Virtual Field Trip: Climate and Disease
Summary:
Travel to Colombia to meet Camilo Mora, professor and scientist who studies how human activities impact the natural world. Professor Mora will share some of his knowledge about how diseases spread. He’ll teach students about how climate change is impacting the spread of disease and share some real world examples.
Activity
Students will create a model of one vector, the tick, and will label the parts of its body. Students will then create “Disease Personality Cards” that detail the attributes of different diseases. Finally, students will create a “Now and Then Weather Report” that shows a historical weather report as well as a current one for one city in which one disease thrives. They’ll create a graph to show the change of temperature in that city over time.
Connections to Other Resources
This virtual field trip is included in the Stop the Spread Project.Â
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Overview & Materials
Subject: Science, ELA
Grade: 3-5
Topic: Disease Spread, Climate Change
Materials Needed:
- Modeling clay (or other preferred materials)
- Paper or labels
- Writing tools
- Tagboard or construction paper
- Scissors
- Markers or coloring tools
Project Materials
Aligned Standards
Common Core Reading (CCSS):
- Informational/Nonfiction Standards R.I. 1-10 for grades 3-5
- Writing Standards W. 3.2 for grades 3-5
NGSS Standards:
Performance Expectations (PE):
- 3-ESS2-2. Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
- 4-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment.
Science and Engineering Practices (SEP):
- Obtain and combine information from books and other reliable media to explain phenomena.
- Ask questions based on observations to find more information about the natural and/or designed world(s).
- Develop and use models.
Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI):
- ESS2.D Weather and Climate. Climate describes a range of an area’s typical weather conditions and the extent to which those conditions vary over years
- ESS3.A Natural Resources. Energy and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources, and their use affects the environment in multiple ways. Some resources are renewable over time, and others are not.
Crosscutting Concepts (CC):
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- Patterns of change can be used to make predictions.
- Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified and used to explain change.
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