Many students in the class will have similar symptoms, but only a few will have the same disease. Direct students to select one card or clue randomly from the envelope. Have them circulate throughout the room and ask others about their symptoms. Their goal is to locate other students who have similar symptoms. Students may take notes or this may be a memory exercise.
Students can have fun acting our certain symptoms.
After one or two minutes, tell students to remove a second symptom card from their envelopes. They should continue to search for others with the same illness. Continue this process until all clues have been removed from the envelopes and everyone had found at least one other person sharing the same waterborne disease. Wrap Up and Action Reading their list of symptoms to the class reviewing Disease Descriptions , students should identify their illnesses. Have them infer how they contracted the disease, how the disease was transmitted, and how it can be prevented.