants/CTE Specialist
Cell: 620-694-9289