H1N1 Virus
Are you looking for ways to teach your students about the H1N1 virus or precautions to take to try to curtail its spread?
You’ve come to the right place. We’ll be updating this page with the most useful and helpful tips we find.
Try this exercise from the National Education Association: Put glitter in the palms of two students hands at the beginning of the day and have them shake hands. Explain to them that the glitter represents germs. Let the day move forward. Later in the day, have the students look around and see where the glitter has landed.
Don’t be surprised if they find it on doorknobs, lunchtables, each others’ desks and even on their noses. It’s a demonstrative way to teach students how rapidly germs can spread.
Here are some other places to look:
- Older students might enjoy this lesson plan from the Public Broadcasting System and it’s accompanying question and answer sheets.
- And more ideas for working lessons about H1N1 into the school day for some of the lower grade levels.
- The national Center for Disease Control out of Atlanta also has some recommandations for k-12 schools and for universities.
- The Illinois Department of Public Health answers common questions about the virus.
- For a variety of other information regarding the H1N1 virus, check out a the “quick hit” page the NEA put together that’s full of useful information broken down into manageable bites of information.
