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Pandemic
Young scientists use exponential growth and logarithms to model how a virus spreads through a population. Pupils watch a news clip about the 2012 outbreak of Ebola. Scholars then manipulate inactive graphs to see how various factors...
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How Germs Spread
Students conduct a test to help them visualize the spread of
germs. They identify that a pandemic is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads across a large region or even worldwide. Finally, students state...
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Viruses: Tiny But Deadly
In this viruses worksheet, students read given information about the effect of viruses on people throughout history. Students create a bar graph comparing the viruses and answer seven questions based on the information they have learned.
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Intro to Biology Chapters 1 & 2 Practice Test
Don't be fooled by the title - this biology quiz could serve as an AP biology or college-level biology quiz. Some of the molecules represented may be difficult to identify without seeing the textbook from which this is based. It could...
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A Shot in the Dark?
Students ask and answer their own questions about smallpox and the smallpox vaccine. They create outlines for an informative CD-ROM that could be distributed to health care professionals.
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Store to Table: Food Safety (Senior, other)
Students explore their role as food preparation specialists in the prevention of foodborne illness.
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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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Pandemics
Learners develop an awareness of the effect of pandemics and acquire knowledge to prevent a pandemic from spreading. In this pandemics lesson plan, students build research skills using a variety of sources. Learners investigate...