© 2008 Hall of Health. Children’s Hospital & Research Center, Oakland; Health & Biomedical Science for a Diverse Community. Students better understand communicable diseases as they create models of germs, act out the response of the immune system, watch germs spread, solve epidemiological mysteries, and test methods for killing germs.

SAFER·HEALTHIER·PEOPLE™, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services. Excellence in Curriculum Innovation through Teaching Epidemiology and the Science of Public Health (EXCITE). By stepping into the role of a public health officer, students learn about epidemiology and get an overview of the disease transmission cycle. A guide for Science Olympiad participants describes the steps of an outbreak investigation and how epidemiologists evaluate and test hypotheses.

SAFER·HEALTHIER·PEOPLE™, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services. Through an inquiry-based activity, students demonstrate how germs spread. Then, through a WebQuest, students determine the abundance and types of microbes around them.

© 2004 Montclair State University. Five instructional modules explore specific health-related issues through the science of epidemiology. The modules prepare students to make personal and collective evidence-based health-related decisions. Module 1 consists of six investigations that explore how diseases are geographically distributed. Module 2 consists of ten investigations that explore diseases and their causes.

© 2011 Discovery Education. Students discover how an infectious disease can spread; they then create a plan to contain it.

© 2009 Andrea Liatis, Emory University and Amanda Lockhart, Decatur High School. Creating Active Student Engagement in the Sciences (CASES Online), Emory University. After reading short scenes aloud, students discuss their observations about bacterial and viral infections and the role of antibiotics in fighting disease. They research the structures and functions of viruses and bacteria as well as the modes of transmission, and they present their findings to the class. Used with permission.

© 2004-2011 Baylor College of Medicine. Through a series of inquiry-based lessons, students explore the world of microorganisms. They learn that microbes can be bacteria, fungi, protists, or viruses, and they create scale models to compare microbes’ relative sizes. Using evidence to determine whether a patient has a cold, flu, or strep infection, students discover the differences between bacterial and viral infections; they explore modes of transmission for infamous diseases, and they are introduced to the human immune system.

© 2006-2011 Patrick McKenzie. Bingo cards feature the names of viruses. Teachers call out the names of viruses, or, for more challenge, a clue to the virus.