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- 9th - 12th
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Students develop an action plan in collaborative groups addressing a new disease. This activity provides 3 roles for student participation: scientists, public health officials and community leaders. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students focus on the spatial diffusion of the influenza (flu) pandemic of 1918-19. Spatial diffusion is the geographic spread of ideas, innovations, or phenomena (such as disease). Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students work together to complete a simulation on infectious diseases. They determine which concepts affect a disease more. They complete discussion questions as well. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students are introduced to genetics along with genetic diseases and heredity. In groups, they complete a Punnett Square to determine the dominant and recessive genes. After viewing diagrams, they identify the characteristics of DNA and demonstrate the processes of Meiosis and Mitosis. To end the lesson, they discover the factors that cause genes to mutate. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore infectious diseases. They analyze the effect of a disease on the community. Students develop a public health policy that addresses the containment of the epidemic. Students create a policy and present findings as part of a pubic health task force member. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students research industries that contribute to sanitation and pollution problems. They investigate the direct result of unhygienic practices including disease outbreaks or specific illnesses. They create a Power Point presentation addressing pollution and disease problems during the American Industrial Period. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore how the study of diseases and epidemics can be comprehended from a mathematical perspective. They investigate issues addressed of finite geometric series, calculating threshold values, and statistical models of the spread of disease. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the nervous system. In groups, they research the relationship between disease and injury and how it affects the nervous system. To end the lesson, they present their findings to the class and create a poster. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students research the technological development of one medical tool from the 17th, 18th or early 19th centuries. They trace the advancement of the tool to its comtemporary medical tool. They research the communicable disease the tool helps cure and design a timeline related to their tool. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students discuss how parasitic pathogens infect a host. They define vector. Students draw a diagram to show the life cycle of pathogens. They differentiate and name examples of disease for viral, bacterial, protist and fungal cells. Full Review »
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