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Virus
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CNN
reporter Holly Firfer, on site at CDC.
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This
popular free curriculum offers middle and high school school teachers
a comprehensive set of multimedia aids and activities for teaching
units on infectious disease topics.
CDC
experts team up with Turner CNNfyi.com and use extensive video,
text, and the transcripts of interactive discussions to present
sessions on topics like viruses, infectious diseases yesterday and
today, influenza, and epidemiology, the disease detective profession.
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Understanding
infectious agents with Dr. Sue Binder of CDC.
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Accompanying
these are five complete learning activities, including labs and
simulations, that allow students to further explore the subjects.
To round out the program, teachers and students are provided with
text resources and a related site listing, worksheets, and glossary.
All materials
here are adapted from a live, daylong interactive event with webcasts
and moderated chats that was broadcast on October 24, 2000. During
the event, hundreds of schools tuned in and over 1,000 students took
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Encounters Materials on CNNfyi.com* |
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| Live
Events Archive and Chat Transcript (at CNNfyi.com).
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Go to the Live
Events Archive page >>
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Archived
live event sessions include these topics: |
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Viruses:
Structure and Function |
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The
West Nile File |
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Infectious
Diseases Past and Present |
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An
Ounce of Prevention... |
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The
Flu and You |
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How
to be a Disease Detective |
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What
is an Infectious Disease? |
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Activities (at CNNfyi.com) |
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Links on the CDC Site |
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Protecting
the Nation’s Health in an Era of Globalization: CDC’s Global Infectious
Disease Strategy
Plan describes how CDC and its international partners can collaborate
to prevent the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.
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Sites and Web Pages Covering Various Diseases Mentioned in Virus Encounters |
An
Ounce of Prevention Keeps the Germs Away
A quick introduction to infectious diseases, and simple things families
can do to prevent getting them. Excite
(EXcellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology)
A collection of teaching materials developed by CDC to introduce students
to epidemiology, the science used by disease detectives everywhere, and
to teach them about public health. |
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