CORONAVIRUS PROJECT

TEENS 2019-2020

GOALS per LEVEL

• To design an infographic detailing preventive measures against coronavirus (LEVEL

1)
• To expand what you know about common infectious diseases (LEVELS 1 and 2)
• To test and build upon what you know about coronavirus (LEVELS 1, 2, 3 and 4)
• To analyze and interpret visual information (LEVEL 4)

TASKS per LEVEL

LEVEL 1:
TASKS 1, 2 and 5

LEVEL 2:
TASKS 4, 5 and 6

LEVEL 3:
TASKS 3, 5 and 6

LEVEL 4:
TASKS 3, 7 and 8

INTRODUCTION TO THE CORONAVIRUS

Task 1: Infographic about Preventive Measures against the Coronavirus
Your goal is to create an infographic to publish in your school’s website providing basic measures students
can use to protect themselves from coronavirus.
1) Do you know what an infographic is? Check out this link to learn all you need to know about
infographics: https://venngage.com/blog/what-is-an-infographic/
2) Visit the World Health Organization link below to learn about the guidelines we should follow to protect
ourselves from getting the coronavirus: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-
2019/advice-for-public
3) Select those measures that you should to include in the infographic and summarize the vital
information.
4) Go to https://www.canva.com/ and create an account. Choose the template you want to use and start
designing!
 Read the PDF entitled How to Use Canva to help you out!

Task 2: Coronavirus Outbreak through Pictures

Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Open the Power Point Presentation entitled China’s Battle against Coronavirus. Then, look at the 10
pictures and answer the following questions:
1) Which picture has stricken you the most? Why? Describe the picture in about 50-75 words.
2) Is there any situation illustrated in the pictures similar to current events in Barcelona? Explain.
3) What measures have been taken in China to prevent the virus from spreading?
4) Give a title to each picture.

Task 3: How the coronavirus spreads

1) Before watching the video: Fill in the first column with what you know.
2) Watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jpXAMwRSu4.
3) After watching the video: Fill in the second column with what you learn.

What do we know so far?

What should I do if I
start to feel ill?

Is wearing a mask going

to protect me from this?

What is the best way to

protect myself?

Who is most at risk?

If the WHO declares this

to be a pandemic (which
has already happened),
what will change?

Are there any treatments

for this virus out there?

Do we have to learn to
live with the
coronavirus?

4) After completing the table, write down 8 new words you have learned by watching the video. Use each
term in a sentence.
 HOW DOES THE NEW CORONAVIRUS COMPARE TO OTHER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES?

Task 4: What’s the difference between SARS and MERS?

Watch the following videos to learn about SARS and MERS and answer the questions below. You can watch
the videos as many times as you need.

Video 1. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) - Nursing Study Buddy Video Library:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_UJsJcPi-A

1. What does SARS stand for?

2. What causes SARS?

3. How does the virus spread?

4. What’s the first symptom?

5. What are the most common symptoms?

Video 2. Five things you need to know about MERS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0R4LvLI17k

1. What’s MERS?

2. When it was first identified?

3. How is it transmitted?

4. What’s the main source of infections in people?

5. Is human to human transmission in households possible?

6. Can you die from MERS?

7. Is there a vaccine to treat MERS?

Task 5: Test your knowledge about infectious diseases
Find out the characteristics and symptoms of the diseases that appear in the graph. Which ones are you
familiar with? Which ones are new to you? Look for the information you need to complete the chart below
on the following links:
Common Infectious Diseases. Health Encyclopedia by University of Rochester Medical Center:
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=85&contentid=P00621
Health Direct. Infectious diseases: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/infectious-diseases

Name the disease in Catalan or Spanish Common Symptoms How do you get infected?

Measles

………………………………………

Chickenpox

………………………………………

Ebola

………………………………………
 Polio

………………………………………

Common Cold

………………………………………

Seasonal Flu or Influenza

………………………………………

Task 6: Anecdote in the PAST

Write a story about your experience getting infected and recovering from one of the diseases above. Make
sure you use and underline or highlight:

 10 linking devices
 8 terms connected to diseases
You should write about 150 words and you should follow the typical structure of a narrative:
Start your story with the following sentence: “It all happened when I was…”
Task 7: Analyzing and interpreting the graph

After looking closely at the graph above, answer these three questions:

 What do you notice? If you make a claim, tell us what you noticed that supports your claim.

 What do you wonder? What are you curious about that comes from what you notice in the graph?

 What’s going on in this graph? Write a catchy headline that captures the graph’s main idea.

The questions are intended to build on one another, so try to answer them in order. Start with “I notice,” then
“I wonder,” and end with a catchy headline. You may also use some of the language that appears in the box
to help you out.
Language for speculating
It looks to me as if…

I suppose/reckon/guess…

The graph might suggest that…

This data makes me feel/think (that) maybe…
If I had to make a guess, I’d say…
It looks to me as if…
Task 8: The Coronavirus: What Scientists Have Learned So Far
Read the following article and answer the questions below: https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-
coronavirus.html

1. In your own words, why has there been so much panic and fear in response to the coronavirus?

2. Why hasn’t the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency? How did some of the
physicians quoted in the article explain and support the W.H.O.’s decision? (On Jan. 30, the W.H.O.
declared a Global Health Emergency. What led them to make that decision?)

3. How were scientists able to identify how the virus is transmitted? What conclusions have the Chinese
Center for Disease Control and Prevention been able to reach through its observation and study?

4. How is the coronavirus similar and different from other epidemics like SARS and MERS? How does it
compare with annual influenza outbreaks? What do these comparisons tell us about how dangerous this new
virus is?

5. How did the outbreak initially happen, and why has it been so difficult to contain?

6. What can people do to protect themselves? What role are United States health officials taking to prevent
an outbreak?

*Activity from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/learning/lesson-of-the-day-what-is-the-coronavirus-symptoms-

treatment-and-risks.html

TO LEARN MORE:
• How the Coronavirus hijacks our cells:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/science/how-coronavirus-hijacks-your-cells.html
• Health Problems. Vocabulary Game: https://www.vocabulary.cl/english-games/health-
problems.htm

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Images Sources:
• Measles: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8012613/Measles-people-realise-doctors-
warn.html
• Chickenpox: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chickenpox/
• Influenza: https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-influenza-a-770484
• Common cold: https://www.medicinenet.com/common_cold/article.htm
• Ebola: https://www.tekcrispy.com/2019/10/24/virus-ebola-ataca-sistema-inmunitario/
• Polio: https://www.news-medical.net/life-sciences/Polio-Virion-Infection-(Spanish).aspx