PARAMETERS AFFECTING HERD IMMUNITY
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Title
Parameters affecting herd immunity
Description
The simulation presents dynamically and interactively the effect of four parameters (infectivity, disease duration, vaccine coverage, vaccine efficacy) on the spread of a disease over a population. The spread is visualised with a depiction of people and a graph. Students can expore the critical percentage of vaccine coverage to achieve herd immunity under conditions of free choice or representing real diseases. The parameters are be modified in real time.
Notes on pedagogical utilization
The learning object is highly recommended for inquiry or discovery-based-learning, where students practice their scientific experimentation skills in a simulation instead of a typical laboratory. Students can explore research hypotheses or questions concerning the effect of the 4 parameters on the epidemic outbreak, by modifying the parameters, collecting, organising and comparing data, and extracting conclusions. The process steps might be given, or students group might be free to choose their research design, and alternative research designs can be discussed in the classroom. Moreover, students can be given the task, in person or in small groups, to find the critical vaccination coverage for herd immunity (if existing) for authentic diseases. Students can, also, gather data to make a graph of total percentage of recovered (y axis) and vaccination rate (x axis), in order to better understand the concept of herd immunity and pro-vaccination argumentation before and during epidemic outbreaks. The use of Mathematics in Health Sciences (health numeracy) is highlighted in this simulation, as well as the as the necessity of models for Science, along with their convergences and differences from the real world.
REFERENCE URL
https://photodentro.pafse.eu/handle/8586/171
LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS
Intended end user
teacher, parent
Educational level
lower secondary, higher secondary, vocational education
Τypical age range
From 12 To 19
Language level
A2-basic knowledge
Typical intended user language
greek, english
FUNDING INFORMATION
LEARNING OBJECT
program / project: PAFSE project
PAFSE project
METADATA
program / project: PAFSE project
PAFSE project
CLASSIFICATION
Subject / Topic / Concept
Environmental Education/Education for Sustainable Development > Health & Well-being > Infectious diseases - Epidemics Public Health > Disease prevention > Vaccines and immunization Public Health > Health emergencies > Outbreaks
Learning resource type
simulation, inquiry
APPEARS IN COLLECTIONS
Learning Objects
CONTRIBUTION
CONTRIBUTORS
Technical manager: Pavlos Gaintatzis (Univesity of Ioannina)
Pedagogical coordinator: Dimitris Chalkidis (University of Ioannina)
Scientific coordinator: Tassos A. Mikropoulos (University of Ioannina)
METADATA CONTRIBUTORS
Metadata author: Dimitris Chalkidis (University of Ioannina), Tassos A. Mikropoulos (University of Ioannina)
LEARNING OBJECT / METADATA LICENSING & PUBLISHING
Licensor: Educational Approaches to Virtual Reality Technologues laboratory, University of Ioannina, Greece
Publisher: Educational Approaches to Virtual Realities Laboratory (EARTH lab), University of Ioannina, Greece, Εργαστήριο Εφαρμογών Εικονικής Πραγματικότητας στην Εκπαίδευση, Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, Ελλάδα
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Format
application/zip (5.66 MB)
Click and Play
click and play
Browser
Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Language
greek, english
IDENTIFIER
PHOTODENTRO
8586/171
LICENSE
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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