This document defines key terms like disease, vaccination, chicken pox, strep, and mumps. It explains that diseases can be prevented by vaccination or cured by medication. It notes that humans typically only catch diseases like chicken pox once because the body develops immunity, while colds and ear infections can reoccur due to multiple virus types. The document encourages identifying diseases that can be prevented by vaccines and discussing diseases students are unlikely to contract.

1. Diseases—What and how to prevent diseasesBy Hajja Baize9/15/09

2. Science Standard 4—The Living EnvironmentIndicator 4.4.11Taken from http://dc.doe.in.gov/Standards/AcademicStandards/StandardSearch.aspxLink to activity http://www.indianastandardsresources.org/files/sci_4_4_11pdf

3. DefinitionsDisease—an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning.Vaccination—a precaution against contracting a disease.Chicken pox—contagious disease, usually in children, caused by a virus and marked by low grade fever and blister spots.Strep—Spherical Gram plus bacteria occurring in pairs or chains usually in throat.Mumps—Acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands.

4. Background InformationDiseasesImpairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning that can either be cured by a shot which includes medicine or prevented from the beginning by a vaccination.

5. Diseases (think of diseases)Three Columns on boardCaught onceCaught lotsCaught never

6. Diseases—How do you catch each one?Which do you catch only once? (Fill in chart)Which make you sick lots of times? (Fill in chart)Which have you heard of before, but never caught? (Fill in chart)

7. Diseases—Nothing, vaccination, or shot with medicine?Explain that most humans only get sick once from diseases, like chicken pox, because after you have it your body recognizes it and can fight it again.Explain that diseases like a cold or ear infection make us sick lots of times because the diseases have more than one type.Explain that some shots contain medicine and can help prevent against the disease of that type, while others contain vaccines that prevent all types of that disease.

8. DiscussionDiscuss with them the diseases they will more than likely not get sick from and list them.CompletionHave students fill out rest of chart telling you which diseases have vaccines and check next to each disease that contains a vaccine and discuss with class.

9. ReferencesDoehttp://dc.doe.in.gov/Standards/AcademicStandard /StandardSearch.aspxActivityhttp://www.indianastandardsresources.org/files/sci_4_4_11pdfOther referenceshttp://www/google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Amumpshttp://www/google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Astrephttp://www/google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Achicken+poxhttp://www/google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Avaccination