Cells & DiseaseWho Infected Whom?

Entry Task:

Are all diseases infectious?

Explain your answer (possibly with an example)

Turn InDisease Research Report1. Use resource to answer questions 1-6

2. Identify your source for your answer to each question on the back of the paper

3. Make sure your answers are in your own words (not quoted from the source)

Disease PSA Project Step 1: Disease Research Report

Step 2: Ms KL gives feedback on your Research

Not yet but soon!:

Step 3: Add to your research using Ms. KL’s feedback

Step 4: Learning about & observing PSA’s

Step 5: Prepare your own PSA about your disease

Step 6: Present your PSA

Knowing About DiseaseDisease You Guardian Older

Adult

AIDS/HIV

Alzheimer’s

Amoebic D.

Anthrax

Asthma

Breast Canc.

Bronchitis

Chickenpox

Cholera

Cold

Cystic Fibrosis

Diabetes

Diptheria

Ebola

Leprosy

Knowing About DiseaseDisease You Guardian Older

Adult

Hepatitis

Influenza

Leukemia

Lung Cancer

Lyme

Malaria

Measles

Meningitis

Mono

Multiple Scl.

Mumps

Parkinson’s

Pertussis

Pneumonia

Polio

Knowing About DiseaseDisease You Guardian Older

Adult

Rabies

Ringworm

Rubella

Salmonella

Sickle Cell

Strep Throat

Tapeworm

Tetanus

Tuberculosis

Typhoid

With Your GroupCompare the number of students, parents and grandparents who knew someone with a particular disease.

What patterns do you observe?

For example, which diseases were more familiar to the grand-parent generation than your generation?

What do you think is the reason for this?

With Your Group

Would you expect to find that the same diseases are equally common in different parts of the world?

Why or why not?

Who Infected Whom?

Read Introduction

&

Abingdon Chronicle Article

What is a carrier?

Challenge:

Use the information on the Interview Cards to help you make a hypothesis

Who is (or are) the carrier(s) of the disease?

Making a HypothesisPart A: Evidence from the Interviews

Follow steps 1-3

Complete steps 4 on a sheet of notebook paper that you will attach to this activity

Example Hypothesis

Use the Web you created to make your hypothesis

Record your hypothesis on notebook paper

(this is step 4)

Who to test?

With your partner, complete steps 5-7

For step 7, make the table on your notebook paper

Who to test?

Name Symptoms?

(yes/no)

Disease Test

Results

Is this person a carrier?(yes/no)

Collecting Lab EvidenceRead Reminder

8. Find the dropper bottle for ONE of the people you would like to test. Place 3 drops of the “saliva” sample onto a piece of labeled wax paper

9. Test the sample by adding 1 drop of Disease Indicator. Make sure the dropper does not touch the “saliva”

10. Record the results in the table you made on your notebook paper

11. Repeat steps 8-11 for the other people you are testing

Who to test?

Name Symptoms?

(yes/no)

Disease Test

Results

Is this person a carrier?(yes/no)

Homework:Who Infected Whom?Answer ANALYSIS Questions 1-7