Innovations in Healthcare: Amazon Pharmacy
From prescription to delivery, discover how robotics, computer science, and people work together to help customers receive healthcare.
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Students gain exposure to the careers of the future as they discover how machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, and computer science work together with people to help deliver medication for people to get or stay healthy.
In this tour, students explore the following careers: Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Applied Scientist, and Process Engineer.
In this tour, students explore the following careers: Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Applied Scientist, and Process Engineer.
The 45 minute, interactive tour is aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards. The Teacher Toolkit includes a facilitation guide, worksheets, and other resources to support learning during the tour. Recommended for grades 4+.
Innovation in Healthcare: Amazon Pharmacy is aligned to the following CSTA standards:
Innovation in Healthcare: Amazon Pharmacy is aligned to the following CSTA standards:
- 1B-IC-18 Discuss computing technologies that have changed the world, and express how those technologies influence, and are influenced by, cultural practices.
- 1B-CS-01 Describe how internal and external parts of computing devices function to form a system.
- 1B-CS-02 Model how computer hardware and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks.
- 2-CS-02 Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data.
- 2-DA-08 Collect data using computational tools and transform the data to make it more useful and reliable.
- 3A-IC-24 Evaluate the ways computing impacts personal, ethical, social, economic, and cultural practices.
Concepts: Impacts of Computing, Algorithms & Programming, Computing Systems
Subconcept: Algorithms, Culture, Devices, Hardware & Software
Practices: Computational Problems
- Cause and effect
- Patterns
- Systems and system models
- Stability and change
- Analyze and interpret data
- MS-PS1-2 Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
- 3-5 ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
- 5-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
The fun, game-like tour will be available for FREE on Kahoot! to all interested classrooms and families. Students can play against each other while learning about the prescription ingestion, fulfillment, and quality control. No account required.
Teacher Toolkit
Our Teacher Toolkit provides educators with guides, worksheets, and other documents aligned to CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Use these materials to discover all the possibilities with computer science learning and careers of the future, and to set students up for success before, during, and after the tour.
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Student Worksheet Answer KeyCheck your students fill-in-the-blank answers on the student worksheet. -
Facilitation GuideRead instructions for setting up the Kahoot! tour with classes. Slide by slide script for delivering the tour to students. -
Key Student LearningsDiscover the key vocabulary and learnings covered on the Pharmacy tour by tour stop. -
CertificatePrint and distribute student certificates to celebrate completing the tour!
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