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Every month, students can learn about a new biomedical breakthrough at What A Year! It's a free project from MSMR that you can find at www.WhatAYear.org. We also offer a student worksheet and teacher guidance each month. Check it out: click here. Now Announcing the 2008 MSMR Poster Competition Students in grades 7 & 8 can enter the MSMR Poster Competition and win fame, glory and cash prizes up to $500. Their teachers can earn classroom grants, too. For all the details and an Entry Form, click here. |
That Has Got To Hurt!MSMR works with teachers to bring speakers to class
to discuss science, research, risk, and animal care in ways appropriate
to middle school students. If you’d like to know more about our Science Beat program, including laboratory visits, e-mail us here. Tell us your
name, the school, town and grade, your phone number and the best time
to get in touch with you. The Science Beat program
is open to all schools in Massachusetts.
The illustrated storybook, Casey’s Awakening
, tells the story of a class’s visit to an animal research
facility and the feelings of the different students. To learn more about Casey’s Awakening©, click here.
Consumer Product Safety is a booklet explaining the
science of ensuring that consumer products are safe. To learn more, click here.
LAB Notes is a classroom newsletter on current topics in life science research. The LAB Notes: Toxicology issue covers risk assessment and the science of toxicology. There are descriptions of accompanying classroom activities. To learn more about LAB Notes: Toxicology, click here . To download a copy of LAB Notes: Toxicology, click here.
LAB
Notes: Nutrition is a fun, informative 16-page introduction
to nutrition and nutrition science for students in grades 7 and higher.
Download it by clicking
here.
Milestones in Medicine is a fully illustrated wall
poster, produced by the Texas Society for Biomedical Research, highlighting
the specific contributions animals have made in important biomedical
research. To learn more about Milestones, click
here.
The Infection Game®
for ages 9 – 90 is fun. Players race around the game board acquiring
and curing diseases and trying to avoid being infected by their neighbors.
The Infection Game is available from MSMR’s EAST MEETS
WEST in the Heartland© colleague,
the Ohio Scientific and Educational Research Association. Click
here for information or to order the game or for information on
a curriculum guide for using the game.
Other materials for middle school teachers and students are listed in
our on-line Catalog – Outreach Programs and Educational
Materials. Most programs and materials are free in single copies
to Massachusetts teachers. To go to the Catalog, click
here.