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Teaching Activities About Infectious Diseases

This collection highlights teaching activities, hands-on lessons, and online simulations we found on the web that can help students learn about infectious diseases . They are created by science educators and partner education organizations. Just as all our original content is free, we only recommend external resources that are free for teachers.

1. Vaccines Lessons

This collection of lessons is offered by the Vaccine Makers Project (VMP), an infectious diseases research center founded in October 2000 and associated with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Lessons are organized by grade level: two elementary school lessons, four middle school lessons, and four high school units comprising 12 total lessons. Lessons cover bacteria and viruses, vaccines, vaccinations, the immune system, and case studies for all ages.

Image from VMP

• Collection : web page
• Topic : diseases, immune system, vaccines
• Level : elementary school , middle school , high school

2. Epidemiology Case Study

This case study is offered by BioInteractive , part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ( HHMI ). The comprehensive guide includes educator materials, student readings, and student handouts; it complements a video on Nipah virus spread in Malaysian bats. In this lesson, students use real-world data to examine the spread of the Nipah Virus.

Image from BioInteractive

• Activity : web page
• Topic : viruses, pathogens, disease, epidemiology, immunity
• Level : high school

3. Interactive Health History Timeline

This activity is offered by VaccinesWork , a digital platform run by journalists and hosted by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (founded in 2000). This tool offers students an interactive “whistlestop tour through the story of medicine, vaccination, and humanity’s age-old battle against disease.”

Image from VaccinesWork

• Topic : global health, history, disease, vaccines

4. Catching Infections Case Study

This activity is offered by BioEd Online , a digital collection of educational resources developed by Baylor School of Medicine’s Center for Educational Outreach . This Center has its origins in a 1972 partnership with the Houston (Texas) Independent School District that created “the nation’s first standalone health professions high school.” It has since expanded to include K-8 curriculum. In this middle-grades activity, students use handouts, a slide deck, and a video to explore how infections happen and what it actually means to catch an infection.

Image from BioEd Online

• Topic : bacteria, virus, immune system
• Level : middle school

5. Viral Replication Game

This activity is offered by Straight From a Scientist ( SFS ), a website run by real scientists with the intent of sharing the latest in research about the mind and body via games, podcasts, articles, and a networking option for scientists. This game was published in December 2020 to explore viral replication. Before game-play, the creators narrate a lesson on viral replication with great visuals, showing how COVID-19 infects cells.

Image from SFS

• Topic : infection, RNA, DNA, viral replication
• Level : middle school, high school

6. Ebola Epidemic Activity

This activity is offered by BioInteractive , affiliated with HHMI . Students analyze representations of Ebola virus infections and make claims about the way the virus evolved and spread. The activity includes a video and several supplemental handouts in both English and Spanish translations.

• Topic : adaptation, DNA sequence, evolution, mutation, outbreak, public health

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• October 23, 2023

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Which are the best websites to use?

Before typing your topic into Google and digging through millions of search results, you might want to start here:

• American Academy of Asthma Allergy and Immunology Information about the diagnosis and treatment of asthma.
• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America Lots of general information about Asthma.
• American Diabetes Association Lots of information about diabetes prevention and treatment.
• American Heart Association National organization that provides information about heart disease and treatment.
• American Lung Association National organization that provides information about lung disease and treatment.
• American Red Cross Look here for information about CPR.
• American Society of Hematology Information about blood diseases and treatment.
• American Cancer Society Home site for the national organization.
• National Cancer Institute Cancer information from the National Institutes of Health.
• Ebola Information on the Ebola virus from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Ebola Virus and Marburg Virus Information from the Mayo Clinic.
• Ebola Virus Disease Information on diagnosis and treatment from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Ebola Virus Disease Fact sheet, from the World Health Organization.
• Ebola Virus Infection FAQ Background information and current news, from WebMD.
• Ebola: the Race for Drugs and Vaccines Information on current treatments, from the BBC.

Heart disease

• Heart Disease - NIH Choose from the list of various heart ailments, or use the search bar.
• Heart Disease Health Center Information about a variety of heart conditions. Type your topic into the search bar at the top of the page.
• History of Heart Disease Overview information from Healthline.
• Learn CPR Online CPR instruction from the University of Washington Medical School.
• National Heart Lung and Blood Institute An A-Z index provides access to easily understood information about a variety of diseases and ailments.
• National Hemophilia Foundation Information from the national organization.
• National Marfan Foundation Information on diagnosis and treatment from the national organization.
• Rare Coagluation Disorders Resource Room This site has a lot of information on clotting disorders.

Sickle cell disease

• Brief History of Sickle Cell Disease A research paper written by a university professor.
• Transposition of the Great Vessels Information on this congenital defect from the National Institutes of Health.

Thalassemia

• Alpha Thalassemia Easy to read information from KidsHealth.
• Cooley's Anemia Foundation This organization promotes research into the treatment of thalassemia.
• Thalassemia Information from the Centers for Disease Control.
• Thalassemia International Foundation An organization that supports thalassemia research.

Disease Reference Sites

• Diseases and Conditions (CDC) An index of diseases and treatment, from the Centers for Disease Control.
• KidsHealth Information about many illnesses and conditions, in easy-to-understand language.
• Mayo Clinic: Diseases and Conditions Index of medical conditions from the Mayo Clinic.
• Medline Plus Medical information from the National Institutes of Health.
• Times Health Guide Current news and background information on a variety of health topics, from the New York Times.

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• What’s included? In-depth overview articles, often with links to supporting primary source materials. Also includes a world atlas with statistical information on individual countries plus the ability to compare any two countries.
• What’s included? Tertiary, secondary and primary source material in the areas of health and wellness.
• What’s included? This large reference encyclopedia is available in several reading levels, and also includes a Spanish language version.

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The Great Diseases: Bringing Biomedical Science to the High School Classroom

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The goal of the Great Diseases curriculum is to engage high school students with the science behind their real world experiences. To do this, Tufts scientists and Boston Public School (BPS) teachers have collaborated to bring together the content knowledge and pedagogical skill needed to design such a curriculum. Each module consists of a 6-week course addressing topics related to a specific disease.

• Infectious Disease
• Neurological Disorders
• Metabolic Disease

Curriculum materials for each module include a teacher primer; teacher lesson plans, with minute-by-minute guidance each lesson; classroom materials for each lesson, generally including a powerpoint slide deck with embedded videos, handouts, activity materials, worksheets, and answer keys; and unit assessments. To prevent student access to assessments and the like, teacher curriculum material downloads are password-locked; request access by filling out the form to the right or  contact us  for a login.

We offer free module-specific teaching support upon request.  Connect with a scientist partner  for Just-In-Time support, and/or browse our  professional development offerings  for  online courses and  in-person workshops .

The  student site  for Great Diseases offers students immediate access to student workbook readings for each module, as well as a searchable glossary, links to recommended news items, related multimedia, and more.

In 2014 most job growth is occurring in fields that require the ability to think analytically and solve problems about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) topics, particularly life sciences and IT, while 90% of those life science jobs are in health-related fields The same analytic and evaluative skills required to participate in the life science-health workforce are required for managing one’s health care. Unfortunately US adults lack these capacities, so many STEM jobs in these fields go unfilled and more than 45% of the US population, particularly from underserved communities cannot manage their own health care effectively.

It is clearly critical to educate young people in these skills, and high school, which is the last place entire cohorts of the US population gather to learn together, is an obvious venue. In response we have partnered with teachers to develop a curriculum ‘The Great Diseases’ focused on diseases of global significance targeted to 10th-12 th graders. No curriculum can be successful unless teachers have the skills to teach it, so we have also developed a professional development program in which scientists mentor teachers how to translate the science content of the curriculum into their classrooms. Teachers who participated were able to significantly increase student engagement and analytical and problem-solving abilities, as well as improve their confidence in learning about this kind of material – a critical element of health literacy. Importantly these gains occurred in a large number of diverse schools and were independent of teacher and also the gender and ethnicity of their students.

In this project we aim to capitalize on the partnerships and evaluation tools we have used successfully to create the curriculum and professional development model, to expand the scope of the curriculum by creating new activities more directly focused on the critical thinking skills we want to foster, and by expanding into new target audiences.

We will therefore accomplish the following goals:

• We will promote the analytical skills required for workforce preparation and health care management by developing three extensions to the core GD curriculum that will help teachers: address complex topic; stimulate claims evaluation related to health science research and identify valid new material they can incorporate into lessons to keep their curriculum current.
• We will expand dissemination of the curriculum to pre-service teachers in collaboration with Bridgewater State University, the major provider of STEM and health education in Massachusetts by developing graduate level courses that will contextualize the content to classroom practice.
• We will promote dissemination of the curriculum to in-service teachers nationwide by combining the curriculum and mentorship into a web-based course that combines online learning and virtual interactions between teachers and mentors. Then, in collaboration with Teach for America we will provide the course to teachers who work in challenging environments in urban or rural areas.
• We will evaluate the effectiveness of the program as well as knowledge gains and critical thinking abilities in program participants (teachers and their students).

The proposed project is significant because it provide teachers with the skills to engage students and improve their abilities to think analytically about key issues in health-related science, thereby fostering workforce preparation and health literacy.

The proposed project is innovative because The Great Diseases program provides a model for how interactions between medical school scientists and teachers can influence curriculum and teacher development. It is also innovative because combining the curriculum and mentorship program into a web-based resource removes barriers can be disseminated nationwide.

Dissemination Strategies

Professional development for pre-service and in-service teachers in collaboration with schools of Education at Bridgewater State University, MA; Lesley University, MA; Teach for America; and Math for America. Materials available via website.

Project Evaluation(s)

Program evaluation by Russell Faux, Ed.D., Davis Square Associates, 119 College Ave, Ste 41, Somerville MA.

Resources for Sharing

• Full range of curricular materials available via website (http://sites.tufts.edu/greatdiseases/).
• Training via professional development courses and on-line (see project website).
• Internships available for undergraduates and graduate students who are (a) science education students wishing to gain experience in curriculum development (b) scientists wishing to gain experience in science education.

Additional Information

• Publications
• Jacque B, et al. , (2013). The Great Diseases Project: A partnership between Tufts Medical School and the Boston Public Schools to bring cutting edge biomedical sciences into the high school classroom. Acad. Med. 88: 620-625. PMCID: PMC4281152.
• Meiri KF, Jacque B, and Wyss JM. (2013) Putting Health Science into Health Education. Science . 341(6142): p. 128. DOI: 10.1126/science.341.6142.128-a. PMID: 23846889.
• Malanson K, Jacque B, and Meiri, KF. (2014) Modeling for Fidelity: Virtual mentorship by scientists fosters teacher self-efficacy and promotes implementation of novel high school biomedical curricula. PloS One . 9(12): e114929. PMCID: 4281152. Epub 2014 Dec 31.
• Jacque B, Koch-Weser S, Faux R, and Meiri KF. (2016). Addressing health literacy challenges with a cutting-edge Infectious Disease curriculum for the high school biology classroom.  Health Education and Behavior 2016 Feb;43(1):43–53. doi: 10.1177/1090198115596163. Epub 2015 Jul 20.

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High school biology and health science teachers; graduate students; high school students

Subjects Addressed

Infectious disease, metabolic disease. neurological disorders, cancer, decoding primary biomedical literature

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• Meiri, Karina, PhD Role: PI / Project Leader Phone: 617-636-2445 Fax: 617-636-6536 Email: karina.meiri@tufts.edu
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