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Open Wide and Trek Inside (Dental Health)
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| What is "Open Wide and Trek Inside"? | A dental health curriculum supplement for elementary students, developed under contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). |
| Who developed this curriculum module? | BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study) and Videodiscovery, Inc., under contract with NIH. |
| What is NIH? | The National Institutes of Health, the world's top medical research center, charged with addressing the nation's health concerns and the largest U.S. governmental sponsor of health studies. |
| What is the main goal of the NIH? | To acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from rare genetic disorders to the common cold. |
| How does the NIH support research? | About 82% of its budget funds grants and contracts for research/training at over 2,000 universities, medical schools, hospitals, and institutions; about 10% funds NIH's own laboratory projects. |
| What is NIDCR? | The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the NIH institute that provided the contract and scientific support for this dental health curriculum. |
| What is the Office of Science Education (OSE)? | An NIH office dedicated to promoting science education and scientific literacy, which produces the NIH Curriculum Supplements Series. |
| What is the NIH Curriculum Supplements Series? | A series of free curriculum supplements for grades K–12 that bring NIH medical science and research discoveries into classrooms, released yearly. |
| What instructional model organizes the lessons in this module? | The BSCS 5E Instructional Model of Learning. |
| What are the 5E's meant to promote? | Active, collaborative, inquiry-based learning. |
| What document guided the design of this curriculum? | The National Science Education Standards, released by the National Academy of Sciences in December 1995. |
| What is emphasized by the National Science Education Standards? | Selecting major science concepts that empower students to solve problems, rather than stressing memorization of unrelated information. |
| List Lesson 1 of the module. | "What Do Mouths Do?" |
| List Lesson 2 of the module. | "Open Wide! What's Inside?" |
| List Lesson 3 of the module. | "Let's Investigate Tooth Decay!" |
| List Lesson 4 of the module. | "What Lives Inside Your Mouth?" |
| List Lesson 5 of the module. | "What Keeps Your Mouth Healthy?" |
| List Lesson 6 of the module. | "What Have You Learned about the Mouth?" |
| What materials come with the module? | Printed teacher/student materials, background and resource information, and a CD-ROM with videos and interactive activities. |
| Can teachers copy this module's materials? | Yes, materials may be copied for classroom use but not sold. |
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