Outbreak+A+Study+in+Epidemiology

FB1794 - $51.95
 * Outbreak: A Study In Epidemiology - Student Laboratory Kit**

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Participant Feedback (put your name - comment) Susan - Good lab. I am anxious to use this in our medical magnet curriculum. Always looking for real world medical situations.

Bryan - simple and effective. I liked this exercise as an analytical, problem solving exercise.

Kasi- This lab use a lot of math skilss. Following direction is very important. I would edit the directions for cell d to read "students were not exposed according to your hypothesis and do not have the disease", as students will use the cards and not assume the rest of the student population. On part six of the procedure student must nmot multiply by 100.

Emily - This was a good lab to show scientific method. It had it numerous possiblities for the data the students could collect and anaylze. There was also the possiblity to incorporate graphing of data and data comparison. It is a good connection between math and science and could actually be used as a cross-curricular activity.

Ken - I felt it needed a lot more information than was available. 1st year students would probably be very confused.

Carrie - The cards contained more informtion than was utilized. If students are able to look past the additional information, then I would use this lab to demonstrate scientific method. The topic of pinkeye would als be very interesting to students.

Lemon- Nice activity! Students frequently don't read many instructions, so I suggest variables defined, as in a math equation, in its own box/separate part outside of the paragraph (ex: a=... b=... etc.).

Christine- A few suggestions to help simplify for any age group: -Color-code cards -Provide students with a poster board that allows students to place cards in categories. This can provide a visual and prevent confusion. It will be a bit more prep, but can be used again in the following years and will help with students who are not very strong visual learner. It seemed like this lab could go overtime- so I would plan accordingly. I would not recommend this as-is for 9th or 10th graders, but perhaps it would good for 11th and 12th graders when working with recapping scientific method and graphing. For ~$50 This is not a bad buy if you have the right group to work with- could be a good icebreaker for any sort of science camp, or summer school activity that is not part of a traditional school year program- In forensics for example, this can be useful in helping students think analytically

Keith - once I got the feel for the data, I enjoyed this exercise, but initially I felt really at sea about how to approach organizing the deck of data. I can imagine that a high school freshman would feel a bit disoriented, too. Perhaps pre-lab instructions on how to classify the data would be in order to point the students in the right direction at the start of the lab.

Louann - Students defintely need to think for this one! It requires a lot of persistence, so I would not recommend it for a lower level, but honors kids would love the challenge.

Alicia- There seemed to be a lot of information on the cards that are not used. I think that maybe there are more/other activities that could be done with the cards.