5. Exploring Stress and Anxiety
Stress, Anxiety and Human Migration: How can Biology, Art and History Inform?
This website provides examples of historical documents that can be analyzed to explore the relationship between human migration, stress and anxiety. This cross content project is an example of how a high school biology class at Whittle School & Studios, Washington DC, explored the biology of stress within the context of global human migration. The focus was to experience the individual story of a migrant as well as the global scale of migration through research data, diverse media in an art exhibition, in-person speeches by refugees, and documentaries about immigrant students, and then, to let students choose an example they connect with and proceed to research relying on primary literature and material evidence from biology, humanities, and the arts.