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all right. hello, everyone. and welcome to today's session of nlm's online playground, k-12 science and health education resources. what i want to make clear right away is that today's session is really just to give you a nice
overview and show you the different types of resources that the national library of medicine provides for k-12 educators. one of the things that i will say is that we will not be able to cover all of the resources in the one-hour period.
so i have selected certain ones that i will go over, spanning a variety of topic areas, and then you have access to the website for the class, which does provide you with the full set of slides so that you can see some of the other resources that i did not get to cover today.
so forgive me for not being able to cover everything, but i did try to pick and choose some of the ones that i thought were most relevant and exciting so that you can begin to explore nlm's online playground as i call it. if you have questions at any
time, please do feel free to type those questions into the chat box. i will look there as will my lovely assistant hannah, our web tech person here today, and so we will make sure that we get your questions answered before we end today's call.
so the first thing is to say that the resources that we're going to cover today do come from the national library of medicine, the world's largest biomedical library. it's a little-known fact the national library of medicine produces freely available and
huge variety of resources specifically for k-12 populations. and so that's what we want to go over today so you are aware of these wonderful materials and also because we have individuals from all over the u.s., please do note that you do have a
regional medical library called the national network of libraries of medicine, there are eight regions scattered across the united states, at health sciences libraries. and these serve as your connection points so that if you would like additional training,
information on resources for particular target populations outside of k-12, this is where you would go in order to connect with a coordinator that would be able to assist you. so do find out where your regional medical library is, if you're not familiar.
and today what will i want to do is cover some of the resources from k-12 and just to state that there are a variety of topics, so in addition to what you see on the screen there are also things like there are games and we'll look at some of those. there are health information
tutorials. there are resources for hiv and aids, as well as lesson plans, science project ideas, suggested reading lists and some of our resources are also available in spanish. so there's a lot going on and we will begin with some information
on general health and drug information. so, this is going to be a combination of different websites, as well as online exhibitions that we will cover throughout today's session. and as we learn about the different types you'll hear me
say online exhibition versus a website, and once we look at a few it will become a little bit more clear as to what the difference is. but the first resource that i really want to pay attention to today is medline plus. i'm hoping that everyone is
familiar with medline plus. medline plus is the national library of medicine's consumer health resource. and it is a resource that has about a thousand health-- almost a thousand health topics, with information on drugs and supplements and other materials
are available in here. you can find videos, you can find health news, and medical encyclopedia, just a wide range of resources that are available. one of the things to look at here in the main section here if you click on health topics, then you can see that it's broken
down into these large groups so you can see body locations and systems, so if you're teaching in health and science, and you're focusing on a particular system, say you're studying the circulatory system, so you could go and look at the blood, heart and circulation section in order
to find information that is relevant for that particular thing. on the other hand, if you're working specifically on having students look at things that were focused on women's health you could look under the demographic group and find
material on women. so really this is a good place to go to kind of get a broad range of different types of things that are in medline plus, around the different health topic pages that are of importance to you. and i will have you note if you
look in the health and wellness section, that there is a section on disasters, and safety issues, and social/family issues, so this is to say that this is more than just health and looking at specific diseases and conditions. so there's more than just asthma
and diabetes, et cetera. you will also find things on disaster wellness, you will also find things on ergonomics. you will find things on environmental health. so if you're working with students on science projects, and you want to do something
about air pollution, ozone, those types of topics are also included in health topic pages, so do look at medline plus more holistically when you begin to think about where to find appropriate health information. now, the second main section that i want to point out is the
drugs, herbs and supplements section where you can locate information on prescription and over the counter medications, and so here you'll find information like are there any dietary restrictions, what is the typical dosage, are there precautions or side effects, how
do you store this medication? you can have students browse dietary supplement and herbal remedies to learn about drug interactions. people are prone to using herbs and supplements but if you want to find out if there's scientific evidence to prove
that these herbs and supplements work for particular conditions, this is a good place to go to find that type of information. additionally, think about today's society and the current increase in substance abuse. substance misuse is a major factor affecting populations
across the u.s. if you can begin to talk to adolescents in communities about substance misuse and begin interventions early, or if you're simply studying drug interactions or the effectiveness of herbs and supplements, this would
definitely be a useful section for your work. then the third main section that has some really good information, i like this one because it's more of the interactive piece. this is a section where you can find all of those types much
things that you can add to your curriculum, to give students some media or just something that's more interactive and uses online tools. so this is where you can find interactive health games, to provide students with a fun way to learn about health topics, so
say you were talking about diseases and conditions. you could go in and you could click on games, on this section, and there's actually a game from the american lung association called lungtropolis that teaches children about asthma, and the effects of asthma, and this is a
nice way to do a game that gives you some information. another thing is you may always look for different types of quiz questions, or icebreaker questions you may want to use. so you can always look at the health check tools and see what quizzes and questionnaires that
different associations have already created on different health topics and you can then utilize those in your classroom. they work well when you think about trying to put together things like jeopardy games or different times of discussion questions to get people in your
class thinking about different topics that you're working on, and so instead of reinventing the wheel you can see what's available here and then use those as a way to supplement your existing curricula. and then i'd like to point out that there's a health news
section within medline plus. so if you're thinking about teaching students about health news, this is a great place to go. the health news section gets information from healthday and you can find recent press announcements from major medical
organizations, so this is where this particular article focuses on looking at how angry moms cause children to not get as better health care as they could because of the emotional tension that exists between them as the angry parents and the medical staff.
and so this is a nice place to go to find different articles that may be somewhat controversial where you could even engage students in debates about whether they think this is true or if they have ever had situations that were similar, and there are topics that span
different types of populations and different issues. what's great is you can see on the right-hand side it always links to related medline health topic pages, so once you share an article with someone, say you bring this up in your classroom, you can have students look at
the related medline plus health topic pages to further the discussion and continue their learning beyond just the article that you may have looked at. so, i spent quite a bit of time on medline plus because there's so much in there. there's things on bullying.
as we know, every school has the anti-bullying campaigns, has things on drugs and young people, teen development, food labeling, winter weather emergency, safety, lice, almost a thousand health topics. students with use medline plus as a starting point when
conducting research on health topics, including mental health and pets. there's a page with information on that. you'll find things on germs, hygiene, just a wide array of topics. i encourage you to explore and
see what's in here and see which health topic pages will map well to your particular curriculum. the next resource i want to show you is pubmed. and some of you may have used pubmed as you did your research in college. this is something that you can
really introduce with high school students, especially if you have any that are taking advanced placement health and science courses. also, you see the green arrow there on the left-hand side. just to point out that there are tutorials on how to use
pubmed. in addition, you'll find that many of the regional medical libraries do teach classes on pubmed, so if you want some additional information, you can sign up, take those classes as well as go through the tutorials so you can refer students to the
tutorials to learn how to use this particular resource. as someone who worked in academia, and often did first-year experience courses with health sciences students, it was always lovely when there was that one or two or three students who were in a class,
when we showed them pubmed to do their research, they said hey, i used that in high school. it's good to have the upper hand. if you're working with high school students i encourage you to teach them how to use this particular resource because it
will serve them well when they begin doing medical research, should they choose that for a future major in university setting. and then what may be of interest to you is, you know, when you're in pubmed, students can search for articles and look for
different topics. however, you may not have access to all of the information that's in there. so pubmed central is actually the digital archive of the different biomedical and life sciences journal literature for the national institutes of
health. so publishers, voluntarily put information in pubmed central, and there are particular criteria. however, this is where you can find full texts of articles at no cost. so you may want to have students
search within pubmed central to see if they can locate an article that they can actually see the entire piece, especially if you're doing things around scientific research and teaching them about the different parts of an article. you can pull ones out so they
can have full access. this is a good place to begin to have them practice searching in pubmed, and begin to do that dissecting of the parts of a published research article. so pubmed central is where you can get the full text for not all articles in pubmed
but those that have been deposited in this particular repository. so, this resource is aids info. the reason why i show this one is that there are 33 states and the district of columbia that require students to receive instruction about hiv and aids.
and this particular resource has some really cool things that you can use, and that includes infographics that really make hiv-related concepts easy to understand. so that's nice to always have some type of visual clue that you can use with folks.
and there's also some educational materials which include factsheets, there's a medical dictionary of hiv-related terms, and then there's additional images and web pages that highlight things like national hiv awareness day, and so this is where you can go
to find information that might be useful if you know that you're in one of those 33 states that requires that you do provide instruction about hiv and aids. and then because we're in the school setting, for most or even if you're in a public library
setting or even health sciences library, i want to point out that there are quite a few drug information resources from the national library of medicine. but i am pointing out pillbox specifically this time because this one was developed in order to help identify unknown pills.
so any oral solid dosage medication form, and what it does is it focuses on having you put in the parameters of the particular pill so the appearance like what's the size, what's the shape, what's the imprint, is there a scoring, and then when there are available--
there are images of different pills so you can identify. if you work in a school setting and you have a school nurse who has folks bringing them pills that they just can't identify or want to know about, they will love you if you share this resource.
it's a great way to be able to demystify the random pills that may show up in a school and you find out, oh, that's just tylenol, it's okay. so it's not to say that there's always something wrong, but it is a nice quick way to be able to identify particular pills.
and then this here is the brochure for the different drug information resources in nlm. it was just recently revised this month. and so if you do have an older version, i suggest that you go to the url and take a look at this newer one.
and you'll see that it has the different sites, whether you want to do mobile resources, if you're looking for the drug label databases, basic drug information, or even our portals which link across different nlm databases, then this will give you a listing of all of the
different ones that are available. are there any questions about the general and drug information resources before i continue? please feel free to chat in the so everyone will get a copy-- the presentation is actually available on the class website,
and i will be sure to get that link into the chat box for you all before we leave today. so, yes, you will have access. and remember, this slide set is actually condensed. you will have access to the full class slides and that way you can see other resources that i
will not be able to cover today. you're welcome. so know i want to focus on some of the career based resources. some. things i've-- some of the things i've chosen based on timing. next month just two days from
now we begin in february, which is african-american history month, and then in march is women's history month, which is why i'm showing you this one. that gives you time to really take a look at these resources and decide if this particular resource is something that you
might want to use in march for women's history month. so this is one of the nlm online exhibitions. and it focuses on looking at women, and celebrating american women physicians, and their contributions to medicine. so if you are thinking about
doing something a little bit different or want to share a resource that focuses on careers, this is an exceptional resource to be able to use, and it talks about how physicians have helped to improve our quality of life, but women. so there are sections that talk
about resources, so learn about the different steps you can take to join the field of medicine. there are lesson plans targeted for k-12 to understand things like physiology of the body and the field of medicine. and there are also some suggested reading lists included
in here. so when you go into the resources or activity section, you will find the information and you can see at the bottom right-hand side of the screen where it says resources, that's where you can go to career medicine section, teachers can
link into lesson plans, and then you can also see the extensive list of bibliography which includes both books and videos. one thing to note, these exhibitions are created but then more information is added because you can see that there's a new book that they have
included, talking about women physicians and the cultures of medicine. so even if you've looked at the resources before, some of these exhibitions, do take a look back because sometimes they will add new information as it becomes available to help enhance the
learning of your students. the next resource i want to talk about is called haz-map. haz-map focuses on health and safety, and it's designed particularly for consumers who are looking for information on like adverse effect of workplace exposure to chemical and
biological agents. if you're working with students doing anything around chemicals and biological agents, even fourth or fifth graders, this is a fun way to talk about hazardous jobs and diseases and symptoms around careers. when i was student teaching,
many years ago, we would ask like what is your career goal, what do you want to do? we were teaching science and they said, i don't need science for my future career, i actually plan to be a hairdresser. and then we have to explain, well, you know, do you plan on
coloring people's hair or doing dye? of course, people love to get their hair dyed. we said, well, you realize that involves science, chemicals are involved. this is one of those ways you could reinforce the idea of that
career that people just assume that i don't need science, i just need to know how to do a specific skill set, like actually you do. you can search for jobs by the type of job. you can search within a major job category like arts and
media, or construction, or food processing, or you can actually go through an alphabetical list. so this is a really cool way for even middle and high school students to create a list of top five career choices. and then you can ask them, do you think that you will have to
have knowledge of hazardous chemicals in those career choices? once they have the list, they can search haz-map and find that. if you teach biology or chemistry or some other science where you talk about chemicals,
you can have students search haz-map by the hazardous agent, by type or agent alphabetically, and then find information on chemical formulas, vapor pressure and different diseases associated with the chemical. so you can use it kind of in reverse.
so it is a nice way to engage students in careers but also expose them to things around science and chemistry and this next resource that i want to show you is actually one of our newest online exhibitions. and many of you may know that physician assistants are a
growing field, just like nurse practitioners. and so this particular exhibition focuses on talking about how the profession developed as a solution to meet the social and health care needs during the mid-20th century and how it continues to grow.
and it has stories of different p.a.s from different communities, all over the world, on the front line of different types of health crises we've experienced. think about the ebola epidemic. you'll find information on health care providers that
worked with that particular condition. and then it also has information about the different practices that p.a.s do like working as part of a team, working with doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in these diverse communities to treat
patients by addressing these different health care shortages. so this is a good place to go and it does have a lesson plan for grades 6-8 and then another lesson plan for grades 9-12 and both lesson plans do focus on health education, so they learn about p.a.s, physician
assistants, what it is they do and there are videos, biographies, it teaches them about what is a p.a. and what do they do. then for high school students, it takes it a step further where they actually get to work in small groups and research and
gather information from the website about the profession's employment outlook, certification and share in poster sessions. careers focus on those around health professionals. the online exhibitions? or anything to do with the
career section of today's session? okay. so, the next section which is really fun is environmental health and chemistry. i'm really going to focus more heavily on the environmental health piece today.
and i'm going to start off with those of you who work with little ones. this is toxmystery, toxmystery is a fun engaging resource for students between the ages of 7-10. and it really focuses on talking about the potential
environmental hazards that exist in a house. so things that young children may encounter in their daily lives. it teaches about how to recognize the different chemicals and why we should avoid them.
so they follow toxie the cat through the house. they play a game, like detectives, they have to catch the hazard. they follow clues and collect paw prints in order to find all the hazards and learn about what they are and why they should be
avoided. there are lesson plans included there's even one on what is an acid, and this resource does translate into spanish with a simple click, espaã‘ol at the top, you can translate into it's a good thing you can do, partner with spanish language
teachers and maybe do something spanish and science-y if you're in a school that does integration, a simple toggle between english and spanish versions. it might make for an interesting interdisciplinary partnership, just something to think about.
and then there's also some parent resources so you would be able to print out and send home information about what the students had learned in class. so this is a great resource for your little-- younger students. and then for your middle school, the next range up is the
environmental health student portal. and i will say that although it clearly states that it's for middle school students, educators have shared with me in the past they have used this with fifth and some fourth graders, and it has different
things focused on air pollution, chemicals, climate change and water pollution. and of course, we know these topics are often introduced in the younger grades, and so you can use this to supplement any existing materials that you may have, and it focuses on looking
at the connections that exist between the environment and the different things that humans do to the environment, and how those things that humans do actually affect our health. so what are the health outcomes based on, human behavior towards the environment.
the text in this resource is buried so there are some that are easy to read and advanced reading levels, a versatile tool to use with students that have different proficiency levels. and it uses different mediums, you've got articles, activities and videos.
there's even information on different experiments, so for those of you who are in settings where you can actually conduct experiments and have some tools, this is a great place to go to find some of those and just add a nice fun experiment to learning for your students
because we know that just listening or sitting and watching and lecturing like we're doing today is not always best and so you can add some nice interactivity. and the last resource in the beginning of this environmental suite is called tox town.
and tox town really focuses on looking at the environment and health concerns where we live, where we work, and where we play. and this resource i'm very excited about it, because it was just updated like weeks ago, and this new design has come out,
it's where you can go and find information on everyday locations where you might find toxic chemicals. so students can go into the town section and you see there's a school bus there. so they can go into the school, or the school bus, and see what
chemical hazards exist in that particular environment. if they are in a city they can go into a drug store and see what hazards exist. on the farm, the same. they can go into the silo, the animal pen, it gives you lovely background information on how
the environment impacts human health, and then it has some different internet resources on environmental health topics. and what's really cool about it is is when it describes the chemicals that are there, it gives them in these nice easy-to-understand non-technical
descriptions so that your students can really begin to understand and wrap their head around what those particular things are. it uses color, graphics, sound and animation, so it really does engage students and it is targeted for above elementary
school educators and the general public. and within here, you can go to the full educator section. there's actually an after-school club curriculum that's available to you. it focuses on things like the debate between water bottles
versus using reusable bottles. it has different lessons and activities that you can do. there's about five or six of them. and so that's something that you can focus on and it has the careers and environmental health section and also some
information on chemistry and toxicology. so a really robust and recently updated resource that i definitely encourage you to explore. anything? again, feel free to jump into the chat box and type in the
questions should you have it at any time. this next resource is called household products database. and what this does is it's really designed to help answer questions like what are the chemical ingredients and their percentage in specific types of
brands? let me give an example of how i've used this in the past. my previous positions i was a health sciences librarian at an academic institution but also worked with the teen groups in the public library that was connected.
and one of the things that's really cool was to have my teen youth group bring in the packaging for different household products that they use. so anything like deodorant, makeup for girls was always a big thing.
air freshener, cleaning supplies, arts and crafts things, or toner that they use in their printers at home, or even their pet food. so we would have them bring those things in, and then they could look and see what types of chemical ingredients exist and
if there are any acute or chronic effects of the chemical ingredients that are in specific brands. and then they could start to compare. say two people brought in toothpaste, they could compare the two brands and see, well, is
yours healthier than mine? or does yours have acute or chronic chemical things in it that will cause different effects or not? and it really got people thinking about the different types of brands that they use and which ones were more
environmentally or eco-friendly than others. so this is a cool way to do something around that for students, and engage them in dialogue about when you choose different products and finding out what's in them, especially with makeup.
the girls were always shocked to find out what was actually in the makeup they put on their face all the time. i found it amusing, them probably not so much. as i mentioned earlier, the also has a series of games that are available.
and so these games are in itunes, and a lot of schools have the ipad program. this is a good way to use that. these are free and accessible to assist students with grasping concepts like dna base pairing and the bohr model of atom and environmental conservation.
and these were actually designed in collaboration with a high school educator, and they work really well with biology and chemistry classrooms. so the third game is run4green that focuses on reinforcing concepts about environmental conservation and is just a nice
way to engage students in some type much extension activity. these are fun, especially around testing, or when you've got students who have extra time on their hands because they've finished the assignment in class but you want them to do something focused.
run4green is fun, nostalgic of the mario-style game. it has the characters running through, it's very similar to so these are really good games that you can use with students in grades 5-8 for base chase, run4green works with the environmental students health
portal i just showed you, so you can really look at trying to match some of the games and apps with the other resources that nlm provides and that you can so just some fun games that you can use and i encourage you to explore them. the environmental health
resources that i covered? if so, you know what to do in the chat box. so what i want to do now is go over some of the genetics stuff. the genetics resources are really good. the first one is genetics home reference.
and this is your nice basic introduction to the effects of genetic variations on human so this is a good supplemental tool to use with students, whether they are just getting started with genetics, or if you need a refresher to learn about human genetics or inherited
disorders. so this is a good way to look at like genetics by conditions, learning about genes, whether you do it by symbol or name groups or classifications. you can focus on 23 pairs of human chromosomes and mitochondrial dna.
there's also a glossary of medical and genetic definitions that you can use, and then it also has information that provides links into different organizations that do research around genetics, which is really cool. and when you think about where
medicine is going right now, this whole idea of precision medicine and the ways that they are trying to look at what types of things are affecting individuals' healths, it's more than just environment, it's location, looking at physical genetics and how that plays out
and trying to track people over time, this will be a cool way of more articles about that come out if you do something around health news and come into genetics, you can have students really begin to dig in, explore some of this stuff. the other thing is that in here
is included is the genetics home reference handbook, and what's really good is that there's a principal version with nice illustrations, but you can also take out and have students focus on just particular sections. so some of the popular sections of the handbook include like
what is dna, and what is gene mutation and how do mutations occur, and what kind of gene mutations are possible, and just basic questions like, you know, how many chromosomes do people have, and what are proteins and what do they do. so for those who teach these
types of topics you'll recognize these are the things that are some of the basic concepts that are sometimes difficult to grasp when genetics is new to you or you need a nice refresher. it's good place to go to get that by looking at the handbook within genetics home reference.
the other thing i suggest for those who work with high school students is gene-ed. and gene-ed was actually created in collaboration with the national human genome institute as well as national library of it's a very robust resource for high schools.
so grades 9-12. and you can explore different topics like epigenetics and inheritance, like looking at evolution, biostatistics, looking at dna, genes, chromosomes, but it takes it a level further and so there are nice supplement materials here
including labs and experiments. there's some really cool 3d images, there are illustrations from the national institute of health through the national human genome institute. so these are pages and resources that you can go to, such as a teacher's resource page, and the
labs and experiments, to highlight tools that you as educators may find useful. and it's really nice because it gives a really good look at the evolving field of genetics when it comes to careers. so when you do career research, if you are doing something on
that, this is something else that you can utilize for that. so if you do teach genetics, especially in the high school settings, i would definitely encourage you to refer to this particular resource. and then on a different note, this is a resource that is
really focused on genetics also but it does it with a little bit of a twist. so this is harry potter's world, renaissance science magic and medicine, and it is one of the online exhibitions. and what it does is it looks at the characters and creatures
that exist within harry potter, the literature, and it teaches genetics through that way. and so this one is really geared towards our grades 6-12. there's actually an english and a science lesson plan for middle school and high school which makes it a wonderful tool to be
able to use to collaborate across disciplines. and if you teach any advanced courses in high school, or you're in the higher education setting, there is a module for higher education so that you can engage students who may want some more challenging work and
still keep other students on task. so there are two online activities, they focus on teaching students the properties of the natural world around and the other where they can further develop critical thinking skills by looking at
different perspectives in regards to inequalities forced on creatures in the novels. it's that whole idea of survival of the fittest, right? how do different creatures adapt and survive based on their genetic makeup? so i would recommend if you want
to do something a little fun and do that interdisciplinary approach to science and literature, this is definitely one of the resources that you can use, and it really focuses on certain chapters and specific sections of the harry potter series books.
and you can-- it will tell you when you go to read the particular lesson plan that you're interested in. so hopefully somebody's excited about this because it's a really cool exhibit and it's a nice way to engage students through literature, something they have
all, if not been interested in, have at least heard of. so definitely fun, i would agree. the genetics resources that i just covered? i know i've gone over quite a bit. it's different when we teach
this class in person because i give you time to actually explore some of the resources and we engage in dialogue about how you might integrate it into your lesson plan so that individuals can share ideas and also teach me about how you would use these things in your
classroom setting because i'm no longer teaching. but i do want to just get you excited and just show you some of the resources that exist. so this is why i where i want to look at some of the other interdisciplinary resource, most being other online exhibitions.
what's great about them is because these exhibitions really provide opportunities for you to collaborate between health and science educators, with others two teach like english, history, social studies, even spanish language classes. so really think about how you
can extend beyond just your classroom but collaborate with other educators in your building. so this is one of the new ones. i think this is really cool. i really just explored this literally last week because it came out in december, and then
we were on winter break. and this one is fire&freedom, food&enslavement in early america, focusing on looking at the early colonial era, the chesapeake reach where settlers relied on indentured servants like african-american slaves for labor for knowledge and food
acquisition. europeans actually had suffered from malnutrition and just widespread illness because they didn't have the knowledge about the different foods and such that were in the area. colonists used human resources like the natural environment and
maritime trade to gain economic prosperity, but it was really through the labor of the slaves and fire&freedom focuses on life at george washington's mount vernon plantation. think about it. february23 is the birthday of george
washington so if you want to do something in collaboration with history or social studies teacher, this might be an exhibition that you still have a few weeks that you could take a look at and begin to adapt. so it's got a really large digital gallery of 18th
century materials on different food, botany, health and housekeeping, that all come from the national library of medicine's collection. and there are lesson plans and suggested reading lists. this one is great because there is a lesson plan for those of
you who work with the younger students, because i know a lot of what we've talked about is really for middle school and high school, but there is a lesson plan in here on health education specifically for grades 3-5. and the lesson uses an apple pie
recipe from a primary source, 1773 publication, the recipe of a well-known dessert that students are guided to consider how a dessert fits into a healthy balanced meal. so it connects to usda's my plate diagram. you never saw that coming, did
you? i know i didn't when i first looked through the lesson plan. i was like what, they connected that to myplate? that's awesome. there is a lesson plan for grades 9-12, which focuses on what stories do meals tell?
it's one that has a guided discussion on looking at meals during the 1700s, during the time of slavery, and it's really a good exploration of the idea that meals tell stories of not only places and season, but of people and the power dynamics that exist among them.
i recommend that you look into this particular exhibition. it's one of the newest ones and absolutely brilliant. so i chose this one as something to look at because this week is actually national drug awareness week for teens. and this particular exhibition,
pick your poison, intoxicating pleasures and medical prescriptions, really focuses on exploring different processes, problems and potentials that are inherent in technologies that use life. thinking about mind-altering drugs and how they have been
used throughout history of american medicine, and some are socially acceptable, and others not so much. and so it really talks about how some of them were-- some of these different drugs were outlawed because of their toxic and intoxicating
characteristics, and then it talks about the different classifications that have shifted over time in history, and how that will continue to change. and with the issue that we have with substance misuse, this is a good way to be able to talk to
youth about the pressures and peer pressures of alcohol and drug abuse. and so there is a grade 5-8 lesson that comes from the national institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism that talks about alcohol use among peers, and there's a lovely curriculum
that was developed out of the university of michigan. and that's called the cool spot, so there's really school stuff in there and kids links, topics like prescription drugs, steroid use, smoking and alcohol. and then for your high school, there's this lovely health
education history and social studies lesson that talks about drug use and abuse, both past and present. so it's a way to look at actual primary sources related to drug use from the 1800s, all the way through the early 1900s and so students begin to
research all the contemporary information on the same drugs and compare how they were used in the past and how they are used now, and how to discourage young people from using or abusing these particular types of drugs. so really something that is very
timely i would say, and something that you can use to help facilitate discussion because what's really good about it is that it takes the whole idea off of the individual students in the class, another one feels they can they are talking about me but gives a way
to open the dialogue in a safe place. because, like i said, we have 33 states and district of columbia required to do aids and hiv and particularly in new york where my daughter attends school in new york, and they actually as early as fourth grade began
talking about aids and hiv. and this is a way to do it with a different spin, surviving and thriving. it actually is based on a book that was written in 1987, for people with aids by people with aids, who insisted that there was no reason why anyone who had
aids had to die. and so the curator talks about the experience of people with hiv and aids and how there continues to be a political and medical fight against the stigma that's attached to this particular condition. and so it really begins looking
at hiv and aids as early as 1980s and explores the academics over the last 30 years. it focuses on advocating for facts and dispelling rumors, there's posters, students in fourth and fifth grade can be led in a discussion about the
posters and social stigma and fear of the disease, a great way to generate discussion and get kids thinking about things. there's reading lists which have materials as early as fourth grade, so for those with younger students, again, this is one of those exhibitions that you can
really begin to use and begin to have the discussions with your younger students. and then for 10th and 12th grade, there's a history and social studies lesson plan, and also a history, social studies and health education lesson plan, it really looks at the
different types of photos and slogans used by the aids coalition that protested against discrimination of people with hiv and aids since 1980s till now. so this is a good way to get students excited about historical cases of aids
activism and explore the online advocacy campaigns and explore these types of things. so i would encourage you to take a look at those, and see how you might integrate them into your particular learning modules. and then i believe the last-- well, second to last one,
actually there's three more that i'd like to talk about is this confronting violence improving women's lives, developed in the last six months. this one really focuses on the central role that nurses played in helping to combat domestic violence at a time where
violence against women was not considered a major health issue. so it's looking at the developments during the latter half of the 20th century, where nurses decided enough is enough. and they began to rally victims and to talk about how can we as
nursing professionals respond to their needs and work towards preventing domestic violence instead of treating it all the time. this has lessons plans, older students 7-12, some 10-12, more from 9-12. what's great is some of these
are literature and history and social studies based, so you can do them in english classes. and like the one i like to point out is about love is not abuse is the name of the lesson plan, and it uses literature to encourage critical thinking and get students engaged in a
discussion about teen dating abuse and healthy relationships. so a good way to talk about what does healthy relationship look like without actually pinpointing individuals but looking at it in a more holistic and overall experience. at a time where health care
reform is an issue that is in the news almost daily, this particular new online exhibition could not be more timely. so "for all the people, a century of citizen action in health care reform" really focuses on looking at how presidents and national leaders
and communities and workers and activists and health care professionals have made their voices heard about the debate on how to make quality health care available to all people. the lesson plans here really focus on looking at how ordinary people help change the american
health care system and there's a lovely lesson plan for grades 7-10 which is a history and social studies combination, whether they can explore images so a nice way to do some of that visual literacy again, and look at information about the different ways that people
extended medical care to others in the past. and then they can research information on the work of a particular american nurse and physician named lillian wald and leonides berry, those are some cool things can you do with that particular one.
and of course, here we have "visible proofs," this is one that focuses on looking at the forensic medicine, and so it covers information on the centuries of work that's been done by surgeons and physicians to develop different types of scientific methods that
translate different views of the normal, as they call it, anatomical body of males and females. so if you're interested in forensics, and forensic medicine, or you have students that might be interested, this is another resource that you can
use that may be of interest to you. are there any questions? i know i threw out a lot of exhibitions, and the ones i showed you were ones that have been created most of them within the past six months. i really encourage you to take a
look at those and see what parts you can use because all of the resources are available at no cost. you need internet access and a computer. you get it to. whether you're a librarian, in higher education, in elementary,
et cetera, you can look at all of these materials and choose which parts and pieces will work best for your particular population. so i encourage you to explore the nlm exhibition program, there are many more that i did not cover.
those of you who have oktoberfest in your communities, you may want to check out "from dna to beer" and there's lots of others of interest. i just pointed that one out. there are services for educators, from the national library of medicine directly.
so do take a look at the education services section of their website. and remember you will have access to the slides, so you can get to them. and then i also want to point out in medline plus there is an online version of the medline
plus magazine. once again, a good place to do health news with folks. and remember, you can order at no cost from the friends of the national library of medicine the medline plus magazine to come directly to your school or to your home.
you tell them how many you want. so if you're a librarian and know you've got ten classes that come in, you can tell them i need 200. if you have only one science class that you want to work with, because you're the educator, you can tell them i
only want 35 each, you know, quarter. and they are only published every quarter, and this is actually the newest one. and you probably recognize the gentleman on the cover. if you don't i'll lead you think about it.
our u.s. olympian, michael phelps. they feature a celebrity and have inside information from everyday people like you and me and the different things that they are dealing with as they address different health conditions and needs.
so definitely, definitely take a look at that. and then nih news in health, this is an online health newsletter that is great because it has very short and brief news articles, this is great especially working with younger students.
this one is printed or published every month, so it's a monthly newsletter, but you can download the pdf version and print those and get students debating and talking about health topics, so just to see what types of health issues and health science research is actually happening
in their communities. and then for your middle school and high schoolers, this is one of the things we do. this is a particular-- these are comic books that were created actually by high school students in south carolina. this is a partnership between
the national library of medicine and three low country high schools in south carolina and their area health education center to bring about awareness of different health topics, using national library of medicine resources. so if you want to engage your
students with graphic novels, as we know that students do like graphic novels, this is great and it's geared towards your middle school, you can use it in high school also. it really is a nice way that showcases that these students use some research, using nlm
resources, they came up with characters for the comic strip series, so their creative skills, and they increased knowledge about health careers and improved their health literacy. you can use this with your students and do the same.
i would suggest that you take a look at these comics, if you think you want to engage students with that. and then know there is a k-12 health resources guide, as all of these are independent websites and housed in different places, we in the middle
atlantic region tried to create one guide with a little bit of everything so you can come to one place and pretty much find what you need. so do take a look at that. and then i also would like to remind you that from your regional medical library, your
library, your school, you can have your organization sign up for free membership to our network, and you can order educational and printed materials and so you want to go to your particular region's page to find out what is available for you to order.
so like medline plus bookmarks, or the brochures for the tox mystery or household products, different regions have different things you can use, and then you can always request training such as this one, this training was actually set up by the state of new york, so thank you for
requesting this particular class. you can do that for your region also. do take advantage of the resources and the services that are available from your regional medical library at your nn/lm office.
so that is my quick overall intro to national library of as i said, it's much better in person when we can take breaks and take time to sift through the resources, give you some hands-on and really talk about how you can integrate them. i hope i gave enough examples of
different ways resources have been used. if not, remember, you can contact your nn/lm office, and work with one of the coordinators who will help you kind of think through ways to use them or show you some additional information about the
resources that are available. so i would like to thank all of you and let me put in the chat box, before you all head out, the link to the class aids and i will send out a follow-up message with this information. oops. so give me one moment.
all participants. so you should see the link to the class page, where you will have the full access to all of the powerpoint slides. so even if there are some of you who only work with elementary school, there is a slide show specifically for k-5, which is
different, and the same, there's one for middle school and high school only, and then a longer version of the one that i shared with you today. so thank you all for your time and attention. i hope you learned about something else.
and please, as rebecca has stated from new york, we'll offer this webinar again on april25. remember, i will switch up the resources that i share, because i want to keep it interesting. information on how to access, if you would like to get your c.e.
credits, the one credit for mla c.e. when you fill out the evaluation for the class, you will get to the c.e. so you can get that certificate. so if there are any other questions, feel free to type
them in the chat box. thank you for your time, everyone, and i wish you well. and i'll see you online for another class. thank you.
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