Shift in life expectancy part of SISL:2012 Sustainability in Math Workshop:Activities
Determining the shift in expected life span over a century and the social and environmental impact

Creating Modules for Health Sciences in a Precalculus Course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Goal: development of a set a modules intended to introduce Data Science in a precalculus course mainly for Health Science.

Where do drugs go? part of BASICS:Teaching Materials:The Wicked Problem of Water Quality in the Mississippi River Watershed:Course-Specific Exercises
This classroom discussion centered around the biological/chemical mechanisms by which drugs leave the body and where the drugs go from there. We discussed renal clearance via urine, then transitioned into a ...

Administering Medications to Patients -- Calculating Dosages in the Clinical Setting part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets across the Curriculum Module. Students build a spreadsheet to calculate proper medicine dosages using the metric system.

Has Our Knowledge of Neuroscience Led to Ethical Dilemmas? part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Using Issues to Teach Science:Examples
This is a lesson dealing with a new subdivision of bioethics called neuroethics. As our knowledge of the brain and nervous system expands, so do the ethical issues that result from this knowledge. This new area of ...

Biking vs Driving part of SISL:2012 Sustainability in Math Workshop:Activities
How much difference would biking to work one day per week make?

Geologic Materials and Processes and How They Impact Human Health part of Urban Geology:Activity Ideas
Syed E. Hasan Topic: Medical Geology; Geology and Health Course Type:intro upper level Description Learn how geologic processes result in incidence of disease and sickness; explore the link between cardiovascular ...