Timely Connections: Worldwide Health Crisis
As the world confronts global health problems such as epidemics or pandemics, involve your students in an authentic lesson that looks at past primary sources to increase understanding of health related issues. Encourage students to use past and current information and digital tools to research, make informed decisions and contribute to their own and their community’s health information.
This lesson idea, which also includes guiding questions, a curated set of historical primary sources, research topics and suggested student tasks, is available on the TPS Network. It was created by TPS Mentor Cheryl Davis who works as a curriculum specialist in a high school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, helping teachers integrate lessons with digital content. Formerly a high school history and journalism teacher, Cheryl enjoys creating lessons that feature student voice and encourage student creativity. Follow her on Twitter: @digitalteacher.
Outbreak – A World Wide Heath Crisis Lesson
Related resources
- Considering the Source: Varieties of COVID-19 Information Congressional Research Service May 19, 2020
- More Congressional Research Service reports related to Covid-19
- Coronavirus Resource Guide In Custodia Legis March 20, 2020
- Coronavirus Is No 1918 Pandemic The Atlantic March 3, 2020
- The Coronavirus, Animal, and Human Health Current Context, California History-Social Science Project March 5, 2020
- Creating the Historical Record for the Future, One Student at a Time Kevin M. Levin March 14, 2020
- Primary Source Spotlight: Influenza
- A severe pandemic is not overdue – it’s not when but if Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota February 22, 2007
- Planning for the Next Global Pandemic International Journal of Infectious Diseases August 04, 2015
- Pandemic and Civic Virtue: The American Red Cross and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 Teaching with the Library of Congress
- Swatting the Fly: Conceptualizing Problems and Solutions around the Spread of Disease Teaching with the Library of Congress
- “This malignancy, it was right at our very doors.” Using Manuscripts to Study the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 Teaching with the Library of Congress
More lessons
- Believe in the Power of Your Own Story: Connect Your Story to America’s Story Ruth Ferris via TPS Teachers Network
- Pandemic and Civic Virtue: The American Red Cross and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 Teaching with the Library of Congress via Citizen U