1. Sample Lesson: Outbreak at Western High Nevin Katz, Ed. M.

2. Objectives To examine the role vaccines have had in preventing epidemics To provide insight as to how epidemics can emerge, re-emerge, and spread despite progress we have made.

3. Agenda 1. Share preconceptions 2. Vocabulary Build-up 3. Discuss the concept of a vaccine and how it is used in medicine 4. Read & Discuss Case Part 1 5. Read & Discuss Case Part 2 6. Going Further

4. Warm up, Part 1 Make a list of the childhood diseases you have had. Make a second list of the childhood diseases your parents had.

5. Warm up, Part 2 Make a third list of the childhood diseases your grandparents have had. Count up the number of diseases for each generation.

6. Discussion Question Why are the amounts of diseases less numerous in more recent generations?

7. Vocabulary Build-up Pathogen – an agent that causes disease, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus.

8. Vocabulary Build-up Vaccine – a preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen designed to build immunity to an illness.

9. Vocabulary Build-up Outbreak – a sudden increase in the number of victims suffering from a given illness

10. Vocabulary Build-up Epidemic – a situation in which there are more cases of a disease than is expected for a disease

11. Public Health Worker Monitors and manages threats to the health of the community. You will will play this role in the Upcoming case study.l

12. Case Study Part A Read Case Study Part A. Answer the questions related to the case study part A. Be ready to discuss the answers.

13. Case Study Part B Read Case Study Part B. Answer the questions related to the case study part B. Be ready to discuss the answers.

14. Going Further Overall Unit Next several lessons Designing Case Studies that fit a unit Integrating health careers