Childhood Illnesses Communicable Diseases

Lesson Sequence:

Formative Assessment / Key Questions During Lesson

Looking at the word “communicable”, what do you think it means? The novel coronavirus is a communicable disease, what safety precautions have people take in to avoid exposure? How is it spread? What other illnesses are communicable?

Engage

Start the lesson by engaging students in discussion about what previous knowledge they possess regarding communicable diseases, spread, and prevention. Follow-up by presenting definitions of communicable disease, pathogen, immunized, airborne transmission, fecal oral transmission, direct contact, and indirect contact.

How exactly do children spread common communicable diseases?”. Think about a child's typical day, how do germs spread via direct, indirect, airborne, or fecal orally?

Explore Using meti.com, a whiteboard, or other whiteboard application, students will answer the question “How exactly do children spread common communicable diseases?”.

Students will be provided pictures of common childhood illnesses and match them with the symptoms associated with them.

Why is (insert procedure) hazardous? What steps would you need to clean up blood? What steps would you need to change a diaper? Wash hands? Clean? Sanitize? What materials would you need for each procedure?

Explain Using information from the student responses about how communicable diseases are spread, students will start to brainstorm procedures such as universal infection control, how and when to wash hands, cleaning, diapering, and sanitation to reduce transmission as well as the exclusion policy in childcare facilities.

Elaborate

Visually appealing informational flyer listing steps of procedure. Pictures should be from open sources.

Students will create a Canva/word document informational flyer on procedures such as universal infection control, how and when to wash hands, cleaning, diapering, and sanitation to reduce transmission.

What issues might this create for families? What would be included in a follow up plan if there is a positive diagnosis? Why is it important to build strong relationships with families , especially in situations like these?

Evaluate

Students will be given an illness to act out. Their classmates will have to identify the illness and create a parent letter that includes what illness they suspect the child is