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Unit L: Organization and Change within Living Organisms: Infectious Agents
Quarter 4 – 1 Week
Standards Addressed
During Unit
Overview
Students will study and investigate ways in which infectious agents can affect the body
and types of prevention against these agents.
Fundamental Skills:
Science laboratory safety practices including an SDS.
Coherence
In the grade prior students…
 Infectious agents have not previously been studied
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Highlighted Nature of
Science Standards
Unpacking the Standards: What do we want students to Know, Understand and Do (KUD)
The purpose of creating a Know, Understand, and Do Map (KUD) is to further the unwrapping of a standard to assist PLCs in answering question #1, “What do we expect all students to learn?” It is
important for PLCs to study the standards in the unit to ensure that all members have a mutual understanding of what student learning will look and sound like when the standards are achieved.
Additionally, collectively unwrapping the standard will help with the creation of the uni-dimensional scale (for use with students). When creating a KUD, it is important to consider the standard under
study within a K-12 progression and identify the prerequisite skills that are essential for mastery.
Unit L: Organization & Change within Living Organisms – Infectious Agents
Unit Essential Question: How do infectious agents damage systems of the body?
Standard:
SC.6.L.14.6 Compare and contrast types of infectious agents that may infect the human body, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
Understand
“Essential understandings,” or generalizations, represent ideas that are transferable to other contexts.
Living organisms have a hierarchy of organization between organisms and within themselves that are specific to function and homeostasis.
Know
Do
Declarative knowledge: Facts, vocabulary, information.
Procedural knowledge: Skills, strategies & processes that are transferrable to other contexts.
Infectious agents that may infect the human body include viruses,
bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
Compare and contrast types of infectious agents that may infect the
human body, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
Infectious agents can be prevented at times.
Identify ways infectious agents might be prevented.
Performance Task
The Center for Disease Control has asked students to research various types of diseases and create a poster for their campaign to inform the
public of infectious diseases. Students should research and thoroughly explain the similarities and differences between viruses, bacteria, fungi,
and parasites on a visually appealing poster. The poster should be informative yet engaging to look at. The posters will be placed in doctor’s offices
and should appeal to all ages.
Key Learning: A variety of infectious agents can infect the human body and disrupt homeostasis.
Concept: Infectious Agents
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Driving Questions:
What are the infectious agents that can infect
the human body?
Compare and contrast types of infectious agents that
may infect the human body, including viruses,
What environmental factors might affect one’s
bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
health?
Sample Formative Assessment Task:
The following picture shows three pathogens.
The disease each pathogen causes appears below
its picture.
How do these infectious agents differ?
How does an object’s state of matter
depend on its kinetic energ
Which treatment might be given to someone
infected with either of the first two pathogens,
but would not be given to treat the third
pathogen?
Student Investigations:
Lab Manual: Quick Lab p. 486, Quick Lab p. 491,
Unit Lab p. 493, Unit Lab p. 504
Vocabulary
bacteria, virus, parasite, fungi, host
How Viruses Spread Investigation
A.
B.
C.
D.
antibiotics
antiseptics
antiviral drugs
ultraviolet radiation
____ 17. Viruses are different than other infectious agents.
http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewResour How are viruses different from the others?
A. Viruses are not alive.
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B. Viruses do not reproduce.
C. Viruses can easily infect the body.
D. Viruses are responsible for noninfectious
diseases.
Resources
Student Text:
Fusion Resources:
Interactive Digital Curriculum: Infectious Disease
Student Misconceptions:
Uncovering Student Ideas in Science by P.
Keeley
TE: 714-728
Deeper Learning Opportunities:
Science Writing Heuristic:
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Science_
writing_heuristic
Student Text: 556-567
http://stemteachersnowpdproject.wikispac
es.com/Science+Writing+Heuristic
Other Complex Texts:
How Are Viruses and Bacteria Different? Article
http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-areviruses-and-bacteria-different
Agents of Infection Card Sort Activity
http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewRes
ourceLesson/Preview/28555
Just What the Doctor Ordered Article
http://www.readworks.org/passages/just-whatdoctor-ordered
Novel:
Antibiotics LS v.1 p.151
Meet the Microbes Article (Compares different
diseases)
http://www.readworks.org/passages/meetmicrobes
The Virus Debate LS v. 1 p. 15
Halse, L. “Fever 1793”
Unit L: Infectious Agents
Grade Concept: Infectious Agents (adapted from Dade Schools)
Sample Scale
Sample Performance Tasks

Score 4.0
In addition to Score 3.0, in-depth inferences and applications
that go beyond what was taught.
Score 3.5
Score 3.0
I can do everything at a 3.0, and I can demonstrate partial success at score 4.0.
I can:
 Develop a graphic organizer that compares and contrast the

Score 2.5
Score 2.0
Can compare and contrast types of infectious
agents that may infect the human body, including
viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
Research and describe examples of pathogens that affect
humans on a regular basis (i.e., Influenza, Rhinovirus,
Streptococcus, MRSA, HIV)
different type of infectious agents including the way it can
infect a person.

Explain the difference between a vaccine and antibiotic,
including appropriate time to use each.
I can do everything at a 2.0, and I can demonstrate partial success at score 3.0.
I can:
 Design a table that classifies different types of infectious
agents that affect the human body.
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
Score 1.5
Score 1.0
Can identify some types of infectious agents that
affect the human body.
Can recall that antibiotics are used to treat some
infectious agents
I can do everything at a 1.0, and I can demonstrate partial success at score 2.0.
With help, a partial understanding of some of the simpler
details and processes and some of the more complex ideas and
processes.