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Viral Invaders
Students conduct a critical investigation of the West Nile Virus. They assess the relationship between the sources of information and their credibility. Students use their findings to create a public health campaign about the virus.
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How Quickly Disease Spreads
Students demonstrate how quickly disease spreads and the importance of protective measures with communicable diseases. They examine past epidemics such as the Bubonic Plague and make predictions about future epidemics.They compare and...
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Infectious Disease Detectives
Students participate in a simulation of how diseases are transmitted. Each student holds a test tube, with only one containing the "disease" while the others have water. They move around the room until told to stop. Using droppers to...
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Making Hard Decisions
Students examine proposals to combat AIDS, VRSA, and measles and recommend one that they could support. They investigate how people can have very different feelings about such proposals.
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Immune System: The Master of Self-Defense
Students examine the role of the immune system in the human body. They conduct a hand-washing experiment, answer questions while viewing videos, discuss key vocabulary, draw and label illustrations, and observe demonstrations and record...
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Pandemic
Students compare and contrast the conditions of the 1918 influenza outbreak with those of today. They try to identify prevention strategies for infectious diseases.
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Epidemic, Plague, and Infection
Students recognize disease vectors (pathways) and risk factors for infectious diseases.
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It Might Come in Handy
Students explore the latest study on routine hand washing practices. They research some of the possible communicable diseases that can be transmitted by having lax hygiene.
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HEALTH AND BEHAVIORAL STUDIES
Students select a country in South Africa and writes a one-page report on the economic and social issues facing that country, offering suggestions as to how the conditions of poverty and HIV/AIDS.
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Diseases Without Borders
Young scholars use the European Union's struggle with Mad Cow Disease as a starting point to study the spread of infectious diseases across geographical boundaries.
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Straining to Understand Viruses
Learners examine the differences among the strains of deadly viruses and create research-based visual displays about the origins of different strains, transmission, symptoms, treatments and historic impact of specific viruses.
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Ill At Ease
Students research infectious diseases, focusing on what scientists and journalists currently do and do not know about each one. They act as scientists or journalists as they find out more about a particular infectious disease.
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Africa Falls Prey to H.I.V.
Students use maps, statistics, and written texts to recognize the H.I.V. explosion in Africa.
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Epidemic Proportions
Students research epidemics that have devastated world population at various points in history. They share and calculate statistics obtained in their research and develop graphs comparing and contrasting how different epidemics affect...
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Some Similarities Between the Spread of an Infectious Disease and Population Growth
Students compare and contrast the spread of infectious diseases and population growth. In this biology lesson, students identify the exponential growth pattern of spreading diseases. They relate this to HIV infection and AIDS.
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AIDS TODAY
Students study the AIDS epidemic. In this health policy lesson plan students divide into groups and research the Internet to obtain information on AIDS.
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Nelson's Dream
Students explore fatal diseases by researching Africa. In this AIDS lesson, students read fictional stories about African men and women who are infected with AIDS and very sick. Students define several disease related vocabulary terms...
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Researching Infectious Diseases
In this researching infectious diseases worksheet, students write a report on one of the infectious diseases listed, using the web links for research, then answering 13 short answer questions about it.
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How to be a Healthy Person
Learners discuss their health and diseases. For this health lesson, students discover the causes of diseases and the difference between infectious and non-infectious diseases. They find ways to boost their immune system.
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Microbe Multiplication Magic
Students discover how microbes multiply. In this infectious disease lesson, students calculate the growth of bacteria in various environments. Students determine the role that the environment plays in the spread of infectious disease.
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Understanding the Epidemiologic Triangle through Infectious Disease
Students examine the epidemiologic triangle. In this disease lesson, students discuss infectious disease as they study how they spread and discover their families' experiences with them. Students research Internet sites to complete...
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Epidemic, Plague, and Infection
Young scholars investigate the illness borne in concentration camps. In this Holocaust lesson, students participate in a simulation that requires them to consider how ailments became epidemics in concentration camps.
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The Nature of Disease
In this diseases worksheet, students will learn about infectious diseases including what causes a diseases and how they are spread. Students will also review symptoms of disease, patterns of diseases, and treating diseases. This...
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Analyzing the S-I-R Model
In this SIR model activity, students analyze a real life problem using the SIR method. They explore given facts and determine the threshold value for an epidemic, the sequence for the recovery period, and the effect on the model from a...