Architecture of Grace

Medicine and Health

Healthy habits, the body, and how people have cared for the sick, West and East, K–12.

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  • 17units
  • 34chapters
  • 333lessons
  • 5grade bands

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Grades K–2

3 units · 6 chapters · 46 lessons

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Unit 1

Healthy Habits

My Healthy Body

  1. Germs and Clean Hands
  2. Food, Sleep and Play

2 chapters · 15 lessons

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Unit 2

Helpers

Helpers Who Keep Us Well

  1. A Visit to the Doctor
  2. Feelings and Calm Bodies

2 chapters · 16 lessons

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Unit 3

World Health

Healthy Ways Around the World

  1. Old Ways of Staying Well
  2. Staying Safe

2 chapters · 15 lessons

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Grades 3–5

4 units · 8 chapters · 80 lessons

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Unit 4

The Body

How the Body Works

  1. Body Systems Working Together
  2. Food as Fuel

2 chapters · 20 lessons

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Unit 5

Staying Well

Germs, Vaccines and First Aid

  1. Germs and How We Fight Them
  2. First Aid and Emergencies

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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Unit 6

Traditions

Medicine East and West

  1. Doctors of the West
  2. Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda

2 chapters · 18 lessons

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Unit 7

Whole Health

Mind and Body

  1. Mental Health Is Health
  2. Growing and Changing

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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CourseWorld ReligionsThe great traditions in their own words, K–12.

Grades 6–8

4 units · 8 chapters · 82 lessons

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Unit 8

Ancient World

Ancient Medicine

  1. Egypt, Greece and Rome
  2. China and India

2 chapters · 20 lessons

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Unit 9

Medieval to Modern

From the Islamic Golden Age to the Renaissance

  1. Hospitals and the Canon
  2. Looking Inside the Body

2 chapters · 20 lessons

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Unit 10

Modern Medicine

The Germ Revolution

  1. Vaccines, Germs and Clean Surgery
  2. Antibiotics and the 1900s

2 chapters · 20 lessons

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Unit 11

Health Science

Your Body's Defenses and Choices

  1. The Immune System
  2. Healthy Choices and Hard Things

2 chapters · 22 lessons

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Grades 9–10

3 units · 6 chapters · 65 lessons

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Unit 12

Evidence

How Medicine Knows

  1. Testing a Treatment
  2. Epidemiology and Public Health

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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Unit 13

Integrative Medicine

Traditional Medicine and the Evidence

  1. Traditional Chinese Medicine Today
  2. Ayurveda, Unani and Other Traditions

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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Unit 14

Global Health

Global Health

  1. Diseases That Shape the World
  2. Chronic Disease and Lifestyle

2 chapters · 23 lessons

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Grades 11–12

3 units · 6 chapters · 60 lessons

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Unit 15

Systems

Health Systems Around the World

  1. Who Pays for Care?
  2. Medicine Across Cultures

2 chapters · 19 lessons

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Unit 16

Ethics

Ethics and the Mind

  1. Medical Ethics
  2. Mental Health and the Brain

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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Unit 17

Capstone

The Future of Medicine, and Capstone

  1. New Frontiers
  2. Capstone: A Health Question and the Evidence

2 chapters · 20 lessons

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Practice every day

Ten short lines a day: the body, staying well and the history of medicine.

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What the course covers

The course studies health and medicine: healthy habits, germs and helpers for the youngest readers; body systems, first aid and the medical traditions of the West, China and India in the middle grades; the history of medicine from Egypt, Greece, China, India and the Islamic world to antibiotics in 6–8; how science tests a treatment, traditional medicine and the evidence, and global health in 9–10; and health systems, ethics, mental health and a capstone in 11–12. Traditions are described respectfully and the evidence is stated plainly. It is for learning, not medical advice. Every lesson ends with three checks answerable from its reading.

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Traditions are described with respect, and the course says plainly what the evidence shows. It is for learning, not medical advice: ask a doctor or nurse about your own health.

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