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Peer reviewedHeller, H. Craig – Teachers College Record, 1993
Campaigns to improve adolescent health must involve schools, focusing on middle grades. Currently, school organization is poor, with too little good curricular material for such students. The article describes Stanford University's interdisciplinary, core, middle grades curriculum in human biology that combats alienation from science by making it…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biological Sciences, Curriculum Development, Health Promotion
