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Cooties! Learning How Disease Spreads
Students will learn about immunity, the incubation periods of particular diseases, and how diseases are contracted through viral and bacterium infections.
Objectives
- Students will define the term immunity.
- Students will describe how disease can be prevented including incubation periods for common diseases.
- Students will describe how common viral and bacterium related diseases are contracted.
Procedure
- Students are provided urlŐs to appropriate internet sites (i.e., Quia.com ) and investigate immunity, incubation periods, and how common diseases are contracted.
- Then students use Keynote presentation software to develop a presentation on their findings.
- Students use Notetaker software to record notes to take home for study.
Sunshine State Standards
- HE.A.1.4.1
- HE.B.1.4.2
- SC.F.1.4.1
- SC.H.3.4.6
NETS Profiles for Technology Literate Students
- Identify capabilities and limitations of contemporary and emerging technology resources and assess the potential of these systems and services to address personal, lifelong learning, and workplace needs.
- Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publication, communication, and productivity.
- Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning.
Materials
- Laptops
- Internet access
- Notetaker software
- Keynote presentation software
- Quia.com
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