Scientific Poster Session

Description:
This is one of two possible culminating activities for the infectious disease epidemiology module and is appropriate for all students. In this lesson, students will bring together everything they have learned. In order to teach this lesson, you do not have to have taught all the other lessons, but your students should, at a minimum, have worked through Lesson 1.

Objectives:
Students will:

• Conduct research on microbes that cause infectious diseases
• Create a poster that lists the agent, host, and environment for a disease
• Present their findings to the class

Relevant Standards:
This activity fulfills science and health education standards [PDF – 103 KB].