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HOTT Futures
a health careers curriculum
  • Designed for middle school, however, could easily be used as early as 4th grade and through 12th grade.
 
  • Offers a curriculum presented by healthcare providers in cooperation with their local middle schools. The health-related lessons are designed to be presented over two 50-minute class periods.
 
  • Informs students about the opportunities in the healthcare industry while meeting the standards of the health curriculum.
 
  • Forms a partnership between the school and the local healthcare facility.
 
  • Provides an opportunity to learn about careers in healthcare from experts in the field.
 
Day 1 - Mock Car Accident

Day one of the curriculum features a mock car accident. When the students enter the room they are informed about the accident and told the patient is being brought to their hospital.   The students are placed in seven different hospital departments which represent 21 different careers in healthcare. For each career, there is the following information:

 

  • Duties performed
  • Education/Training required
  • SD average hourly wage
  • "Prop" used in that career
Day 2 - GSI: Germ Scene Identification

 

Day two emphasizes the spread of epidemic diseases with the "Typhoid Mary" activity.  In the activity, students exchange solutions (that could represent bodily fluids) with others in the class.

 

  • A pathogen in one student's original solution is passed to other students to simulate the spread of an epidemic disease.

  • After exchanging solutions with others in the class, everyone is 'tested' to see who is now carrying the disease.

  • After recording who is infected, the class traces the disease back to the original carrier.

 

Click here to see how HOTT Futures curriculum meets South Dakota Grades 6-8 Health Education Standards/Indicators.

 

Click here to see how to obtain HOTT Futures kits.

 

Click here to download the HOTT Futures Brochure.

8/20/12