BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT — Project Lead The Way, the nation’s leading non-profit provider of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum and professional development to middle and high schools, announced this month that Spanaway Middle School has been selected to pilot a new PLTW middle school unit during the spring of 2013.  The new unit is called Medical Detectives and will be part of the middle school’s Gateway To Technology program from PLTW.  In the new unit, students explore the biomedical sciences through hands-on projects and labs that require the students to solve a variety of medical mysteries. 

Lois Noble is the instructor selected to pilot the course at Spanaway Middle School. Approximately 30 teachers nationwide will be piloting the unit. These teachers will be the lead instructors of professional development training for the teachers who wish to implement the Medical Detectives unit when it officially rolls out for the 2013-14 school year.  There are over 5,200 PLTW programs in more than 4,200 schools nationwide. 

Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is the leading provider of rigorous and innovative STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education curricular programs used in schools. For more information, visit www.pltw.org