Students use the Internet to find and compare illnesses that they have had or that they have heard about in the media.
Students explore the mechanisms behind catching and transmitting bacterial and viral diseases.
Students visit Web sites that show them how diseases are tracked, diagnosed, and treated. Throughout their endeavors, students are able to incorporate their acquired Internet information into mini-epidemiological projects that they develop. Distinguish between major infectious and noninfectious diseases, and communicable and non-communicable diseases. Discuss how microbes cause disease. Define epidemiology and what an epidemiologist does.