Virus+Spreading

=Lesson plans & ideas for teaching about virus spreading=

West Nile Virus - KCVS
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Netlogo Hubnet for Virus Spreading - here and here
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 * Teaching Notes for Netlogo Hubnet from Kristin Labby, 2011:**





-Used the NetLogo Virus model -Students learning about different types of diseases and how diseases can spread. -Hooked up my laptop to the projector, and had all the control (tech hadn't yet installed netlogo on the students laptops). -Had students write in their notebooks the Netlogo-Virus_Data_table.docx linked above. -Explained the variables (and what things we can't vary and are assumed constant in this simulation) -Set up case 1 (Ebola-like virus) with short duration, high infectiousness, and low recovery rate. -Students formed hypothesis -I started the simulation -Students wrote down their observations. -Students really liked it, they kept wanting me to set it to a really nasty virus -Then I went through a second case, same process.

Ramon also recently did a virus spreading lesson.