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Battling Vector-Borne Diseases: Factors That Affect the Mosquito Life Cycle ActivityBattling Vector-Borne Diseases: Factors That Affect the Mosquito Life Cycle Activity
Publisher
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
14 days
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Experiment
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Technology
Scientific Equipment
Video
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Year
2018
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Battling Vector-Borne Diseases: Factors That Affect the Mosquito Life Cycle

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  • Mosquito Reference Document
  • Battling Vector-Borne Diseases: Factors That Affect the Mosquito Life Cycle (Spanish)
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Slow the spread of disease by slowing disease carriers in their tracks. Learners explore just how they might accomplish this as they experiment with the life cycle of a mosquito under different conditions. Scholars design and conduct experiments based on the conditions they feel will have the most effect. They finish by drawing conclusions based on their observations.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

diseases, communicable disease, insect life cycles, viruses, west nile virus

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Have different groups test different hypotheses
  • Compare class results with what is currently known about the mosquito survival in certain conditions

Classroom Considerations

  • Experiment requires two weeks to complete but only a few minutes each day for observations

Pros

  • Includes a teacher guide to help facilitate the lesson
  • Offers additional resources on the same topic

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.6-8.7 RST.9-10.7 WHST.6-8.1.a WHST.9-10.1.a MP1 MP2 MP3

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