Health Alert: Stop the Spread of Infectious Diseases! An Information Literacy Lesson presented by Aggie Ferris C & I 445

Ew! Why Diseases? 7 th Grade Science, Disease Unit Two 30+ minute lessons Outbreaks or illnesses are natural problem-solving situations that lend themselves nicely to research Potential for student engagement is high Easily made real world connections Products created through this project can be genuinely useful Objectives: Students will identify questions that will guide research Students will brainstorm possible sources of answers to these questions Students will locate sources with relevant information Students will read and collect information from a variety of print, interviews and electronic sources. Students will use a graphic organizer to take notes in order to organize information from multiple sources. Students will ultimately take the information they collect and will create visual presentations to disseminate their information to a wide audience.

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Big 6 Skills: Task Definition & Information Seeking Overview: ▫Students will read an article about Typhoid Mary and will then brainstorm questions a health engineer would ask to figure out the source of the Typhoid outbreak. We will then brainstorm where answers to their questions could be found. Students will receive a Health Alert assignment and will choose a disease to research and create a product (PSA) that will prevent future outbreaks. Big 6 Skills: Location and Access & Use of Information Overview: ▫Students will review the story of Typhoid Mary by watching a short film clip. We will then review the questions we brainstormed in lesson 1. Students will use these questions to guide their research. They will use a graphic organizer to organize their questions and use a variety of print and electronic sources to answer the questions they generated about their disease. At the end of class, students will reflect on the research process in a journal entry.