The goal of this unit is to improve students’ understanding of the impact that infectious diseases had and still have on societies, and to introduce the factors responsible for infectious diseases.
The lesson started with an introduction to the immune system where students learned about how our bodies protect against harmful microbes. It continues with an introduction of microbes as infectious agents and focuses on the disease caused by them. The unit is completed by introducing the roles of different protective barriers that the human body has to fight off invaders. Students researched the assigned topics of infectious diseases in groups. Topics were hepatitis, Covid-19, malaria, and dengue that was assigned in groups. Students created a Power point on the assigned topics of diseases after research and presented their power points in their science lesson.
Criteria of the PowerPoint
Project work: [ /20]
Group :
Explain how infectious diseases such as hepatitis, Covid-19, malaria, and dengue
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- are caused /contracted,
- how are they tested and diagnosed,
- how can it be prevented?
- Suggest ways in which communities of people can safeguard against the spread of infectious diseases.
