Hello all! As this summer is winding down fast, we wanted to provide an update of all the wonderful things we have gotten to create throughout 2017 so far. As more publicity and inquires have been driven by the development of the CancerEd.org website and more articles through Calvin College, our focus has been to continue developing our website and marketing materials. With a redesigned website, creation of a brochure to distribute to schools and hospitals, and marketing through social media (specifically Facebook and Twitter), our organization has become more known and now being utilized throughout classrooms!
Another main focus for us this year was having consistent formatting for all of our lesson plans. We designed aesthetically pleasing and functional, easy to read templates to reformat all of our current lesson plans and developed new lesson plans. Our new lesson plans include topics of: Lung Cancer & Smoking, Skin Cancer & Sun Protection, and Cancer Prevention & Healthy Habits, with more under construction. They will be uploaded to the website soon! Further, we have created Lesson Plan Maps (detailing which order to teach each lesson based on time availability), Glossaries, Crossword Puzzles and Word Searches to diversify and supplement our lesson plan materials. Lastly, we have gathered a comprehensive collection of resources (websites, videos, games, books, etc.) for parents of kids with cancer, kids who have parents or siblings with cancer, teachers with a student who has cancer, and more.
Our future goals include: developing more lesson plans, continuing to pilot and revise our current ones, maintaining our website and marketing materials, and expanding our outreach through presentations and fairs. As you can see, we have been very busy this last year; our CancerEd Team continues to work hard to reach our goal of providing freely-accessible educational materials for grades K-5 to teach them about cancer. Check out our new lesson plans, and we promise to keep you updated with future developments!