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Lesson 3-6: The Elusive Malaria Vaccine

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Time

Engaging the Student (Entry Task) 

Developing the Ideas--Lesson

Checking for Understanding (exit ticket)

Student Handout 
Teacher/Lesson Notes
Materials

1-2 class periods

Ask students:

 

  • Based on what they've learned so far, why do they think we do not yet have a vaccine for malaria?

Have students use their own notebooks to write down the following questions:

 

TED TALK QUESTIONS:

 

  1. Name of your TED talker?
  2. Who are they/what do they do?
  3. What problem do they present?
  4. Why is this a problem?
  5. What have been the challenges in solving the problem? 
  6. How are they seeking to solve this problem?
  7. What do you think of their approach to solving the problem?

 

ARTICLE QUESTIONS:

 

  1. Title & year of the article? 
  2. Author of the Article? 
  3. What problem is being presented in the article?
  4. Why is this a problem?
  5. What have been the challenges in solving the problem? 
  6. What does the article say about what's being done to solve this problem?
  7. What do you think of this approach to solving the problem?

 

 

 

 

 

In this lesson, you'll divide students up into groups and utilize TED TALK videos to take a jigsaw approach to have students learn about current advances, innovations, research and strategies being developed to fight malaria. 

 

Assign each group one of the TED TALKS listed in the Materials section as well as one of the Articles listed. Have students watch their Ted Talk and read their assigned article and complete the questions listed under "Student Handout". 

 

Set a time in which the class will come back together and each group will share-out about what they learned using their question/answer sheet to help guide their talk.

  • Computers with access to the internet

 

TED TALKS:

  • Bill Gates: Mosquitos, Malaria and Education (Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them)
  • Nathan Myhrvold: Could This Laser Zap Malaria? (Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions - as brilliant as they are bold - remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo of a new, mosquito-zapping gizmo you have to see to believe.)
  • Bart Knols: Cheese, Dogs and a Pill to Kill Mosquitoes and End Malaria (We can use a mosquito's own instincts against her. Speaker Bart Knols demos the imaginative solutions his team is developing to fight malaria -- including limburger cheese and a deadly pill)
  • Sonia Shah: 3 Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten Rid of Malaria (We’ve known how to cure malaria since the 1600s, so why does the disease still kill hundreds of thousands every year? It’s more than just a problem of medicine, says journalist Sonia Shah. A look into the history of malaria reveals three big-picture challenges to its eradication.)
  • Hadyn Parry: Re-Engineering Mosquitos to Fight Disease (In a single year, there are 200-300 million cases of malaria and 50-100 million cases of dengue fever worldwide. So: Why haven’t we found a way to effectively kill mosquitos yet? Hadyn Parry presents a fascinating solution: genetically engineering male mosquitos to make them sterile, and releasing the insects into the wild, to cut down on disease-carrying species.)

 

ARTICLES:

 

 

 

Have students answer the following:

 

  1. Name 3 approaches that are currently being taken to help solve the malaria problem.
  2. Which approach that you heard about today makes you feel the most hopeful? Why? 

 

 

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