By; Sawyer Arkwright, Alicia Chisholm, Bryanna Greig, Tessa Guest, Cassandra Lojko, Brittney Yiu

The Silent Spread: STIs

Description

In this Health lesson students will use code to investigate the transmission of sexually transmitted infections. Students will see the rate of infection, recovery rates, and possibilities for re-infection. With this code students can use public health data to then further investigate possibilities such as real time infection rates, infection rates for specific diseases, and/or how education effects transmission rates.

Introduction

Demonstrate the code with the population rate set to the number of students in the class and then also the number of students in the school.

Working on it

1. Students will get into groups (or table groups work) and be given a specific STI to investigate further (i.e., infection rates in specific populations).
2. Groups will then investigate how they might minimize the infection rates (this can be just a group discussion or ‘whiteboard chats’ if desired).
3. Students will then edit the code to show how sexual health education can mitigate infection rates in a specific scenario.

Consolidation

Share their code with the class. This includes a shared Google Doc and a discussion of findings between the entire class.

Resource Information

Tags: Public Health, Simulator, Science, STIs, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Scratch, Infection, General Science, Health, Disease

Main Subject: Health and Physical Education- Grade 9

URL Link to Code:  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1138325608 (teacher copy)