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A Health Science Education Partnership between SBRC and LRSD It’s All About Me Stephen Jones St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre R3038 351 Taché Ave Winnipeg, MB, Canada R2H 2A6 204-235-3171 [email protected] Supporting Health Literacy and Science Education It’s All About Me is a partnership that connects students across the Louis Riel School Division to current health science at the St. Boniface General Hospital Re- search Centre. Through hands-on sessions developed in collaboration with classroom teachers, we strive to support student understanding of their own health and show students that their science learning is all about them! In-class sessions with SBRC scientists give students hands-on exposure to current medical science.
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A Health Science EducationPartnership betweenSBRC and LRSD
It’s All About MeStephen Jones St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre R3038 351 Taché Ave Winnipeg, MB, Canada R2H 2A6
204-235-3171 [email protected]
Supporting Health Literacy and Science EducationIt’s All About Me is a partnership that connects students across the Louis Riel School Division to current health science at the St. Boniface General Hospital Re-search Centre.
Through hands-on sessions developed in collaboration with classroom teachers, we strive to support student understanding of their own health and show students that their science learning is all about them!
In-class sessions with SBRC scientists give students hands-on exposure to current medical science.
All about the partnership
It’s All About Me: learning that health, science, research and medicine have meaning to each of us as individu-als and as a community.
Partnering since 2005, the St. Boniface General •Hospital Research Centre and the Louis Riel School Division bring current science and medicine at SBGH to all 38 schools of the LRSD by connecting with more than 3,000 Grade 5 to12 students per year.
Learning experiences are developed on an ongoing •basis in collaboration with teachers and brought into classrooms to support regular classroom instruction and meet provincial curriculum learning outcomes.
Classroom “scientist-in-residence” sessions with •staff from SBRC include lab-based activities, dis-sections focusing on current research and disease, research presentations, patient case studies, scien-tifictechnologyandmore,dependingontheneedsofschools, teachers and students.
We work together to expose students, parents and •teachers to the nature of science and to current sci-ence in their community.
Our goal is science for all: showing all students how •the material they learn in class relates to them as individuals and to applications at SBGH.
We hope to create a basis for further science and •health learning and to provide the literacy skills required to understand the rapidly changing worlds of medicine and science.
All about our activities
Our classroom time is designed to connect real science and medicine directly to curriculum. In collaboration with class-room teachers, classroom sessions and Research Centre experiences are designed and scheduled to connect with student learning and school needs.
Grade 5 Maintaining a Healthy BodyMedical imaging and a real look inside your body•
Grade 6 Healthy Lifestyle PracticesDiabetes patient cases and the effects of Type 1 and 2 •
diabetes on the heart and brain
Grade 7 Interactions Within EcosystemsMicroorganisms and the spread of disease •
Grade 8 Cells and SystemsHeart attacks from cell to system, diabetes and Alzheim-•
er’s from cell to system, neuropathy
Grade 9 ReproductionGenetic engineering and molecular biology, bacterial •
transformation
Grade 11 BiologyHeart and brain diseases and research, stem cell re-•
search
Grade 12 BiologyDNA technology in medical research, genes in disease, •
gel electrophoresis and molecular biology
All about us
Stephen Jones• is the coordinator of It’s All About Me, and is involved with all aspects of the partnership fromlabtoclassroom.Heisacertifiedteacherandhasworked in the Molecular Cardiology Lab at SBRC since 1999.
Christian Michalik• is Assistant Superintendent of the Louis Riel School Division, and has been involved in the creation and continued development of the partnership.
Dr. Grant Pierce• is the Executive Director of Research at the St. Boniface General Hospital. His interest in connecting our public to research in our community has supported the partnership.
Dr. Paul Fernyhough• is the Director of the Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders, and heads the Cell Biol-ogy of Neurodegeneration Lab at SBRC. He has been in-volved with many outreach activities through SBRC, and supports neuroscience activities with It’s All About Me.
Linda Girling• is a Curriculum Coordinator with LRSD, and facilitates program development and school involve-ment with It’s All About Me.
