lifestyle choices and medical treatments that might have prolonged the person’s life. The activities and projects introduce students to human physiology, medicine, research processes and bioinformatics. Key biological concepts including homeostasis, metabolism, inheritance of traits, and defense against disease are embedded in the curriculum. Engineering principles including the design process, feedback loops, and the relationship of structure to function are also incorporated. This course is designed to provide an overview of all the courses in the Biomedical Sciences program and lay the scientific foundation for subsequent courses. (Project Lead The Way-PLTW)
PLTW 4: Biomedical Innovations Duration: Year/1.0 credit Fee: None Grade levels: 12 Prerequisite: PLTW 3: Medical Interventions eAchieve Option: No In the final course of the PLTW Biomedical Science sequence, students build on the knowledge and skills gained from previous courses to design innovative solutions for the most pressing health challenges of the 21st century. Students address topics ranging from public health and biomedical engineering to clinical medicine and physiology. They
PLTW 2: Human Body Systems
have the opportunity to work on an independent design project.
Duration: Year/1.0 credit Fee: None Grade levels: 10 Prerequisite: PLTW 1: Principles of Biomedical Sciences eAchieve Option: No
Health Academy Youth Apprenticeship Work Experience
Students examine the interactions of human body systems as they explore identity, power, movement, protection, and homeostasis. Students design experiments, investigate the structures and functions of the human body, and use data acquisition software to monitor body functions such as muscle movement, reflex and voluntary action, and respiration. Exploring science in action, students build organs and tissues on a skeletal manikin, work through interesting real world cases and often play the roles of biomedical professionals to solve medical mysteries. This course is designed to provide an overview of all the courses in the Biomedical Sciences program and lay the scientific foundation for subsequent courses.
PLTW 3: Medical Interventions Duration: Year/1.0 credit Fee: None Grade levels: 11 Prerequisite: PLTW 2: Human Body Systems eAchieve Option: No Students investigate a variety of interventions involved in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease as they follow the life of a fictitious family. The course is a “how-to” manual for maintaining overall health and homeostasis in the body. Students explore how to prevent and fight infection; screen and evaluate the code in human DNA; prevent, diagnose and treat cancer; and prevail when the organs of the body begin to fail. Through these scenarios, students are exposed to a range of interventions related to immunology, surgery, genetics, pharmacology, medical devices, and diagnostics.
Duration: Year/1.0 credit Fee: None Grade levels: 11, 12 Prerequisite: None eAchieve Option: No
Students will receive on-the-job training that will help prepare them for their future healthcare careers. This program involves a cooperative arrangement between the students, employers, parents, and Youth Apprenticeship coordinator. To begin this work experience students must have completed a Certified Nursing Assistant Course. With assistance from the Youth Apprenticeship coordinator, students will secure employment in a long-term care facility hospital, medical office, dental office, pharmacy or clinic. Training is supervised by job site mentors. This work experience provides students with wages and high school credit. Students may receive up to 2 credits for this work experience based on hours worked. * Advanced Standing Credit: When an advanced standing course is successfully completed with a grade of B or higher you will receive credit for that high school course upon enrollment at WCTC or another Technical College, and those credits will be applied toward your technical college degree. You will receive these technical college credits at no cost to you, making your post-secondary education more cost effective.
* Transcripted Credit: Students taking transcripted credit courses at the high school level will receive both high school and WCTC course credit. A transcript is on file for the high school student at WCTC, which they may access and print from WCTC's website. WCTC also has agreements with several four-year universities who will accept some of those classes as transfer credits.
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