STEAM Deadliest Animal

​STEAM Exploration

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What do you think is the deadliest animal in the world?

​#15

​Sharks

​<10 deaths per year

​#14

​Wolves

​< 10 deaths per year

​#13

​Lions

​100 deaths per year

​#12

​Elephant

​100 deaths per year

​#11

​Hippopotamus

​500 deaths per year

​#10

​Crocodile

​1000 deaths per year

​#9

​Tapeworm

​2000 deaths per year

​#8

​Ascaris Roundworm

​2500 deaths per year

​#7

​Freshwater Snail: (Vector for Schistosomiasis)

​10,000 deaths per year

​#6

​Assassin Bug (vector for Chagas Disease)

​10,000 deaths per year

​#5

​Tsetse fly (vector for sleeping sickness)

​10,000 deaths per year

​#4

​Dog

​25,000 deaths per year (mostly rabies)

​#3

​Snakes

​50,000 deaths per year

​#2

​Humans

​475,000 deaths per year

​#1

​Mosquito

​> 700,000 deaths per year

​Research types of mosquitoes

​https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/about/mosquitoes-in-the-us.html

Read this site and then answer the following questions.

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Multiple Choice

Which of these are mosquitoes that carry disease and are found in the United States.

• Aedes species

• Culex species

• Anopheles species

• All of these

Multiple Choice

Which of these are mosquito-carried diseases that have occured in the United States?

• Dengue fever

• Zika

• Malaria

• West Nile

• All of these

Multiple Choice

True or False: You can tell whether you are being bitten by a disease-carrying mosquito as opposed to one that is simply a nuisance species.

• True

• False

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What question(s) do you have after learning about the deadliest animals on Earth?

Type at least 1 question.

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What new questions do you have?

​What do you notice?

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View these graphics and write down what you notice.

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Initial explanation.

Use evidence from the graphics and your experience to explain what factor(s) affect the possability that a person will be exposed to disease transmission by mosquitoes.

​How is climate change affecting mosquito-borne illness transmission?

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RCPs

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View the following infographic. Use it to ​answer the question on the next slide.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AP-ujtZhTwsILv5z6o3DLjvbogYVGagz/view?usp=sharing

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Which of the Representative Concentration Pathways is closest to our current emissions? What will the long-term result be?

​Predicted Future Trends

Open this and then answer the question on the next slide. ​

Rhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1AQwzQPUC5b4IQC-kVyuHBm308mT7dYEV/view?usp=sharing

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Explain the projected trend in months of possible disease transmission from current time to 2080.

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Making Sense: How could climate change alter the threat posed by the world’s deadliest animal (mosquitoes)?