Do Now:
Read the article right below this line and then answer the questions that follow. Email your answers to the questions to Mr. Witsil. Remember: don't misuse gmail and definitely don't use google chat!
Article:
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/2013/01/14/fighting-the-flu-limits-modern-medicine/b3sSGbwRGORDITH8Esrq2K/story.html
1. How did the number of flu cases in December of 2012 compare with December of 2011?
2. Is it too late to get the flu shot?
3. How many people per year die from the flu?
4. What is one thing that the article says we could do to decrease the number of flu deaths?
Read the article right below this line and then answer the questions that follow. Email your answers to the questions to Mr. Witsil. Remember: don't misuse gmail and definitely don't use google chat!
Article:
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/2013/01/14/fighting-the-flu-limits-modern-medicine/b3sSGbwRGORDITH8Esrq2K/story.html
1. How did the number of flu cases in December of 2012 compare with December of 2011?
2. Is it too late to get the flu shot?
3. How many people per year die from the flu?
4. What is one thing that the article says we could do to decrease the number of flu deaths?
Below is a view of the Influenza A virus through an electron microscope:
Classwork:
Your assignment today is to create a Flu Prevention Poster. You may use your choice of programs to create the poster including Word and PowerPoint, but I believe that Microsoft Word will make this assignment easiest.
Your poster must:
A. Explain what influenza is.
B. Explain why influenza is dangerous.
C. Explain what students can do to help prevent the spread of the flu.
D. Suggestion - Add graphics to make your point clear. (Pictures, clip-art, your own art... i.e. draw a picture, take a picture of it with your or my cell phone and email it to yourself.)
Use the following resources (and google) to help you:
- http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2013/01/14/weekly-challenge-ways-sidestep-flu-germs/Ln6QZhRGlBpE73mXJWbInK/story.html
- http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/preventing.htm
- http://www.flu.gov/about_the_flu/current_flu/index.html
- Mayo Clinic flu prevention info.
- Whole mayo clinic article on the flu: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/influenza/DS00081
- The federal government's flu web site.
Your assignment today is to create a Flu Prevention Poster. You may use your choice of programs to create the poster including Word and PowerPoint, but I believe that Microsoft Word will make this assignment easiest.
Your poster must:
A. Explain what influenza is.
B. Explain why influenza is dangerous.
C. Explain what students can do to help prevent the spread of the flu.
D. Suggestion - Add graphics to make your point clear. (Pictures, clip-art, your own art... i.e. draw a picture, take a picture of it with your or my cell phone and email it to yourself.)
Use the following resources (and google) to help you:
- http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2013/01/14/weekly-challenge-ways-sidestep-flu-germs/Ln6QZhRGlBpE73mXJWbInK/story.html
- http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/preventing.htm
- http://www.flu.gov/about_the_flu/current_flu/index.html
- Mayo Clinic flu prevention info.
- Whole mayo clinic article on the flu: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/influenza/DS00081
- The federal government's flu web site.
Homework Tonight - Continue planning your poster. You will have until the end of class tomorrow to complete the poster.
Extra Credit. A Student found the picture to the right. Email me an explanation of why there is an EGG holding a flu vaccine and you will earn extra credit!