Emerging Infectious Diseases Course Outline
Spring 2008
Mrs. Tilaro
jtilaro@swms.wnyric.org
Week
Topic
Reading / Assignment
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Intro to the
Course
Intro to the
Scientific
Method
2-4
Intro to
emerging
and reemerging
infectious
diseases
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Syllabus
Review the Immune system and Scientific Method
Dissect a Scientific Journal
Introduce “Backyard Bacteria” experiment.
Watch House episode, TB or not TB, with worksheet
Read Chapters 2, 13, and 8 in text with guided reading questions
Answer questions at the end of each PowerPoint lecture.
Continue with “Backyard Bacteria” experiment
Start Research Paper on “Backyard Bacteria”
2 PowerPoint’s with questions
Section of research paper due
Immunity PowerPoint
Osmosis Jones movie with worksheet
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Poverty
5 -6
Immune
system
review
Typhoid
Mary
Role of
Prevention
Hantavirus
7-9
SARS
Influenza
10
Vaccination?
11+12
Spring break
/ no school
13+14
Small Pox
and its
eradication
The Big
Three
Malaria
15+16
Tuberculosis
HIV/AIDS
Zoonotic
Disease
West Nile
Virus
Ebola and
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National Science Content
Standards
 Standards A through G
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Standards A through G
Read “Typhoid Mary” article by Jennifer Rosenberg
Movie on Typhoid Mary, with worksheet
Public Awareness Project on Food Safety (Presenting Hanta virus to
Mr. Peterson)
PowerPoint with questions
Section of research paper due
Read “Death at Four Corner” by Denis Grady with guided reading
questions
Hantavirus PowerPoint
Read chapter 6 in text with guided reading questions
Read “Hitting the flu at its source, before it hits us” by Donald G.
McNeil
Create a public service campaign
View Movies, “Influenza, 1918”, “Influenza B”, “Outbreak”
Answer questions based on movie or video
Section of research paper due.
Read, “A vital discussion clouded” by Denise Grady
Read, “Furor on Rush to require cervical cancer vaccine” by Stephanie
Saul and Andrew Pollack
5 page research paper due (April 11th)
Read “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston
Write a book report based on the guidelines given on your syllabus (day
1).
Report due day we come back from spring break (April 28 th)
Read Chapter 14 in text with guided reading questions
Read “Vigil for a Doomed Virus” by Mark Caldwell with guided
questions
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/lessons/lesson6/act1.html
Read chapters 9-11 in text with guided reading questions
Conduct a simulation of spread of disease due to traveling and
unprotected sex.
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Standards A, C, D, E, F,
G
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Standards A through G
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Standards A through G
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Standards A through G
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Standards A through G
Read chapters 15, 5, and 7 in text with guided reading questions
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Standards A through G
Lassa
Fever
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Parasitic
Diseases
18
Food and
Water-borne
diseases
Pathogens
used for
Bioterrorism
19
19+20
Implications
PSA Final
Project
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Read article, “A common Parasite Reveals its strongest Asset: Stealth”
by Carl Zimmer.
Create a children’s book
Study of E. coli, Salmonella, Botulism
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Read Chapters 16 + 17 with guided reading questions
PSA – create one on any infectious disease you would like, it will be
presented on the school’s news program.
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Standards A through G
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Standards A through G
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Standards A through G
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Standards A, E, F, G