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- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students set personal health goals for preventing illness, identify different pathogens and explain how the body protects itself from pathogens, discuss ways in which prevention and transmission of disease are affected by individual behaviors. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students discover how communicable diseases are spread. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students, in groups, rotate to several stations around the room, in which question cards, regarding disease prevention, have be assigned. Groups visit each station, discuss and record their answer to the question and move to the next station/question. 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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- 3rd - 5th
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Students determine how communicable diseases are spread by participating in a role-play activity. They discuss how colds are transmitted and determine whether they were affected during the role-play activity. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students watch and discuss the "Speak My Name" video about AIDS awareness. They draw and color a 4 x 4 quilt square illustrating the story of a personal experience. As a class they combine the squares into one quilt. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students get into groups and brainstorm ways to obtain physical activity and different healthy foods to eat. They then develop and write and individual plan for healthy living and commit to enforcing their plan for a minimum of one week, recording their activity. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students watch a video and read an article about the West Nile virus. They discuss their current knowledge of this disease. Students discuss reasons wearing long sleeved shirts and pants could help prevent infection. Students give examples of open containers in the yard that may provide places for mosquitoes to lay eggs. 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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- 7th - 9th
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Students research the diseases which are present in their family history. Using the internet, they research the diseases and identify the ways to prevent them. To end the lesson, they share their findings with the class in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. Full Review »
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