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Ritz, John M. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2012
Many people suffer from chronic diseases and problems due to injury from accidents or ailments. Some problems, such as measles and cancer, can be cured or put into remission with time, medicine, or treatments. Other ailments, such as high blood pressure, failing kidneys, and cystic fibrosis, cannot be cured and require continuous use of…
Descriptors: Medicine, Ethics, Human Body, Health Conditions
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Bybee, Rodger W. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2010
STEM (an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics) had its origins in the 1990s at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has been used as a generic label for any event, policy, program, or practice that involves one or several of the STEM disciplines. However, a recent survey on the "perception of STEM" found that most…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Memory, Engineering, Science Education