Resources for Discussing Ebola with Your Students

My students just finished watching the movie, Guns, Germs, and Steel, based on the book by Jared Diamond.  As a follow up to watching episode 3 of the movie, they are currently researching germs and disease. I checked out a ton of books at the library to aid in their research (whose titles will probably become another post at a later date).

I was searching for some articles to use for our weekly "current events" type class.  I saw some of the articles on the Ebola outbreak.  Being that we also are in Dallas, it seemed a very relevant topic to discuss considering it also relates to what we have been discussing in Social Studies with Guns, Germs, and Steel.  The third episode of the movie also primarily focuses on the history of diseases in Africa with the Africans and the Europeans, so it makes the Ebola discussion even more relevant.

Here are some of the links and articles I found.  I know some of the latest issues of the Scholastic magazines also include articles on Ebola.

https://www.dogonews.com/2014/9/29/making-sense-of-the-ebola-virus

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/daily_videos/first-u-s-ebola-diagnosis-in-dallas/

https://newsela.com/articles/ebola-patient/id/5429/

https://newsela.com/articles/ebola-curfew/id/5333/


PBS also even has lesson plans with activities to help you discuss this topic with your students:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons_plans/ebola-outbreak-lesson-plan/

HERE is a link to some suggested answers to questions you may get from your students, put out by PBS.