Thursday, September 30, 2010

Period 7 - Epidemic

http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih6/Inquiry/activities/activity3/activity3.htm

Above is the website we used today.
We are trying to figure out if there is an epidemic at a town. We viewed the absences and found out that there were days where everyone was at band and other days where one third of the students were absent. We found out that most of the students where out on 5/20 in all schools. We also found out that a lot of the restaurants were doing unhealthy things. In some of the schools the ceiling tiles where missing and wires where exposed. There might have been the West Nile Virus. Classes with more people had more people absent. The students where back at school very quickly so the students might have gotten better quickly.
Today we looked at the band schedule for Jackson Middle School and Truman Middle School. The Jackson Middle School and Truman Middle School seemed to do a lot of activities together. We also looked at the reasons the students were absent and the symptoms they had. Most of the symptoms where the same in both schools so the might have the same disease. When we looked at what the parents said about the students being absent, they said it might be food poisoning or the flu. They all came back to school very quickly. There might be a epidemic at the schools.
Sophie 1

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