Help! I Don't Want to Get Sick

Driving Question
How can we stop the spread of infectious disease?

Products and Performances
Students will work with classmates to:
1. Design and carry out a scientific investigation on bacteria and bacterial growth
2. Collect and record information regarding infectious diseases (viral & bacterial)
3. Interview a local health/medical practitioner
4. Create a PSA focusing on infectious disease prevention
5. Publish their PSA on the web—either submission to “competition” site (i.e. http://www.ivieawards.org/categories/psa/psa.html) or publishing on YouTube or other sites
Each student will be expected to:
1. Complete the guided research on infectious diseases (viral & bacterial)
2. Keep an individual “lab notebook” of infectious disease information
3. Create a “Bacterial/Virus Wanted Poster”
4. Complete the Unit Test

Daily Plans
Day 1
Entry Event
•Show students a “gross” video/pictures/story that relates to what is “clean” and “dirty.” (e.g. a person kissing their dog, eating food off the floor, picking his nose)
•Play a short “What would you do for money?” game that involves questions about licking the floor, trading gum, licking their shoe, doorknob, etc.
•Show a video of a news story about bacteria on cell phones.
Group Discussion Questions:
•What is “dirty”?
•What makes us sick?
•Where (on what items in our everyday lives) are bacteria and viruses most concentrated?
•How can we prevent illness?
Group Work
•Small group work on designing “Bacteria Lab” where students hypothesize about areas at school that contain more or less bacteria.

Day 2
Small group work on collecting samples for Bacteria Lab
Mini lesson on virus and bacteria survival needs

Day 3
Mini lesson on virus and bacteria identification
Begin “Infectious Disease Webquest” activity using the netbooks

Day 4
Mini lesson on virus and bacteria control
Continue “Infectious Disease Webquest” activity using the netbooks

Day 5
Small group work on Bacteria Lab
Work time for Virus and Bacteria Wanted Posters using the netbooks

Day 6
Mini lesson on the Immune System
Watch “Your Magic Doctor” video followed by class discussion

Day 7
Group “tour” activity of the Bacteria Wanted Posters

Day 8
Mini lesson on and introduction to PSAs and to the FlipCameras
Group discussion regarding PSAs and brain-storming questions for our guest speaker (post on Google Docs)

Day 9
Unit test on Viruses and Bacteria

Day 10
Guest speaker about infectious diseases (local infectious disease expert—physician, nurse, lab tech, etc…)

Day 11
Small group work on PSAs (research time with netbooks and brainstorming/storyboarding)

Day 12
Small group work on PSA (research, rough draft, recording)

Day 13
Wrap up small group work on PSA (recording and publishing)
Instructions for how to post to PSA “competition” site (similar to http://www.ivieawards.org/)or publishing on YouTube or other site

Day 14
Group share time of PSAs

Day 15
Self and peer evaluations
Class debriefing and processing