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The Green Room: The Deadliest Infectious Diseases This article does a nice job of providing ways for teachers to link multiple topics areas in science. This article focuses on disease and t... See More

The Green Room: The Deadliest Infectious Diseases This article does a nice job of providing ways for teachers to link multiple topics areas in science. This article focuses on disease and the environment. Study of disease is linked to many other fields in science such as ecology, evolution, and anthropology. This article offers many interactive sites that teachers can provide for students to use and understand how all these areas of study are interconnected in understanding pathology of disease. Overall, I think this article provides good resources and encourages teachers to be creative in their lesson planning. This article allowed me to visualize ways that I can make my teaching more interdisciplinary. I could see implementing ideas from this article when teaching a lesson where students investigate the evolutionary origin of HIV by analyzing phylogenetic trees and ecological factors that contributed to the spillover of HIV from Chimpanzee populations into humans. I think that this article also provides some framework for implementation of lessons pertaining to current events in science and socio-scientific issues. For, example students may read current events related to Ebola outbreaks and break down social and ecological factors relating to spread of disease.