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Exemplar Story Collection
6th-8thScience and Engineering
Riley's Story on Epidemics and Pandemics
8th
45-60 min
Science, Interpreting Graphs
Created by Beth Selig, Fuquay-Varina Middle School, North Carolina
Graphs are a challenge for middle school students to analyze and interpret the meaning. The story is designed to complement the graphs, so that students can interpret and analyze the data on epidemics and pandemics.
Connects to Standard: LS.8.1.2 Analyze and interpret data to explain the difference between epidemic and pandemic as it relates to the spread, treatment and prevention of disease.