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Infectious Disease – Who is the next to be Infected?
1. What do you know about infectious diseases? (Make a list on the lines below)
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2. With your partner(s), sort the disease cards into two groups. What cards did you
sort into each group?
Group #1:
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Group #2
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Why did your group sort the cards the way you did?
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3. Set this worksheet to the side with the card stacks. We will come back to this after
the disease spreads! Have you heard the news? The disease is traveling through the
class. Who will be the first infected? Who else will be infected? Is anyone safe?
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4. Now, wasn’t that a great activity? How did you decide who the initial infected
person was? Write a brief statement describing how you figured this out.
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After reading the section on infectious diseases (pgs. 592-6), please answer the
following questions.
5. What did Joseph Lister hypothesize about microorganisms?
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6. What were the results of Joseph Lister’s new method?
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7. What is a pathogen? How do pathogens make you sick?
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8. Below are four major groups of pathogens. Describe each type, how it grows, and
an example of each.
Bacteria:
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In what two ways do bacteria cause disease?
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Viruses:
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In terms of size and how they cause disease, how are viruses different
from bacteria?
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Fungi:
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Protists:
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9. How are pathogens spread?
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10. What are the two ways that people can become infected from another person?
Give an example for each.
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11. How can you become infected through soil, food, and water? Give an example of
pathogens that occur in the environment for each.
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12. How are pathogens spread by contaminated objects?
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13. How can you become infected with lyme disease by a deer tick?
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14. What are some ways that you can reduce your risk of infection?
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15. Back to the card sort. Take another look at the two groups you made. With the
new information you have learned about how pathogens spread, are there any
changes you would make to your stacks? If so, what are they? Why?
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