Subject:
Science Grade: 3
Standard:
Living Environment 4
Key Concept:
Diseases can be infectious or non-infectious.
Generalization:
Some diseases are caused by germs and some are not. Diseases caused by germs may be spread to
other people. There are ways to reduce
the number of germs that can get into the body or that can be passed on to
other people.
Background:
The class has been studying infectious and noninfectious diseases. In this lesson the students will explore
ways people can help lessen the number of disease-causing germs that enter the
human body. Students will watch and discuss the video “Germs Make Me Sick.”
Copies of the book, Germs Make Me Sick, and
Science and Health text books will be available for students to use as
references. (This is a 3rd
grade standard, but the 2nd grade Science text, unit E, focuses on
this specific standard, and is a very good resource.)
Tiered in:
product
Tiered according to: learning style
Tier I:
Kinesthetic
Students will create and present a skit or series of
skits, portraying different germs and their attempts to enter a human’s body
and the steps the human takes to block the germs’ invasion.
e.g. One
student is a cold germ, one student is a person with a cold, and a third student
is a person taking steps to avoid allowing the cold germ to get into his/her
body.
Tier II:
Visual
Students will create posters that relate health
practices that help prevent the spread of disease. Each poster will address a specific disease of related group of
diseases.
e.g. A
poster could focus on getting immunizations to prevent the spread of measles,
mumps, etc.
Tier III:
Linguistic
Students will create crossword puzzles using related
vocabulary words and concepts.
This might include such words as infectious,
symptom, germs, etc.
Assessment: Products will be assessed based on
rubrics provided students at beginning of project.