Students do research to learn about West Nile Virus, the birds that carry it, how it spreads, where it can be found in North America, and how it affects humans. The activity is set up as a WebQuest where students navigate to assigned websites to locate the answers to specific questions. The student handout is provided.

Concepts

west nile virus

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Additional Tags

disease distribution, serc: mnstep: what killed tweety? an ecological exploration of west nile virus, wnv, birds that carry west nile virus, how west nile virus spreads, impact of west nile virus

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)