Outbreak project page

 

Project Summary

This project was... awsome? great? cool? Yes, yes, and yes. Out of all the projects we have done so far this one was the best. I really did not like the other projects, like the Shrub Steppe project, and the Salmon V Dams project. The Outbreak project was by far the best project to me. We learned many things like the Influenza, and many other diseases that killed many people around the world. When a outbreak starts and is killing people around the world, its called a pandemic. A pandemic is a world-wide outbreak of a disease, like the influenza or the swineflu. Influenza was also known as the 1918 pandemic. The influenza killed millions, and millions of people. Around the world it killed around 40 million people and in the United Stateds it killed 650,000 people.

Skills I have learned in this project... Staying on task, not getting easily distracted, and doing my work. On the other projects I found them very boring so I dident seem to work on them as hard at all. I never really stayed on task, I always got distracted by other students and dident do my work. This project I did very well because I found it really intresting. All the pandemic stuff and epidemic stuff, and what to do if a pandemic was to come around and how to keep from getting the disease. I had a group i worked with and we all really worked hard and created a page with other pages attached and links telling how you could keep safe from the pandemic, how you could prevent it, and you can treat yourself and others when exposed to it. There are many things you can do, but if you get the diseases you could be in trouble. Doctors at hospitals would make their sick patients just lay in bed, day in and day out. 

The content I learned during this project was... How to work together, work as a team, help others when they need help, do my work, becomeing a team member. I learned many more things than just these I wrote down. I worked very hard this project learning many things that I never heard of and never even thought of or wandered of. Learning this content I have writtin down was not very hard to learn, I just had to focus and pay attention to what the teacher was saying. All this content I have learned has helped my very much throughout this project and I dont think I could have done it without it. Now viruses are very dangerous, they kill millions of people and make tons of people sick. Some viruses like the Influenza are deathly airborn. The influenza was a virus that would travel through air and if someone breathed it in their system they could get sick from it. People could get it by simply talking and breathing. People who cough and sneeze make a lot of the virus come out and for sure get someone sick. There are also waterborn diseases which travel in rivers oceans and lakes. People could get it by simply just drinking from their waterfoutain. The cells in the body see the virus as food at first and let it in the cell. Once the virus gets in the cell will be taken over. If the cell notices that the thing trying to get in is not food and notices it is a virus it kills the virus. If the person gets sick with a virus and heals and lives and gets rid of the virus, the person becomes immune. How does the person become immune? Well the person becomes immune because once the cells have killed the virus and if they see the virus again, they will remember it.

Evidence of Learning

http://wshsjakes.posterous.com/pandemic-research

Here is a link to one of my work samples, i simply could not find out how to upload work from the button. This link i have put up shows a page I have created. The page has three links to websites i have found and find pretty trustworthy. I do not think they are fake they seem pretty good, and true. On the link i have just put up i wrote about the links on them and what they are about.

http://wshsjakes.posterous.com/reflection-213

I included this link because it is very simple and easy, and i couldent really find any other good things to link to my work samples.

A not for the school nurse

This link is to a page I created on my own telling a school nurse what he/she would have to do with a room full of sick kids and a pandemic hittiing their school.

How to help

Here is another page I have created on me and my groups website that i think is a very well link. It tells people how they can help with other sick people and themselfs.

Project Reflection

My strengths were... This whole project? I feel like I have done really well! better then all the other projects and assignments this year. I have gotten really good grades this project.

My weaknesses... I dont feel I have really had any weaknesses this project.

If I had this project to do over I would... I would work alittle harder and pay more attention. I payed a lot of attention in the project but there were a few times that i dident pay attention and missed a couple of really good things.