Class Activities - CAP 074 - College & Academic Prep (Foeller)

Whiteboard Brainstorming

In your groups, on the whiteboard, please write:

your disease
some words or phrases related to your disease (Does it go by another name? What do you already know about it?)
some focus words from your assignment (Look at the 9 questions you need to answer in your final presentation--what are the important words?)

Questions from Assignment

Information needed for the presentation piece of this assignment:

a) What is the history of the disease, when and where was in first discovered?
b) What are the symptoms of the disease? How is it diagnosed?
c) How does a person contract the disease?
d) What is the prognosis for the patient? (How long will they remain sick, will they die, are they contagious, will there be lingering effects.)
e) How can the disease be treated or cured?
f) How can the disease be prevented? Are there vaccines or antibiotics?
g) What is the future of this disease, are we likely to every cure it? Is the disease useful in some other way?
h) Interesting facts or trivia about the disease, interesting cases or famous (infamous) people related to the disease
i) How does this disease affect our world? Why should we care?

MLA Citation Practice

Group 1:

Odle, Teresa G. "Disease Outbreaks." The Gale Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, edited by Jacqueline L. Longe, Gale, 2013, pp. 226-228. Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL.reference&sw=w&u=clark_integrated&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX2760200082&asid=30d57d193eaca59972692a8bd8270387. Accessed 1 May 2017.

Group 2:

Pierce, Marcia M. “Disease Outbreaks in Livestock Due to Global Warming.” AccessScience, McGraw-Hill Education, 2009.

Group 3:

JALONICK, MARY C. "Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Deadliest in US with 23 Deaths." Charleston Daily Mail, October 13, 2011, ProQuest, https://clarkcollege.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/897946723?accountid=1157.

Group 1 Bonus:

The Economist. "Don't Inhale; South Korea and MERS." vol. 415, no. 8942, Jun 13, 2015, pp. 40-41, ProQuest, https://clarkcollege.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1688010799?accountid=1157.

Group 2 Bonus:

LaPensee, Kenneth T. "Public health and infectious disease." Infectious Diseases: In Context, edited by Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, Gale, 2008, 665-672. go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL.reference&sw=w&u=clark_integrated&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CCX3045200192&asid=926d55eda166f5c592e4c3f755c9921c.

Group 3 Bonus:

Kareiva, P. M. Disease Ecology. AccessScience, McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. AccessScience, https://www.accessscience.com/content/disease-ecology/757539.

CAP 074 - College & Academic Prep (Foeller): Class Activities