“From the Lab to the Classroom 2: Health Ecology”
After more than three years of work, 89 teachers and researchers officially received a copy of their collective work, *From the Lab to the Classroom 2: Health Ecology*, which was presented to them by Sophie Béjean, Rector of the Occitanie Academic Region and the Montpellier School District, Philippe Augé, President of the University of Montpellier, and Florent Guhl, Regional Director of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry.
This book is the result of a new collaboration between Professors the University of Montpellier, researchers (CNRS, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE), and secondary school teachers (biology, biotechnology, agriculture). Its aim is to incorporate resources drawn from authentic, recent scientific articles into lesson plans for middle and high schools.
The “ready-to-use” activities provided—each accompanied by a supporting poster—are tools carefully designed by the authors. They help advance teaching practices by adapting the latest scientific research findings to the level of each high school class.
Following a first volume devoted to evolution, this second volume focuses on health ecology, a field at the forefront of current scientific research and central to the University of Montpellier’s strategic priorities. This field involves applying the tools and concepts of ecology and evolutionary biology to the integrated and collaborative study of human, animal, and plant health.
The book, which is about 200 pages long, is distributed nationwide to every high school and middle school in France, as well as to agricultural schools. With a print run of 12,000 copies, its printing was funded by the University of Montpellier, and its layout and distribution were made possible through the collaboration of the APBG (Association of Biology and Geology Teachers).