Synopsis:  Each student is assigned an exposure and, assuming the exposure causes a disease, writes a description of how a hypothetical disease would be distributed in terms of person, place, and time.  Students then review each other's descriptions and formulate one or more hypotheses for each.  When students compare their hypotheses, they realize that a given distribution of a health-related outcome can lead to the formulation of several different educated guesses.

All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making, and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.

All students will use health-enhancing personal, interpersonal, and life skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

All students will understand and apply the knowledge of sounds, letters, and words in written English to become independent and fluent readers, and will read a variety of materials and texts with fluency and comprehension.

All students will speak in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.

All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.

All students will demonstrate critical life skills in order to be functional members of society.