Medical Terminology

CTE TEKS - Implemented 2017-2018, adopted in 2015

Medical Terminology course scope and sequence within the Health Science Career Cluster® summarizes the content to be taught, and one possible order for teaching the units of instruction. A brief description of each unit and the corresponding TEKS are included. This scope and sequence may be adapted or adopted by the local education agency.

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Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.

You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.

If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.

In this lesson, students will learn to define and describe common terms associated with the digestive system, identify the anatomy of the digestive system, use roots, suffixes, and prefixes to analyze word meanings, and finally research common diseases of the digestive system.

One or more lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.

You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.

If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here (https://support.txcte.org/hc/en-us/requests/new), for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.

This lesson allows students to be exposed to roots, suffixes, and prefixes as well as medical abbreviations and acronyms. 

In this lesson, students will learn to define and describe common terms associated with the digestive system, identify the anatomy of the digestive system, use roots, suffixes, and prefixes to analyze word meanings, and finally research common diseases of the digestive system.

One or more lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.

You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.

If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here (https://support.txcte.org/hc/en-us/requests/new), for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.

This lesson allows students to be exposed to roots, suffixes, and prefixes as well as medical abbreviations and acronyms. 

In this lesson, students will learn to define and describe common terms associated with the digestive system, identify the anatomy of the digestive system, use roots, suffixes, and prefixes to analyze word meanings, and finally research common diseases of the digestive system.

This lesson allows students to be exposed to roots, suffixes, and prefixes as well as medical abbreviations and acronyms. 

In this lesson, students will learn to define and describe common terms associated with the digestive system, identify the anatomy of the digestive system, use roots, suffixes, and prefixes to analyze word meanings, and finally research common diseases of the digestive system.

Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.

You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.

If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.