Thurs. 1/14 - Disease Prevention in Medieval China

Thurs. 1/14 - Disease & Medicine

Disease Prevention & Medicine in China

Warm Up: Timed Pair Share

• In-person: with your partner, you will have 2 minutes to answer the questions about the images on the next slides. If you're virtual, you may work with someone in the chat, or individually.

• 1) What do you think is going on in this image? AND

• 2) What do you want to know about this image?

• Then, record your answers on the slides. We will share out as a class.

Open Ended

1) What do you think is going on in this image?

2) What do you want to know about this image?

Open Ended

1) What do you think is going on in this image?

2) What do you want to know about this image?

Learning Targets

• I can describe Chinese advancements in medicine during the Song dynasty.

• I can explain how the Chinese prevented the spread of disease.

Open Ended

Answer the following question using 1-2 complete sentences. How can disease affect a country, besides the health of its people?

Disease Prevention

Today, we'll be reading a passage about how the Chinese responded to diseases in medieval times.

Vocabulary Warm Up

• Inoculate - to protect against disease by transmitting a disease-causing substance to a person. This stimulates the body's defense against the disease.

• Immune System - the body's natural defense against disease

• Vaccine - a substance used to immunize people against a disease

Anticipation Guide - Before Reading

Please open "Thurs. 1/14 Assignment" on Google Classroom, and click

- "Anticipation Guide" AND

- "Reading Passage"

Read the statements, then, in the "Before Reading" column, check whether you think they are true or false.

We will take 5 minutes to complete this.

Anticipation Guide - After Reading

• Read the passage

• After you have read, go back to your anticipation guide. In the "after reading" column, mark whether the statement is true or false based on what you have read.

• We will take 10 minutes to complete this.

Let's review as a class...

How did you respond to these statements?

Multiple Choice

True or False:

A Buddhist monk first discovered the method of inoculation, which used scab powder to immunize (protect) a person against smallpox.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Smallpox spread through the air.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Chinese physicians took a scab from an infected person and made it into a powder. Then, they inserted the powder in the nose of a person they wanted to immunize.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Vaccines helped to eradicate (get rid of) smallpox by the 20th century.

• True

• False

Open Ended

Exit Slip:

In 1-2 sentences, explain how Chinese advancements in medicine have impacted our modern world.