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DVD in the Classroom: Infectious Diseases

To help use the Holiday Lectures on Science DVDs in the classroom, HHMI grantees and the high school teachers that they work with have created lesson plans, activities, and standards and curriculum correlations. These resources can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.

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Title: Profile of a Research Scientist
Type:
Lesson plan
Source: Montgomery County Public Schools Education Foundation
Description: Help students understand the many facets of a scientist's work.

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Title: Infectious Diseases Lectures: Standards Correlations
Type:
Correlations
Source: Montgomery County Public Schools Education Foundation
Description: DVD correlations to the national science education content standards.

size: 32 KB


Title: Adherence: What Sticks Can Make You Sick
Type: Lesson plan, activities, correlations, and DVD index
Source: University of Colorado at Boulder
Description: Explore the role of adhesin molecules used by pathogens.

Title Page.pdf
size: 96 KB

Overview.pdf
size: 204 KB

Student Activities.pdf
size: 252 KB

DVD Index Correlation
size: 128 KB

Correlations to Colorado State and National education Standards
size: 156 MB


Title: Measuring of Antibiotic Resistance
Type: Lesson plan, activities, correlations, and DVD index
Source: University of Colorado at Boulder
Description: Learn how antibiotics affect bacterial growth.

Title Page.pdf
size: 4 KB

Overview.pdf
size: 156 KB

Student Activities.pdf
size: 172 KB

DVD Index Correlation
size: 116 KB

Correlations to Colorado State and National Education Standards
size: 120 MB


Title: Tracking the Source of Disease: Koch's Postulates, Causality, and Contemporary Epidemiology
Type: Lesson plan, activities, reading assignments, correlations, and DVD index
Source: University of Colorado at Boulder
Description: Learn how antibiotics affect bacterial growth.

Title Page.pdf
size: 4 KB

Overview.pdf
size: 156 KB

Student Activity.pdf
size: 172 KB

Reading Criteria
size: 116 KB

Reading Diabetes
size: 120 MB

Patient Data
size: 120 MB

DVD Index
size: 120 MB

Correlations to Colorado State and National Education Standards
size: 120 MB


Title: Viral and Bacterial Modes of Infection
Type: Lesson plan
Source: Harvard Medical School
Description: Understand patterns of infection.

size: 28 KB


Title: Epidemiology, Viruses, and the Scientific Method Study Assignment
Type:
Independent study assignment
Source: Harvard Medical School
Description: Test your content knowledge of epidemiology and the scientific method.

size: 12 KB


Title: Food Safety
Type: Lesson plan
Source: Harvard Medical School
Description: Food-safety-based approach to enhance the infectious diseases lectures.

size: 36 KB


Title: Testing for Biological Plants
Type: Three-week unit plan
Source: Harvard Medical School
Description: Investigate the medicinal properties of plants.

size: 36 KB


Title: Microbes and Mankind
Type: Lesson plan
Source: Oregon State University
Description: A lesson plan to accompany the infectious diseases lectures.

size: 12 KB


Title: Evaluation of Natural Compounds for Antimicrobial Activity
Type: Lab
Source: Rockefeller University
Description: Isolate active compounds from plant materials to demonstrate their antibacterial activity.

size: 16 KB


Title: You're the Director: Creating Pathogenesis Storyboards
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Create a storyboard to describe the process of infection.

size: 28 KB


Title: Smallpox: Will Vaccination Avert a Bioterrorism Threat?
Type:
Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Learn about smallpox and write reports to brief the president.

size: 24 KB


Title: What Do Your Parents Need to Know About Antibiotics?
Type:
Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Develop public health information about benefits and dangers of antibiotics.

size: 144 KB


Title: Viral Mutations Curriculum Activity
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Research a virus within the U.S.

size: 16 KB


Title: Sex in a Cup
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Learn about spreading infection through exchange of bodily fluids.

size: 72 KB


Title: Political Advocates Against Pathogenic Microbes
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Debate the use of agricultural antibiotics.

size: 24 KB


Title: Public Health in Your School
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Undertake a public health project to decrease illness in your school.

size: 16 KB


Title: Bacterial Pathogenesis
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Research and write a skit on a bacterial disease.

size: 12 KB


Title: Microbe Feud
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Teams of students compete to answer questions.

size: 8 KB


Title: Microbe Hunters
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: A PowerPoint-based activity related to the infectious diseases lectures.

Teacher's Guide
size: 12 KB

Microbe Hunter or Weakest Link?
size:72 KB


Title: Infection Storyboard Lesson Plans
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Create a storyboard about the process of bacteria invading a cell. 

size: 20 KB


Title: Outbreak
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Develop a public health policy to limit the spread of disease.

size: 12 KB


Title: Infectious Diseases Curriculum Activities
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Activities to enhance understanding of infectious diseases.

size: 20 KB


Title: Infectious Diseases Worksheets
Type: Activity
Source: University of South Dakota School of Medicine
Description: Activities to accompany BioInteractive's infectious diseases on-line material.

size: 8 KB


Title: Hepatitis A, B, C
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Review websites and answer questions about hepatitis.

size: 984 KB


Title: Bad Bugs
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Tour Internet sites to collect data on bacteria.

size: 16 KB


Title: Salmonella enteritidis
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Write a children's mystery book.

size: 368 KB


Title: Salmonella typhi
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Learn about Typhoid Mary and current research on Salmonella.

size: 372 KB


Title: Listeria News
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Develop a community education program.

size: 16 KB


Title: Respiratory System and Hantavirus
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Research the effects of hantavirus infection.

size: 20 KB


Title: West Nile Virus
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Investigate how rabies is transferred.

size: 12 KB


Title: Biology in the News: Anthrax
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Find out the latest information about anthrax.

size: 8 KB


Title: Bacteria and Ulcers: What is the Connection?
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Learn about H. pylori as a cause of ulcers.

size: 96 KB


Title: Rabies Virus
Type: Web quest
Source: Princeton University
Description: Learn how rabies is transmitted and how it affects its host.

size: 8 KB


Title: Introduction to Bacteria and Viruses
Type: Lesson plans
Source: Princeton University
Description: Three short lesson plans help students classify viruses and bacteria.

size: 8 KB


Title: An E. coli Lesson Plan
Type: Lesson plan
Source: Princeton University
Description: Team up to solve an outbreak of dysentery.

size: 32 KB


Title: Viruses and Bacteria in the News
Type: Lesson plan
Source: Princeton University
Description: Research an organism and prepare a lesson for the class. 

size: 28 KB


Title: Bacteria and Virus Quiz
Type: Assessment
Source: Princeton University
Description: Take a quiz to reinforce lecture content.

size: 8 KB


Title: Homeland Security
Type: Activity
Source: Princeton University
Description: Test a hospital's readiness to deal with biological agents released by terrorists.

size: 12 KB


Title: Handwashing
Type: Wet lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Learn the importance of handwashing.

size: 8 KB


Title: Disease Transmission Demo
Type: Demonstration
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Learn how viruses are spread.

size: 8 KB


Title: Handwashing Lab
Type: Wet lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Learn why it is important to wash hands with soap.

size: 8 KB


Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive—Bacteria
Type: Activity
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Create a poster with facts about a disease you choose to investigate.

size: 8 KB


Title: Mad Cow Disease
Type: Assignment
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Use the Web to find answers to questions about mad cow disease.

size: 8 KB


Title: How Are Bacteria Classified?
Type: Activity
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Three short exercises to help students classify bacteria.

size: 80 KB


Title: Friendly Bacteria
Type: Lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Devise an experiment to show how bacteria decay.

size: 8 KB


Title: Cabbage Today, Sauerkraut Tomorrow
Type: Lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Discover how naturally occuring bacteria change cabbage into sauerkraut.

size: 8 KB


Title: Bacteria in Our Food
Type: Lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Use a microscope to see bacteria in food.

size: 8 KB


Title: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Type: Lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Three short lesson plans to help students classify viruses and bacteria.

size: 12 KB


Title: Yeast on the Rise
Type: Lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Investigate the variables that affect yeast production. 

size: 8 KB


Title: How Many Viruses Fit on a Pin?
Type: Activity
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Calculate how many viruses fit on the head of a pin. 

size: 12 KB


Title: Zone of Inhibition
Type: Lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Test different antibiotics against a known bacteria.

size: 8 KB


Title: Microbe Collection Lab
Type: Lab
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Swab your school to learn that bacteria can be found on every surface.

size: 8 KB


Title: How Quickly Can Bacteria Multiply?
Type: Activity
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Use kidney beans to determine how quickly bacteria multiply.

size: 8 KB


Title: Can You Cure a Cold?
Type: Activity
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Examine cold medication information to determine if products can cure a cold.

size: 8 KB


Title: Viruses: Are They Alive?
Type: Activity
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Learn more about viruses with these questions and activities.

size: 16 KB


Title: Epidemics: Past, Present, and (hopefully not!) Future
Type: Activity
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Investigate the nature of an epidemic outbreak.

size: 12 KB


Title: Antibiotics and Resistance
Type: Activity
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Description: Tell the class about one type of bacterial infection.

size: 12 KB


Title: Contagion
Type: Lesson plan and activities
Source: University of Miami
Description: Develop an understanding of transmission and epidemiology.

Overall Lesson Plan.pdf
size: 40 KB

Contact Tracing.pdf
size: 48 KB

Getting a Disease Is a Throw of the Dice.pdf
size: 112 KB

Which Well? (Introduction)
size: 48 KB

Which Well? Graphics
size: 3.6 MB


Title: The Smallest Menace Is Not Dennis
Type: Lesson plan
Source: University of Miami
Description: Three short lesson plans to help students classify viruses and bacteria.

Overall Lesson Plan.pdf
size: 44 KB

Pre and Post Video Activities.pdf
size: 80 KB

Fluid Exchange Lab.pdf
size: 52 KB


Title: Waiting for the Microbe to Strike
Type: Activity
Source: University of Miami
Description: Understand the relative sizes of various bacteria and viruses.

size: 136 KB


Title: Don't Judge a Microbe by Its Size
Type: Activity
Source: University of Miami
Description: Understand the relative sizes of various bacteria and viruses.

size: 52 KB


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