My partnership with Karen Mantzouris through Southern Regional Area Health Education Center or SRAHEC provided a great opportunity for me to experience the real-world applications of health sciences. I saw how the doctors, nurses, pharmacy doctors and medical technologists work together  to help save lives.

This unique experience gave me an idea  to develop a curriculum that provides in-depth learning about  microbiology and health sciences. It also showed me how to motivate students to understand the importance of real-world applications beyond learning an 8th grade science curriculum – structures and functions of organisms.

After implementing the curriculum I wrote about health literacy, I realized that my students were able to see the importance of learning health sciences. My students were able to experience and appreciate real-world applications of health sciences and health literacy.