Student Work

Email Assignment

How fast and how far does the virus spread?  Let's find out.  Email five of  your fellow students the following message:

    "Tag.  You have just been infected with the ebola virus.  Please forward this message to five other students and CC it to original sender.  This is a class project so please don't break the ebola virus spread."

We will count the number of replies you get in five class days.

The Hot Zone  Simulation

    The following headline appeared in this morning’s Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan: First Case of Ebola Virus Diagnosed at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital.

  1.    Your assignment, as a group, is to construct a simulation of the events that follow this headline.  What would happen in our community if there were an outbreak of Ebola in Yankton?  What kind of people or groups would be needed to deal with it?  Where has it come from?  What will doctors, law enforcement, the state, local and federal government do?  What will the general population do? What will be the outcome?  How many will die?  How many survive?  What new emergency laws might be passed? 

 2.   Your group has full autonomy in the procedure you use in this assignment.  You can determine what kind of research you must do, what responsibilities each member of your group must take, how much you will do outside of class and how much in class. 

3.    Finally, your group will decide how you will present your simulation.  Some possible methods might include a carefully kept, day by day journal of the events in the community, a newspaper of all events that occurred during this outbreak, a PowerPoint presentation, a videotaped presentation, a web page with links to significant websites and with details of the outbreak including pictures, an in class presentation of your simulation and findings.

Whatever method you choose, you must submit a bibliography of sources used in MLA format.  

    How you proceed and how you present is up to your group.  You will be given 5 class days to work in class, so some of this work will necessarily be done outside of class.  You decide how much of each.  It is expected that all members of your group will be actively involved in both constructing, researching and presenting the simulation.  It is also expected that all group members will be actively involved in the project in class all five days.  

Rubric:

Research evident                                               20 Pts

Quality of Presentation                                     25 Pts

Evidence of high quality work/thought              20 Pts

Individual contribution                                     20 Pts

On Task in class                                                 15 Pts