About PhUn Week
Physiology Understanding Week is the American Physiological Society’s member-based annual outreach program to K-12 school classrooms each November.
The goals of PhUn Week are to:
- Increase student interest in and understanding of physiology in their lives.
- Increase teacher recognition of physiology in their standards-based science curriculum.
- Introduce students to physiology as a possible career.
- Involve more physiologists in outreach to the students and teachers in their communities.
Across the nation, physiologists and members of their laboratory partner
with local area teachers to adapt and customize instructional materials
for classroom visits or school assembly programs.
Teams engage students in relevant learning experiences through interactive,
hands-on physiology activities. Through this real-life, face-to-face encounter with scientists,
students learn about how their bodies function and how medical discoveries are made.
PhUn Week 2009 focuses on the physiology of exercise,
but APS members are welcome to focus on other areas of physiology.
PhUn Week 2009 should be scheduled as close as possible to the first week in November.
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