Evolutionary Medicine

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.05.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction:
  2. Rationale:
  3. Content Objective:
  4. Teaching Strategies:
  5. Activities:
  6. Philosophy:
  7. Appendix of Implementing District Standards:
  8. Annotated Bibliography:
  9. Endnotes:

Evolution

Aaron Cruz

Published September 2024

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Annotated Bibliography:

  1. Alberts, Bruce, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 6th ed. New York: Garland Science, 2015. “Used for a proper explanation of bacteria vs. viruses”
  2. Bang, Megan Elisabeth. Understanding Students’ Epistemologies: Examining Practice and Meaning in Community Contexts. PhD diss., Northwestern University, 2009. ProQuest (UMI 3386367). “Megan Bang is a Native American and science educator, whose main research is alternative pedagogical practices that are more culturally designed for students to increase engagement and understanding.”
  3. Bang, Megan. "Culture, Learning, and Development and the Natural World: The Influences of Situative Perspectives." Educational Psychologist 50, no. 3 (2015): 220-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2015.1075402. “Another one of Bang’s work”
  4. Flint, S. Jane, L. W. Enquist, V. R. Racaniello, and A. M. Skalka. Principles of Virology. 4th ed. Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2015. “I had to broaden my understanding of the structure of what a virus is and made out of”
  5. Friedman, Michael C. Notes on Note-Taking: Review of Research and Insights for Students and Instructors. Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, Harvard University, 2014. “I have noticed that in the past couple of years, my students do not have a strong foundation of note taking habits, nor do they look over their notes and understand what they wrote down. This article helps with more ideas for note taking, what is a better method of note taking, and which is more preferred.”
  6. Gerrish, Philip J., and Richard E. Lenski. "The Fate of Competing Beneficial Mutations in an Asexual Population." Genetica 102/103 (1998): 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017067816551. “This article helps progress the idea of natural selection when it comes to organisms that reproduce asexually for survival.”
  7. Hoffman, D. E. (Correspondent). "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria." In Frontline. Executive produced by D. Fanning. Public Broadcasting Service, October 22, 2013. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/. “This has the Addie Rercich case, along with 2 other case studies, focused on drug resistant bacterias. I do plan to only show my students’ just Addie’s case. However, this is still good to have if students (or if I) need other references.”
  8. Johns Hopkins Medicine. "Amputation." Accessed August 16, 2024. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/amputation. “This helped me understand more about amputations”
  9. Lambrou, Anastasia S., et al. "Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Predominance of the Delta (B.1.617.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variants — United States, June 2021–January 2022." MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 71, no. 6 (2022): 206-211. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106a4.htm. “This article focuses on how viruses are able to change into a new variant and evolve. This is used as an example to showcase how evolution can happen quickly in microorganisms.”
  10. Matser, Yvette A. H., Matty L. Terpstra, Silvio Nadalin, George D. Nossent, Jan de Boer, Barbara C. van Bemmel, Susanne van Eeden, Klemens Budde, and Susanne Brakemeier. "Transmission of Breast Cancer by a Single Multiorgan Donor to 4 Transplant Recipients." American Journal of Transplantation 18, no. 8 (2018): 1810-1814. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1600613522096290. “Discusses how cancer can be transmissible to another person with a case study of a woman’s donated organs that went to 4 recipients, who later all died of cancer or sepsis.”
  11. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). "Silent Mutation." Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Accessed August 16, 2024. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK560519/#:~:text=A%20silent%20mutation%20is%20a,acid%20sequence%20or%20protein%20function. “Was looking for a textbook definition of silent mutation”
  12. National Geographic Society. "Genetic Variation." Accessed August 16, 2024. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/genetic-variation/. “A better definition of genetic variation”
  13. Next Generation Science Standards. "Search Standards." Accessed July 10, 2024. https://www.nextgenscience.org/search-standards?keys=&tid%5B%5D=107&tid_3%5B%5D=96. “These are the standards I focus my teaching on.”
  14. PhET Interactive Simulations. "Natural Selection." University of Colorado Boulder. Accessed July 10, 2024. https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/natural-selection/latest/natural-selection_en.html. “A resource that has multiple simulations in STEM.”
  15. Poole, Keith. "Stress Responses as Determinants of Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacteria." Trends in Microbiology 20, no. 5 (2012): 227-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2012.02.004. “This paper discusses gram negative bacteria being able to survive antibiotics, due to their outer cell wall structure.”
  16. Turner, Paul E. "Evolutionary Medicine." In Evolution and Modern Society, edited by S.T. Abedon, 735-744. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. “Evolutionary Medicine is a new term that I need to be familiar with. First introduced to the term by Paul Turner.”
  17. Understanding Evolution. "Natural Selection." University of California Museum of Paleontology. Accessed August 16, 2024. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/glossary/natural-selection/. “A proper definition of Natural Selection”
  18. Van de Vuurst, Paige, and Luis E. Escobar. "Climate Change and Infectious Disease: A Review of Evidence and Research Trends." Infectious Diseases of Poverty 12, no. 51 (2023): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-023-01102-2. “This article showcases how bacterial and viral diseases are doing well in increased temperatures, via climate change. It confirms that climate change and human activity are linked in diseases thriving in areas of the world, that was the disease was previously not found in (e.g. finding malaria in normally colder regions of the world).”
  19. WeAreTeachers. "11 Note-Taking Strategies That Help Students Learn." Accessed August 17, 2024. https://www.weareteachers.com/note-taking-strategies/. “This has tips and explanations for teaching your students how to take better notes. Hoping to retent information.

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