Teacher Center
TB is a worldwide pandemic, killing 2 million people each year. It’s important that all members of the global community, including students, understand TB, its causes and its consequences. The two three-session units available as PDFs below are designed to engage high school students in the content of the Epidemic TB website. The units, one developed for use in a social studies setting and the other for use in health-related contexts, engage students in an exploration of the personal and social consequences of TB, both in the countries pictured on the website (South Africa, Moldova, and India) and in their own lives. The activities are group-oriented and intended to stimulate conversation and sharing in the classroom. These units can be used in conjunction with the TB Action Packet, which is designed to teach students that, once they are informed on the issues, they can be actors that bring about change in their community and beyond. PDFs of the two units can be downloaded by clicking the links below:
Proposing Solutions, Saving Lives: A Global TB Conference–Social Studies Unit
Sharing Information, Saving Lives: Creating a TB Media Campaign–Health Unit
Please let us know if you use these materials either by sending us an email (info@tbepidemic.org) or posting on our Facebook page.
Resources
These resources are intended to be used in conjunction with teaching the units.
Resources to Accompany "Proposing Solutions, Saving Lives: A Global TB Conference"
Lesson 1
No resources necessary.
Lesson 2
Proposals for Fighting TB
TB Vaccine
AERAS Global TB Vaccine Foundation–Need for TB Vaccines
ArabNews.com–Progress in tuberculosis vaccine research
Centers for Disease Control–Tuberculosis: TB Vaccine
TB and Poverty
Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally (ACTION)–TB Champions
Health and Development Initiative India–TB & Poverty
MDR-TB
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria–A Personal Struggle to Overcome Stigma and Disease in the Philippines
PBS–Rx for Survival, Deadly Diseases, TB
TB and HIV
Globalization 101: The Levin Institute–The Link Between TB and HIV
Centers for Disease Control–TB and HIV Coinfection
Isolation Rooms
Infection Control Today–Creating TB Isolation Rooms
Nursing Times–The ethics of legally detaining a patient who has tuberculosis
Lesson 3
No resources necessary.
Resources to Accompany "Sharing Information, Saving Lives: Creating a TB Media Campaign"
Lesson 1
Media Campaigns about Health Issues
The Ad Council
AVERT–Historical HIV/AIDS Posters
Best Design Options–30 hard-to-ignore anti-smoking ads
Flu.gov–Know What to Do About the Flu
The Design Inspiration–The Top 45 Creative Anti-Smoking Advertisements
The Truth
Lesson 2
If students need more information about TB, direct them to Additional Resources.
Lesson 3
These tools are examples of tools which students can use to create their informational campaigns.
Creating Multimedia Presentations
Adobe–Premiere Elements 9
Apple–iLife: iMovie
Microsoft–PhotoStory 3
University of Houston–The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Creating Audio Presentations
Apple–GarageBand
Audacity
Visual Edge–Sound in the Story
Radio Diaries–Teen Reporter Handbook
Poster-Making Websites
FreePosterMaker.com
Web Poster Wizard