5wk Unit: Epidemiology
Class: Physiology Level: HS, mixed, no previous science experience
It’s not perfect, but in light of current global events, I thought even the agendas might help others with planning. It ends with cholera and ebola.
Week 1: Viruses & Bacteria
Agenda
1A - Doctor-patient time graphs (from med school classes; discuss scientific evidence-inference nature of diagnosis & differential diagnoses)
1B - What’s Wrong With Allison? (group activity I found online; I taped questions onto envelopes and put answers inside for Ss to arrange & select)
get 3 differential diagnoses for 5 questions selected from 20; simulates data-gathering at a medical appt
C - Virus v. Bacteria
Flu Attack! (video & discussion)
Graph Analysis compare/contrast virus & bacterial growth
Design triage system to help identify illnesses based on information so far
D - Types of Pathogen Growth
Model Virus vs. Bacteria (build)
Compare/Contrast lysogenic v. lytic (video & reading)
E - Lymphatic System & Responses
Lecture Notes: Lymphatic System
CER about lymphatic system
posters about diseases connected to lymphatic system response
F - revise triage system based on type of growth
Predict lysogenic v. lytic growth
Revise triage system using new information
Week 2: Spreading the Disease
Agenda
2A Do Now: Costs of anti-vaxxing
B: Identifying symptoms of bacteria, viruses, and how they spread
Activity: Simulating epidemiology & rate of spread
Video Notes: Bacteria
Video Notes: Strep Throat & Cavities
Video Notes: Viruses
C: Connect epidemiological triangle to lysogenic/lytic growth
Do Now: Epidemiological Triangle
Graph & explain data for spread of disease in terms of bacteria v. virus/lysogenic vs. lytic
Read & Answer to review: Epidemiological triangle
D: Historical epidemics & diseases
Lecture notes: Spread of different diseases through time
2E Posters: historical epidemics & responses (pandemic, Spanish flu, measles, dengue fever, smallpox, polio, etc.)
2F Exit Ticket: Challenges for predicting growth, spread, rate, intensity of disease
Week 3. Case Study: Cholera
Agenda
3A Osmosis Review
Do Now: Can humans survive by drinking salt water?
Naked Egg-speriment review: predict hypotonic, hypertonic, isotonic
discuss & watch Video: How do you use osmosis to cure a sore throat?
discuss & watch Video: Why do contacts need saline?
Osmosis card sort review
3A Webquest Debate: WHO Investigation (cholera introduction)
3B-C Case Study: Surviving a Cholera Epidemic (adapted Shannon Muskopf)
When is it appropriate to force a cure on a population?
Rubric for Final Essay: Diagnosing Cholera
Gallery Walk: Symptoms, treatment, socio-cultural response, etc.
3C Graph & statistics for cholera → apply epidemiological analysis & treatment, viral, bacterial, etc.
Video analysis & discussion: Red Cross video explaining cholera, discuss what works & doesn’t
3D: PSA: create an updated cholera video for San Francisco about cholera
3F: Exit Ticket:
1. Is cholera viral or bacterial? How do you know?
2. When do the symptoms of cholera become life-threatening?
3. What treatments are available for cholera and why do they work?
3F: Debate (WHO): cholera outbreak
Week 4-5. Case Study & Final Showcase: Ebola
Agenda
A: Triaging spread
Based on population, statistics, questions about potential spread
NME? Of ebola & necessity of triage
Review epidemiology triangle
B: The Hot Zone of Ebola
Jigsaw: video from red cross
Reading: hot zone
Lecture: epidemiology, etiology, costs and responses
C: Why is Ebola difficult to treat?
Evaluate what main threatening problems of ebola are
What treatments are available
Why is ebola difficult to treat?
Each group reports on one type of treatment or response
D: How do we respond to ebola?
Videos for differential responses from the ground, news reports, interviews, etc. (whatever latest youtube videos are concerning the crisis)
Video: Burial Boys
Video: Sierra Leone response to ebola
Jigsaw: Ebola 101 - In the News
Evaluate & analyze why response is different in different countries
Multilingual ebola symptom posters
E : Ebola in the US? Epidemiology in the US?
compare responses between ebola & vaccination crisis in the US
What would happen in the US for ebola?
Misinformation: autism-vaccines hoax vs. ebola vectors
4E Do Now Reading Headline: Dr. Anthony Fauci: Risks From Vaccines Are “Almost Nonmeasurable”
F: Differential responses in different parts of Africa due to socioeconomic & infrastructure factors
Firebombing, Medicins sans frontieres
why/why not intervene?
Legal &* financial questions
SUMMATIVE: design a plan for the US in case of Ebola
Week 5 Agenda
5A Do now: ppe costs
Intro: Ebola design project
What are examples of ppe at which level
Videos and movie examples of ppe
What’s the same
What’s different
prewriting
Portray one person or organization affected by ebola in an art project
Showcase expression and connect science to human responses
Must be able to identify disease, symptoms, responses, personal reactions, and the future
Share and educate about different parties affected
Present & evaluate artistic project