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Paths of Pathogens: Take Charge of that Petting Zoo!

February 27, 2018 By Lyn Fairchild Hawks Leave a Comment

Lesson Summary

This post provides video and other materials for teaching a lesson on pathogen paths and public health. This lesson is excerpted from an eight-lesson unit on disease, medicine, and epidemiology for gifted elementary and middle school students. This activity is the precursor to students tackling a medical mystery of illness at the State Fair. While the videos are pitched to gifted elementary and middle school students, the lesson structure and concepts can be adapted for younger or older students.

Head to the TIP Curriculum Vault to view all 8 lessons of Discovering Science and Medicine: Epidemiology, Disease, and Outbreak.

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Lesson Content:

Time: 60 minutes and homework time
Supplies: three Duke TIP videos and interactive image tool or poster/brochure supplies
Duke TIP Paths of Pathogens Lesson Plan
Duke TIP Public Health Message Rubric

Pathogens

Path of Pathogens

Petting Zoo

About Lyn Fairchild Hawks

Lyn Fairchild Hawks currently serves as Director for Curriculum and Instruction for Duke TIP’s distance learning programs, where she supervises teachers and designs curricula and online student benefits. A long-time teacher, Lyn has published curricula with TIP, NCTE, Chicago Review Press, and ASCD. She is author of Teaching Julius Caesar: A Differentiated Approach and coauthor of Teaching Romeo and Juliet: A Differentiated Approach and The Compassionate Classroom: Lessons that Nurture Wisdom and Empathy. She is also an author of the young-adult novel, How Wendy Redbird Dancing Survived the Dark Ages of Nought, for high school students, and coauthor of the graphic novella, Minerda, for middle grade students. She is represented by Tara Gelsomino of One Track Literary Agency.

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