Infectious Disease
Bird Flu Today Public Awareness Campaign - Teacher’s Section
 This webquest will address the following National Science Education Standards for grades 9-12.
Content Standard A – Science as Inquiry
“All students should develop understandings about scientific inquiry.”
“All students should think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations”
Students critically analyze the potential H5N1 to become a pandemic by evolving into a disease transmittable between humans and gain a thorough understanding of the scientific process.. They engage in the same process the scientific community is currently involved in.
Content Standard C – Life Science
“All students should develop an understanding of the cell, of the molecular basis of heredity, and of biological evolution.”
By looking at the relationship between microbial evolution, human immunity, and viral and human cells, students will gain an understanding of how natural selection is a driving force for the way living organisms respond to changes in the environment.
Content Standard E – Science and Technology
“All students should develop understandings about science and technology.”
As students are engaged in the epidemiological process, they gain an understanding of how science has influenced technological approaches to problems in both medicine and public health.
Content Standard F - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
“All students should develop an understanding of personal and community health, and population growth.”
“All students should develop an understanding of science and technology in local, national, and global challenges.”
Students are engaged in making connections between the impacts of emerging infectious diseases on local and global health. They will analyze data and build their own interpretations for a plausible national response to a potential H5N1 pandemic.
Content Standard G – History and Nature of Science
“All students should develop an understanding of science as a human endeavor and of the nature of scientific knowledge.”
As students become actively involved in a simulated public health study, they make connections between the scientific study process and national policy. They do so by gaining an understanding of viruses, immunity, and public health and relating them to national policy and awareness initiatives for public protection.
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