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DISEASE

Guiding question:
Is vaccination a social responsibility or a personal choice?
Signicant concept:
Working collaboratively, people can better control disease.

the effects of disease vary depending upon many factors,

controlling disease requires one to understand its ecology,

effectiveness of disease control is largely dependent upon


collaborative understandings and efforts.
What is disease?
How does it affect our lives?
Fish bowl activity (30 mins total).

Each group has a statement or question on a piece


of paper.

As a group, discuss what is written on the page.

Come up with the three most important ideas. Add


them to the page. (5 mins).

When told, move to the next table. Repeat the


previous steps, however this time you may comment
on other comments if you choose to.
What is disease?
Disease:

a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or


plant, especially one that produces specic symptoms or
that affects a specic location and is not simply a direct
result of physical injury.
Write a list of diseases that you have
suffered from in your lifetime.
If there are some you prefer not to mention,
then leave them off the list :)
Is all disease the same?
Infectious disease:

An infectious disease is caused by a pathogen and can be


transmitted from person to person. A pathogen is an
agent of disease, e.g. bacteria
Non- infectious disease:

A non-infectious disease is one that is caused by the


environment, lifestyle or genes.
Compile a list of diseases suffered by the whole class.
Using Pages, construct a table with a title and clear
headings. Identify each disease as infectious or non-
infectious.

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