Vaccine Whiz Kids (Level 2)
This activity module aims for children to build awareness and understanding about how vaccines have made a positive impact on people's health through games and activities. The learning objectives are to develop an understanding of vaccine-preventable diseases and how vaccines have had a positive impact on helping protect people over the past four or five centuries, and to communicate an understanding of how vaccine-preventable diseases differ.
Aim: Children will learn the names of some diseases that are prevented by vaccines as an introduction to the topic of vaccines.
Ignite interest – engage children in conversation about diseases they may have heard of or know about that vaccines are used to help prevent.
Time: 10-15 minutes
Aim: Children develop knowledge about vaccine-preventable diseases.
Ignite interest – engage children in conversation about how there are vaccines that help protect people against certain diseases. Each disease can cause harm to our bodies in different ways.
Time: 20-25 minutes
Aim: Children will learn why viruses and bacteria are different and what it means for our bodies.
Ignite interest – engage children in conversation about how vaccine-preventable diseases are caused by either viruses or bacteria.
Time: 15-20 minutes
Aim: Children learn about the transmissibility of diseases and how vaccines protect us.
Ignite interest – engage children in conversation about how infectious diseases that are spread through the air by coughing and sneezing can be measured by how quickly they spread.
Time: 20-25 minutes
Aim: Children learn about the transmissibility of diseases and how vaccines protect us.
Ignite interest – explain that people use predictions to help make decisions on what to do or expect. Often, they will think about what are the chances (probability) of something happening.
Time: 20-25 minutes
Aim: Children learn about how community immunity helps protect everyone.
Ignite interest – engage children in conversation about how, when a certain percentage of the population is immunized against an infectious disease that is spread from person to person, it protects everyone.
Time: 20-25 minutes
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