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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Germs: Learning Not to Share

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars have cinnamon sprinkled onto their hands and walk around the room touching objects within their reach. Students observe all of the objects containing cinnamon fingerprints to visualize where and how germs are spread.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Nova Teachers: The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Test the efficacy of different types of hand hygiene to stem the transmission of diseases by conducting an experiment using variables and a control group.
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Interactive
Other

Nicky Case: The Wisdom And/or Madness of Crowds

For Students 9th - 10th
Why do some crowds turn to madness and other crowds turn to wisdom? Network science seeks to explain groupthink with its core idea being we should not study the individual people, but their connections. Use this interactive site to...