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- 4th
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Students discover how communicable diseases are spread. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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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. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students use Palms, or handheld computers, and the Cooties software to enact the transmission of communicable diseases. They discuss incubation and immunity and collect and interpret data and figure out who was the "carrier "of a "disease." Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students take a virtual tour of their bodies circulatory system. They also reserach communicable and non-communicable diseases. They create a final presentation to be shared with the class. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students discuss communicable and non-communicable diseases, and how germs travel from person to person through the air, on objects, in body fluids, and on animals and insects. They take a short quiz. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students experiment to discover how certain viruses spread through a population. They simulate the spread of a communicable disease by analyzing data to identify the person who was originally infected. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in a simulation game to experience the societal effects of the Black Plague during the Medieval Period. Information garnered during the game is used to discuss the current state of communicable diseases in our world faces today and how we deal with their containment. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students investigate the history of disease prevention and the pioneers in the field. They study the major childhood diseases and determine the state of their own immunization record. They research communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and how both are transmitted. 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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- 8th
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Students play the "communicable disease" game using Heads-Up, 7-Up. They discuss and review the communicable diseases (STDs & AIDS). Students place their heads down on the desk, the teacher serves as the disease and begin to spread "it" to two students. They are asked to stand up if they have the disease. Students define the terms communicable vs. non-communicable. Full Review »
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