Age Group:
Junior Cycle
Themes:
- Global Health/
- Leprosy/
Subjects:
- Business Studies/
- CSPE/
- Geography/
- History/
- Science/
- SPHE/
Lesson Plan: Learning from a Double Disease
Strand Five: The Biological World
Main Learning Outcome 6: Evaluate how human health is affected by: inherited factors and environmental factors including nutrition; lifestyle choices; examine the role of micro-organisms in human health.
Overview
Learners investigate the science behind the world’s oldest recorded disease: leprosy. They discover how a team of Irish scientists helped to develop a cure and problem-solve using a modern case study from Nepal.
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