WEBQUEST

Bird Flu Today Public Awareness Campaign - Teacher’s Section

Alternate Activities

There are several activities that can also be used to extend the webquest:

1. NIH Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases; Activity 4: Protecting the Herd - This activity could serve as a great introduction to the webquest. By using cards to represent immunity and lack thereof, students simulate the spread of a disease through a population that has no vaccinations and then through a population that has a 50% vaccination rate. They then discuss how vaccinations impact public health.

http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/Diseases/guide/
activity4-1.htm

2. Rx for Survival: Delivering the Goods - In this activity, students will be critically assessing their response to the spread of a possible flu and the impacts it has regionally and globally. This would be a great follow-up activity to the webquest to give students a practical global perspective about public health concerns in developing nations.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/
teachers/pdf/rx_guide_deliveringgoods.pdf

3. BAM! Hand Washing Experiment - Students learn about the importance of maintaining proper hygiene in order to decrease the risk of getting ill. Students will test how effectively they wash their hands by testing for the presence of microbes This activity can serve as a public health link for the webquest emphasizing the value of good hygiene.

http://www.bam.gov/teachers/epidemiology_hand_wash.html

4. Tufts Institute: Poliomyelitis: The Era of Fear - This is cross-curricular unit that looks at the poliovirus and how it impacted society before a vaccine was developed. It highlights Franklin D. Roosevelt and his own struggle with polio. Students can build a virus, chart out differences in sizes of viruses, and do several critical analysis activities addressing public health concerns related to polio, among other activities.

http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/products/lessons/pdf/docs/
activities/polio.pdf