Evolutionary Medicine

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.05.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. Content Objectives
  3. Culture Significance
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing State and Navajo Standards
  7. Navajo Nation Standards
  8. Bibliography 
  9. Endnotes

Evolutionary Medicine: Pathogen (COVID-19, Influenza) and the Navajo People

Jolene Rose Smith

Published September 2024

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Appendix on Implementing State and Navajo Standards

Physical Sciences: Students develop an understanding that changes can occur to matter/objects on Earth or in space, but both energy and matter follow the pattern of being conserved during those changes.

5.P1U1.1 Analyze and interpret data to explain that matter of any type can be subdivided into particles too small to see and, in a closed system, if properties change or chemical reactions occur, the amount of matter stays the same. Students complete an augur plate activity to get an idea of germs and compare it to viruses.

5.P1U1.2 Plan and carry out investigations to demonstrate that some substances combine to form new substances with different properties and others can be mixed without taking on new properties. Students analyze how viruses travel and mutate in time.

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