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Together, teams of students use their critical thinking skills and scientific knowledge to resolve disease outbreaks and try to prevent epidemics. During their mission, students become part of an emergency epidemiology team assembled to help resolve worldwide outbreaks. Stationed in a simulated Pandem Disease Center (PDC), students receive alerts from health officials in the field and must respond quickly to help prevent further disease cases.

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About This Program

Cost

By Request: $400.00
By Request Premium: $400.00


A FREE Teacher Training session for teachers/staff/administrators is included in the price of this program. Schedule on-line at www.e-missions.net. The training session is scheduled at your convenience; you name the date/time desired. Included are free online curriculum and support materials. CILC members automatically receive a discount price from $550 to $400/ mission.

Length

90 minutes


Target Audience

Education: Grade(s) 10, 11, 12

Minimum participants:

12

Maximum participants:

30


Primary Disciplines

Career Education, Health/Physical Education, Sciences Biology, Epidemiology


Program Delivery Mode

Videoconference - H.323 (Polycom, Cisco/Tandberg, LifeSize, etc...)
Videoconference – Webcam/desktop (Zoom, Google Meet, Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams, etc...)
Google Hang Out
Zoom
Skype



Booking Information

Available from 1 April 2019

Sorry, this program is not currently available. To inquire about future availability, please contact Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling University (West Virginia)

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For more information contact CILC at (507) 388-3672

Provider's Cancellation Policy

We request 24 hours notice for rescheduling or cancellation. In the event of adverse weather, please contact us as soon as possible.

About This Provider

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Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling University (West Virginia)

Wheeling, WV
United States

In addition to offering award winning, state-of-the-art programs in a $500,000 space simulator, the Challenger Learning Center, thanks to technology, brings its innovative programs to distant classrooms around the world through its electronic distance-learning programs, known as e-Missions. The CLC flies more than 800 e-Missions for schools, many located in traditionally underserved districts, each year. We provide FREE Teacher Training sessions via video conference for any of our distance learning programs.

The Challenger Learning Center® also offers adult and student learners the chance to climb aboard a space station and complete a mission in the role of astronauts, scientists, and engineers with its Corporate Missions. A successful mission requires critical thinking, leadership, cooperation, and problem solving.

Contact:
Laura Ondeck
londeck@wju.edu
3042432029

Program Details

Format

The chief epidemiologist and three specialist teams work collaboratively to:

-review case reports
-write a case definition
-make an initial diagnosis
-analyze histograms with demographic and epidemiological information
-confirm a final diagnosis, and
-write a public health report.

Objectives

The Pandem-Sim project addresses these important goals:
-Improve science education using highly engaging approaches to teaching and learning that include new technologies.
-Increase science literacy among high school students taking integrated science, biology, health, anatomy/physiology, or related classes.

Specifically, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding of:
1. Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
2. Bacterial and viral classification and structure
3. Pathogen transmission mechanisms impacting human populations
4. The human immune response

-Promote career awareness for biomedical fields among the target population.
-Create a program with the potential for widespread use.
-Create a program that considers the needs of underrepresented and underserved groups.

Standards Alignment

National Standards

The science standards addressed appear on the Pandem-Sim website at http://pandemsim.com/Standards.html and include the following:

• National Standards
• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• West Virginia Standards
• Pennsylvania Standards