Final Draft Presentation 1

Lesson Plan- Epidemiological Triad

Objective: I want to show people how to identify a disease using the epidemiological triad/circle. Using these three choices that can help lead to a disease, environment, hosts and pathogen. I would like to also show people how knowing two of the choices.

Intro- I will start off by introducing epidemiology and follow with what I am going to do.

Procedure:

1. I will show my visual, my version of the epidemiological triad, and explain each part.
2. Following that I will ask the students “ Can you name a well known disease?” and write them down on the board.
3. I will pick about 1 or 2 diseases from the ones they named. I will draw the epidemiological triad.
4. I will then ask them, can anyone name where this disease is seen at/in? And if they can I will fill in the environment part.
5. I will ask in anyone knows the hosts? Then I will follow that with filling in the hosts part.
6. With that I would of have finished the epidemiological circle, and I will follow with another example of when we use the pathogen circle, and not know the disease.
7. If time allows it I will add in, when in epidemiology do we use this triad and when we only have a two or one filled in, we can still solve the disease.

Check for Understanding:
    When I am choosing a disease as an example I will choose on people to ask them, what is the environment, pathogen, ect. If they understand, they should know the right answer, if not I will ask someone to help them, since we learn best from our peers.

Senior Project Presentation 1

I will start off asking the class if they can name any diseases that they know. After writing down the list, I will choose a disease from the list given, and show how the disease relates to the Epidemiological Triad. Which is a Venn Diagram, with three circles, the first one says Host, the second one says Pathogen, and the third one says Environment, where the circles meet will say Disease. So for example, Malaria, would be the disease, The host of Malaria is a mosquito and human. The environment that Malaria is usually found in is in, humid tropical. The pathogen is a eukaryotic protists called Plasmodium. My visual would be a poster of the epidemiological triad.