Content Objectives
Having taught Anatomy and Physiology for 15 years, I have some leverage in what content I present to my students as long as Next Generation Standards are addressed. This year with the change to distance learning/virtual learning and the pandemic that we are facing my curriculum has to change. With a captive audience naturally inquisitive about viruses, I know my students’ minds are open for molding and shaping, allowing me to infuse not just a study on Coronavirus but also on how other emerging diseases are related to one another. I want my students to see that this pandemic is likely not a one-time occurrence in their lifetimes, and that there are related potential causes that are linked to drivers of emerging diseases. Through a study of how we, as caretakers of earth, often become exploiters that cause destruction and irreparable damage we affect so many other creatures to our detriment. In this unit, I will discuss the emergence of Nipah Virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and SARS-Coronavirus 2/COVID -19 (Cov-19) and share studies that link habitat loss and change to emerging diseases. This unit can be adapted for Biology and Environmental Science classes though it is intended for Anatomy and Physiology 11th and 12th grades students
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