Overview | In this lesson, students consider their knowledge
about and associations with cancer. After reading up on new
recommendations to limit cancer screenings, they develop patient
fact sheets about cancer, focusing on treatments and screening
techniques. Materials | Computers with Internet access,
resources for researching cancer, poster paper, markers. Warm-Up
| Hang several sheets of poster paper around the room, and place
a set of markers beside each poster. Write the word “cancer” in
the middle of each poster and circle it. Divide the class into
as many groups as there are posters, and tell each group to
create a word web on the paper, using “cancer” as a starting
point. They should use free association and brainstorming, as
well as reflective thinking and knowledge retrieval, to add
words and phrases to the poster. Tell them to share everything
from personal associations to scientific knowledge to news about
high-profile people with cancer, like the Apple co-founder Steve
Jobs, who died of pancreat