Guns, Germs, and Steel Lesson Plan

Pandemic: Letter to a Population in Crisis

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will be able to use information from various sources to draft a hypothetical response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.8

Structure:

Students will research COVID-19 compared to past epidemics/pandemics. Assign individual students different past outbreaks to research (for example, the bubonic plague of 1346, the influenza outbreak of 1918, the Ebola outbreak of 2018, or the SARS outbreak of 2002) and compare to what the world faces in 2020. Establish the differences...