NAF's Education Today
We are excited to launch a new section on naf.org: NAF’s Education Today! In addition to this weekly email series, you can visit resources.naf.org to access curated lessons and activities for Health Sciences, live events for students and educators, and help from our community. We hope this will make teaching during the pandemic a little easier—let us know what you think. 

And don’t forget! Join us this Tuesday to learn about how you can create a culturally competent classroom and then on Wednesday come learn about effective blended teaching and learning practices.  
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Health Sciences Curriculum
Check out our recommendations for your classroom this week:

Anatomy & Physiology: Introduce students to the Immune System, then ask them to use a graphic organizer to summarize and outline how the system works. 

Health Careers: Check out Disease Control & Prevention in NAF’s Health Careers Unit 2, where students join the CDC in investigating an outbreak and use the Coronavirus Resource Center from LabXchange to provide the relevant information students will need to investigate COVID-19.
 
Biotechnology: Introduce NAF’s Biotechnology Unit 2 - Biotechnology Lab Practice by showing students the LabXchange video how to use a micropipette, and then, ask them to summarize the sequence of steps after reviewing this micropipette simulation. 
 
Global Health: To understand the Ebola Virus, create a Virus Model to test your understanding by changing the value of a single virus characteristic or human response factor, predict the outcome, build the graph, and then, compare the result to your prediction.
HOW WE'RE TEACHING ONLINE 
This year, engaging caregivers as co-teachers is more important than ever. Watch this webinar to learn strategies for connecting with caregivers during remote and hybrid learning, then learn how to avoid the three most common mistakes in distance teaching. 
WHAT WE'RE LEARNING - RACIAL EQUITY IN PRACTICE  
September 15 - October 15 is Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month! Use this discussion activity in your classroom to help students gain a deeper understanding of past and present struggles for Latinx civil rights, then be sure to check your bias and identify areas of growth with this personal assessment.
WHEN WORK-BASED LEARNING GOES VIRTUAL 
Looking to increase work-based learning opportunities for your academy students but need help bringing in more advisory board members and partners? Check out NAF’s recruitment best practices and our guide to engaging potential partners. Then watch this learning session from NAF Next 2020 on how to effectively engage your academy's advisory board.

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