Doctors as Detectives In this lesson, students consider the investigative and detective work that goes into disease control.. http: //nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/2...
Virus Encounters Students work in groups to research specific viruses and create multimedia presentations to demonstrate their viruses' internal structures and functions.
Pestilence and Plague In this lesson, students investigate various disease epidemics that have devastated the world population at different points in history and examine the diseases' effects on the countries they impacted. http: //nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/2...
Diseases Without Borders Students will use the European Union's struggle with Mad Cow Disease as a starting point to study the spread of infectious diseases across geographical boundaries... http: //nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/2...
Gazing Into the Faces of AIDS In this lesson, students consider whether or not there are generalizations that can be made about people who are infected with H.I.V. or who have the AIDS virus. http: //nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/2...
