ESSENTIAL

LEARNING

OUTCOMES

What will the students know or be able to do at the end of the lesson?

ASSESSMENT

How will the students demonstrate that they have accomplished the desired outcome?

STRATEGIES

In what activities will the students be engaged to accomplish the desired outcome?

3 HOTS QUESTIONS

e.g. one should be on knowledge, one on application, and one on synthesis or evaluation.

Mon

 5/14

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Students will learn the causes of communicable diseases. 

Students will describe the discovery of the causes of communicable diseases.

Students will watch a video on viruses and/or communicable diseases or read a textbook assignment on the same subject

1.  What is in your system that makes you resist some infections?

2.  Why do you think some people are more susceptible to sickness than others.

3.   How does hand-washing prevent germs?

Tues

5/15

Page 

Students will be able to identify several organisms responsible for infectious disease 

Students will be able to demonstrate positive health practices and appropriate health care in an effort to reduce health risks

 Students will be able to conclude that health is influenced by body systems working together

1.  What can be done to limit the outbreak of a particular infectious disease?

2.  How can collecting and organizing data like  help people?

3.  Describe ways these diseases are evolving.

Wed

5/16

Page

 Students will learn how diseases are spread.

Students will examine the symptoms of, modes of transmission, and causes of several (selected) infectious diseases. 

 Working in groups of four, students discuss a recent outbreak of their infectious disease, where the outbreak occurred, what led to the outbreak, and how it was contained.

1.  What are some infectious diseases they/people they know have had?

2.  What were some of the symptoms that they had with that illness?

3.  How did they treat it?

Thurs

 5/17

Page

Students will be able to describe symptoms, progression, and treatment for various infectious diseases 

Students will be able to recognize that pathogens and other risk factors are related to the cause or prevention of disease and other health problems

Students will be able to define communicable disease and understand how it progresses. 

1.  Is cholera an infectious disease?

2.  How do you know?

3.  What are some symptoms of cholera?

Fri

 5/18

Page

Students will learn the dangers of infectious diseases.

Students will demonstrate using unknown solutions, how we can spread an infectious disease from one person to another.

Students will analyze the dangers of infectious disease and how quickly they can spread from one person to another. 

1.  Why is it important that we wash our hands or cover our mouths when we sneeze?

2.  Why do we need to take precautions like this?

3.  How we can spread an infectious disease from one person to another.

Bloom’s Taxonomy

 (HOTS Questions)

-Knowledge

-Comprehension

-Application

-Analysis

-Synthesis

-Evaluation

School Grade Weighting Scale:

Tests and Quizzes (50%):

Classwork/ Participation (20%):

Homework (15%):

Projects/ Portfolios (15%):

Multiple Intelligences/ Differentiated Instruction:

Use of Technology:

   ____ Smartboard

   ____ Student Response System