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About Health Science CPUs (Career Pathway Units)
Introduction
 Every
Health Science Career Pathway Unit (CPU) comes complete with all of
the necessary equipment and materials. Each CPU also comes with enough consumable
materials for at least 24 students. Virtually all of these
materials fit in or on the supplied cart.
The Health Science CPUs are 15 activities long,
which represents 15-20 hours worth of work. Students spend the
first 12 activities following step-by-step instructions and covering a
great deal of career-based information. If possible, the students
spend Activities 13 and 14 in job shadowing activities. If this
option is not possible, alternative activities are provided.
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Overview
 The layout and format is consistent from
CPU to CPU. For
example, every activity begins with an inventory of the CPU materials ensuring both student and instructor that all materials are in the
CPU
area and in working condition. At the end of each activity,
students are to complete a "critical thinking" step where they respond
to a scenario or question. This consistency keeps students from having to learn
different formats as they rotate from CPU to CPU. This means less time is
spent navigating the system and more time is spent learning the material.
Each Health Science CPU also makes use of
Media Cruiser, Applied Technologies'
computer-based delivery system. As students work through the CPU, the
students use Media Cruiser to
launch software, watch videos, take tests, and more.
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Assessment
Each CPU starts with a computer-based Pre-test and ends with a Post-test. These tests help access how much material the student learned by the
end of the CPU.
 As the students work through the activities, they will define 20 vocabulary words
and complete numerous computer-based quizzes. These quizzes offer a variety of
question styles including multiple choice, multiple-multiple choice, fill in the blank,
matching, hot spot, and true and false. Each question must be answered correctly
before the student can continue through the quiz. Help screens are displayed when a
student answers a question incorrectly.
Many of the CPUs also make use of
"Checkpoints," which are computer-based "tests" that the instructor
takes to verify that students are properly completing hands-on activities.
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Instructor Aids
 Each CPU comes with an Instructor's Overview (IO). The IO contains answer keys
and source locators to the Pre- and Post-test, quizzes, and vocabulary words; a Notes to
the Instructor section that outlines important information the instructor needs to know
and implement in order for the CPU to run smoothly; and each activity's
objectives. The IO also contains any work sheets that may need to be passed out.
Customization is one of the key features of Applied
Technologies' products. For example, suppose you found a new piece of software you wanted to add to the
Forensic Science CPU.
Simply open Media Editor
(Media Cruiser's "behind the scenes" counterpart) and tell it where to find that new
program's executable file.
Each Health Science Media Cruiser CPU CD also contains the Instructor's Overview in Adobe Reader's .pdf format. Using Adobe Reader
(located on the Media Cruiser Program CD), an instructor can open any IO and reprint pages that might have been lost or damaged.
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Video Case Study
Because our
Health Science Education
products, Foundations and, especially,
Career
Pathways, can be taught in a variety of ways (modular,
demonstration, lock-step), we have begun doing video case
studies of how teachers use our products. The first is
complete. We visited
Kandy Callaghan at
Nature
Coast Technical High School in Brooksville, FL. We invite
you now to watch the video segments on each Health Science Education
product line:
If you would like a DVD version of these segments,
please
let us know and we'll be sure to get one out to you ASAP!
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