Station Eleven Lesson Plan

Herd Immunity

Kind of Activity:

Role Play

Objective:

Students will understand herd immunity and the importance of vaccinations

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1

Structure:

This activity is drawn from a more extensive lesson plan that can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/careerpaths/scienceambassador/documents/herd-immunity-2013.pdf.

Herd immunity is a situation where enough people in a population are immune to a disease to prevent its outbreak. Herd immunity is generally achieved through vaccinations. If an infected person interacts with only vaccinated people, their illness will be unable to spread; the more unvaccinated people the infected person...