Innovations in Healthcare: Amazon Pharmacy

On the tour, students will learn how computer science, machine learning, and robotics are changing the way people receive prescriptions through Amazon Pharmacy. Along the way they’ll meet two pharmacists, a pharmacy technician, process engineer, and applied scientist.

To learn more, check out the teacher toolkit resources.

Innovations 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 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.

The following STEM topics will be introduced and explained in real-life context during the tour: ingestion, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cells, automation, algorithm, input, processing, output, sensor, quality control, computer vision, human-computer interaction.

See the Teacher Toolkit to learn more.

The Innovations in Healthcare: Amazon Pharmacy tour is designed to take 40 minutes (~1 class period).

We recommend the tour for any grade 4 and above. The tour includes content accessible to each grade and teachers can use the Teacher Toolkit to adjust learning how they see fit.

If you teach a grade below 4th, please preview the tour to determine fit with your students.

The tour, and all materials included in the accompanying Teacher Toolkit, are provided to teachers at no cost. You do not need a paid Kahoot! account to take the tour - sign up for a free teacher account on Kahoot! or utilize the solo play links on our website to play completely free.

We do not collect personal student information on either tour. If a teacher does have a Kahoot! accounts, they can assign the tour to their students to track their students’ progress, but individuals’ information is not shared with Amazon. During the tour, students will answer poll questions about their intent to persist in careers in STEM and their overall satisfaction with the tour. These questions are multiple choice and do not collect any PII from students.

Yes, absolutely. Students can also play the Kahoot! version of the tour on their own.

Please reach out to afe-contact@amazon.com for any questions.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Videos are embedded from YouTube, and if blocked by a firewall, will appear as black screens or not play. If your school has YouTube blocked, please have them whitelist the links to each video in the tour.