A Hands-On Simulation of Disease Transmission
This abstract describes a simple exercise which simulates disease transmission using basic solutions which can be identified using phenol red.

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Factors Affecting the Spread of Disease in Human Populations
This resource is a detailed manual of protocols and instructional information for carrying out an undergraduate laboratory exercise in epidemiology, including student outlines,pre-lab questions, instr...

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Introducing Freshmen to Experimental Design
Advocates of science education reform have encouraged us to replace our traditional “cookbooktype labs” with investigative or inquiry-based lab experiences (Beyond Biology 101, 1996; Fox and Hackerm...

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Koch's Crickets: A Study in Etiology
Students apply Koch's Postulates in an attempt to discover the causative agent of "Pink Plague" a disease that has struck a group of commercially raised crickets. During the course of this exercise th...

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Personal Behavior and Partner’s Sexual History:a Simulation of the Spread of HIV
In this hands-on simulation students evaluate factors associated with the spread of HIV. Each student begins the simulation with an “uninfected” solution. They sequentially mix their solution with a v...

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