Distance Learning Lesson - Disease Outbreak
Monday 23 March 2020
Distance Learning Lesson - Disease Outbreak
Notes on how I am planning my next IB Geography lesson via distance learning
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Student Activity_Synthesis_Disease Outbreak - Simulation Activity
Students should work in pairs and have been contracted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in their disease prevention unit.
Three urgent cases come into the office for your attention.
- An outbreak of cholera in a Jordanian refugee camp
- A heightened concern about the SARS virus, otherwise known as avian flu. The fear is that it will become a pandemic.
- The transfer of Ebola at the national scale and the global scale
You are required to work as a consultancy team to prepare a plan of disease prevention for one or more of these disease outbreaks.
You should write a plan of action to prepare, plan and prevent further disease diffusion at the scale required.
- Consider in your plan the following:
- Containment, isolation, medical provision, sanitation, travel flows, gender sensitivities, short term and long term needs
- You will present you plan to the class and your briefing should take up to 10 minutes
Lesson guidance to my students
You are to advise the WHO on how to manage the three disease outbreaks as shown above. Work on a shared google document and upload it to the Teams channel prior to the lesson on Thursday.
In class on Thursday I will ask one group to present how they would manage one of the three diseases, but you should be familiar and prepared to manage all three. We will set the video call up so that we share our screens.
We can then follow this up with a discussion on the issues we came across.
When putting together your management in addition to the ideas above, consider the following,
- How it transmits - both environmental and human
- How it should be managed in terms of containment, delay, mitigation.
- How it should be communicated at a range of appropriate geographical scales.
- To what extent gender is relevant accroding to the sensitivities of the demographic, culture and social pressures.
Your task now is to get in touch with your group online, share a google document and coordinate yourselves to be ready for Thursday.