Ready-to-Use Pandemic Lesson Materials
The SABES PD Center in Massachusetts developed two sets of math materials on pandemics, one for ABE-level students and the other for ASE-level students. Thank you to Melissa Braaten and Sarah Lonberg-Lew for these fantastic lessons.
The links below will take you to Dropbox folders where you can download the lessons, teacher materials, and other supporting files.
These lessons are part of SABES’ resources for teaching COVID-19. They are a great way to introduce exponential growth and mathematical modeling. They also include integrated ELA activities. Students notice/wonder with simulations of disease spread, make diagrams to represent exponential growth, look at tables of COVID data, and explore the meaning of “flattening the curve.” The COVID data from the lessons is from Massachusetts. If you teach elsewhere, you may want to get local data.
Some excerpts from the lessons:
(Looking at a simulation from the Washington Post which simulates how a pandemic works)
Some other resources on teaching exponents:
