All Standards provided below are in Adobe Acrobat format:
Instructional Objectives |
Students will apply science process skills by role-playing different careers in the "discovery to control" of a new disease. |
Students will be able to describe how and why scientists collaborate in the identification, detection, and treatment of a disease. |
Students will be able to recognize the role that animals play in disease transmission to humans. |
Students will know what clinical signs are and why they need to be observed in animals. |
Students will understand what a quarantine is and its purpose. |
Students will be able to identify a reservoir, vector, and host in a disease transmission cycle diagram. |
Students will be able to recognize the role of a veterinarian in investigating a disease outbreak. |
Instructional Objectives |
Students will apply science process skills by role-playing different careers in the "discovery to control" of a new disease. |
Students will be able to describe how and why scientists collaborate in the identification, detection, and treatment of a disease. |
Students will be able to apply a case definition to determine the number of people affected by a disease. |
Students will be able to identify the occurrence of an outbreak by analyzing and interpreting a graph. |
Students will know what a case control study is. |
Students will be able to calculate and compare exposure odds ratios to determine the source of an outbreak. |
Students will be able to recognize the role of epidemiologists in investigating a disease outbreak. |
Instructional Objectives |
Students will apply science process skills by role-playing different careers in the "discovery to control" of a new disease. |
Students will be able to describe how and why scientists collaborate in the identification, detection, and treatment of a disease. |
Students will be able to recognize the techniques that are used to identify viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi in a laboratory. |
Students will be able to recognize techniques that are used in a laboratory to identify an unknown virus. |
Students will know that a viral microarray is used to identify an unknown virus by comparing its nucleic acid to the nucleic acids from known viruses. |
Students will know that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used to make copies of nucleic acid sequences. |
Students will be able to recognize the role of microbiologists in investigating a disease outbreak. |