10/05/2026
🦠🧫🔬 CTE SPOTLIGHT 🦠🧫🔬
🦠🦠🦠 HEALTH SCIENCE 🦠🦠🦠
🦠 Did you know a simple touch can spread GERMS across campus❓🦠
🧫 Eighth grade students in Mrs. Tucker’s HEALTH SCIENCE classes investigated the CHAIN OF INFECTION using Glo‑Germ + blacklights, practiced proper PPE donning/removal (glove removal tested with shaving cream!), learned handwashing ✋ 🧼 technique, swabbed school surfaces 🧫 to grow microbes 🦠 on agar, and examined common pathogens under the microscope 🔬.
🔬 Students were posed with the QUESTION:
"What can you do as a student at LFMS to prevent the spread of germs ❓"
🦠 They then applied their findings in a PBL to design real solutions to stop it! 💪
🧫 Final projects included letters to administrators requesting automatic restroom fixtures and more sanitizer stations, peer‑to‑peer PSA scripts for the Den Daily News, and creative visual nudges to encourage handwashing!
🔬 We’re so proud of their evidence‑based solutions! 🌟
🗣️ CTE = Career and Technical Education
🗣️ PPE = Personal Protective Equipment
🗣️ PBL = Problem Based Learning
🗣️ PSA = Public Service Announcement
🌐 Tennessee State Health Science Standards
🌀 TN Standard 4.1: Define the chain of infection and provide strategies for how to break each part of the chain to prevent the spread of infection. Identify infectious disease outbreaks and apply the strategies for breaking the chain to each outbreak identified.
🌀 TN Standard 4.2: Understand the principles of and successfully perform the following skills to prevent or cartel the spread of pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms: a. handwashing, b. gloving, and c. mask wearing
🌀TN Standard 7.1: Engineering Design Process: Create an original medical innovation idea and design.
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