Activity adapted from: Detectives in the Classroom

1. Source Activity adapted from: Detectives in the Classroom http://www.montclair.edu/pages/detectives/index.html More information on Epidemiology found at: CDC Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology http://www.cdc.gov/excite

2. Epidemiologist / Disease Detective Epidemiologist / Disease Detective An investigator who studies the occurrence of disease in populations of people for the purpose of preventing or controlling health problems. Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why are these students getting sick

3. Epi Talk Epidemiology Answers the question - how and why some people get sick and others do not. Detectives in the Classroom - http://www.montclair.edu/pages/detectives/index.html

4. Epi Talk Epidemiology Can be divided into two types of studies: Experimental Observational A. analytical B. descriptive Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why Are These Students Getting Sick?

5. Disease Distribution Analytical Epidemiology Determines the role of a risk factor in causing the problem. Answers the questions: How Why Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why Are These Students Getting Sick?

6. How? How is “DZ” spread out in the class? Is there a pattern? What do “DZ” people have in common? How is “DZ” distributed? Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why Are These Students Getting Sick?

7. How? How is “DZ” distributed? They are sitting next to the computers. Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why Are These Students Getting Sick?

8. __________ causes “DZ.” Why? Why is the “DZ” distributed like this? Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why Are These Students Getting Sick?

9. They are all men. How? How is “DZ” distributed? Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why Are These Students Getting Sick?

10. __________ causes “DZ.” Why? Why is the “DZ” distributed like this? Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why Are These Students Getting Sick?

11. Descriptive Epidemiology Descriptive Epidemiology Characterizes and summarizes the health problem. Formulates a hypotesis by answering the questions: Who Where When Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1.1: Why Are These Students Getting Sick?

12. Investigation 1-3 What’s My Hypothesis?Need to answer who, where, and when Whistles Detectives in the Classroom - http://www.montclair.edu/pages/detectives/index.html

13. Whistles Descriptive Epi Descriptive Epi Who? Person: Where? Place: When? Time: #: Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

14. Whistles Descriptive Epi Who? Descriptive Epi Person: Lifeguards, Drum Majors, Referees , Coaches, Traffic Policemen Place: Time: Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

15. Whistles Where? Descriptive Epi Person: Lifeguards, Drum Majors, Referees , Coaches, Traffic Policemen Place: Mouth, Pools, seashore, gymnasiums, athletic fields, intersections Time: Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

16. Whistles When? Descriptive Epi Person: Lifeguards, Drum Majors, Referees , Coaches, Traffic Policemen Place: Mouth, Pools, seashore, gymnasiums, athletic fields, intersections Time: Hot days, schooldays, after school, holidays Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

17. Person, Place, and Time Descriptive Epi Person: Lifeguards, Drum Majors, Referees , Coaches, Traffic Policemen Place: Mouth, Pools, seashore, gymnasiums, athletic fields, intersections Time: Hot days, schooldays, after school, holidays Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

18. Person, Place, and Time Descriptive Epi Activity Write up a Descriptive study. Learn to formulate a hypothesis based on the data from the someone else’s Descriptive Study. study. Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

19. Whistles Person, Place, and Time In groups of 4-5 people Descriptive Epi Sheet 4 Person: Place: Time: #: Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

20. Descriptive Epi Person: Lifeguards, Drum Majors, Referees , Coaches, Traffic Policemen Place: Mouth, Pools, seashore, gymnasiums, athletic fields, intersections Time: Hot days, schooldays, after school, holidays #: 4 PPT Who? Where? When? Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

21. Epi Teams Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

22. Card # My Hypothesis Other Hypotheses Descriptive Epi Person: _4__ Lifeguards, Drum Majors, Referees , Coaches, Traffic Policemen Place: Mouth, Pools, seashore, gymnasiums, athletic fields, intersections _____ Time: Hot days, schooldays, after school, holidays _____ #: 4 _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ What’s My Hypothesis? Detectives in the Classroom Name: _______________________________ “What’s My Hypothesis?” Chart I think the cause is sun screen Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

23. Epi Teams Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?

24. Card # My Hypothesis Other Hypotheses _5__ _1__ _14__ _4__ _8__ _____ What’s My Hypothesis? Detectives in the Classroom Name: _______________________________ “What’s My Hypothesis?” Chart I think the cause is sun screen I think the cause is whistles I think the cause is keys I think the cause is cars I think the cause is flashlight I think the cause is batteries I think the cause is curling iron I think the cause is hair spray I think the cause is pencils I think the cause is crayons Detectives in the Classroom - Investigation 1-3: What’s My Hypothesis?