Complexity Project

1. Complexity Project Virus Transmission Through A Social Network

2. Students are numbered when entering room. • Students each get a worksheet that allows them to choose 3 activities out a set of 15. • Then students visit with 8 classmates and see if they have common favorite activities. • Students construct a diagram to show the relationships they noticed.

3. 1. Write your number here ______ 2. From the provided list choose the three activities you are most involved and write them in the blanks. ______________ ______________ _______________ Basketball Skateboarding Learning Cheerleading Pets Volleyball Music Football Socializing Shopping Job Movies Clubs Baseball/Softball Volunteering 3. You are now going to begin gathering data to build a network outlining the social connections in the class. Visit with eight people and share the three activities you choose in number two. Below record each person’s number and any activities you have in common in the blank area. Interactions: #___________ #___________ #___________ #_____________ #___________ #___________ #___________ #_____________ 4. In the space below develop a diagram that shows the connections between you and the people you visited with.

4. Students share their diagrams. • Teacher leads discussion about the best way to show the connections (a network). • Introduce nodes and edges.

5. On the back of the worksheet students will attempt to make a class network showing the social connections. • Teacher then constructs the class network on the board and announces that a few students were found to have a deadly disease. 5 7 1 3 6 8 2 4

6. Teacher leads discussion about how valid it is to use a social network for disease transmission, and what would be more valid, like proximity.

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