From prescription to delivery, discover how robotics, computer science, and people work together to help customers receive healthcare.
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Students learn how prescriptions are received and how AI and machine learning help enter prescriptions quickly and accurately. Pharmacists review them for dosage, accuracy, and medication interactions.
Students see how robots and automation help fill prescriptions. Robots use computer systems, algorithms, and sensors to dispense, cap, and label medication.
Students learn how computer science and machine learning check filled prescriptions for accuracy and safety. Then, medications are prepared for delivery, including same-day delivery in some locations.
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.
Aligned to Standards
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:
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
The tour is aligned to the following NGSS disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices:
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.
Play it on Kahoot!
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.
Student Worksheet
Distribute graphic organizers for students to capture their biggest learnings and wonderings on the Innovations in Healthcare: Amazon Pharmacy tour.
I thought that this tour really highlighted how technology is a tool that can help to increase human efficiency and productivity. I think that with a growing concern of our nation’s health and longevity, the field of pharmacy has become paramount. I think that this tour will definitely engage students who are interested in the medical field and it will help to increase their understanding of how important it is for humans to leverage technology while still ensuring high quality.
Teacher, Oahu, Hawaii
This tour shows how computer science can be used in a field not typically regarded as computer science and the play between “human” and “robot” teams for the two students will be engaging for my students. I also like the consistency in using CS vocabulary like sensor, algorithms, AI, and ML.
Teacher, Livermore, CA
I liked the statements about how none of this works without people and that people and machines work together. Too many of my students from blue collar jobs are worried about jobs disappearing and this has a positive message they need to hear and understand.
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.
Student QuizCheck student understanding with a short quiz featuring questions from each stop on the career tour.
CertificatePrint and distribute student certificates to celebrate completing the tour!
