Preventing the spread of Covid-19 Pandemic

In this WebQuest section, you will create a powerful PowerPoint or video presentation about how to prevent the spread of a pandemic that you will share with your classmates, the masses, and city officials. You will begin your assignment by using a series of steps. It is very important that you follow these steps carefully in order to achieve the best grade possible. You will be working with 8 to 9 other classmates as a team. Each team member must participate in the creation of the presentation and the research at every step along the way. The best way to begin is to ensure that you have a high performance team.

Now, it's time for you to begin to save the world! Let's begin by creating a team that can get the job done well!

PHASE 1: Getting a high-performance team

Learning to collaborate as a team is an essential skill in the classroom and in the real world. You may have had experience working for a team that failed because one or more of that team members did not do their fair share of work. Bummer huh? For this WebQuest, you will want to create a high-performance team. But this is difficult because becoming a winning team doesn't happen overnight. A great team will have to do a great deal of work to be on the same page.

In order to become a high-performance team, you have to understand the 5 stages of teams. Watch this video by Eric Sutherland on the stages of team formation. He only mentioned 4 stages since the 5th stage of team formation is adjourning, which is saying goodbye. Saying goodbye to a great team would surely be very difficult, don't you think? 4 stages of Team Formation 

If there are 5 stages to a great team formation, there are also 5 stages of team dysfunction that can break up a team. We wouldn't want that would we? Read this print on the 5 dysfunctions of a team here: 5 dysfunctions of a team and then watch this 2-minute video on the five dysfunctions of a team here: 5 dysfunctions of a team

Since you will be working as a team and working on a pandemic, you may want to read on the WHO handbook on team building here WHO handbook

Now let's start on working on your team! 

YOUR TEAM FORMATION

You are a team of 8 or 9 students. Each of you will have their own unique abilities. And you need to come together as one to succeed. As you saw in the videos, having a clear communication plan and set of agreements is very crucial in building a high-performance team. To begin you should have the following information:

• List of team members
• List of team roles (who will be your Group leader, your Liaison/spokesperson, Content researcher/s, Creatives subgroup, the Pre-testing and evaluation members) 
• List each team member's skills (who is good with what? Good with powerpoint presentation graphics, sounds, writing, etc). This of the skills each person has and make a list of those skills which could be useful in making this project. 
• Team time commitments. (when will you meet for work and how many hours are you willing to spend working on this?)
• Your initial research question

Submit this information in the form of an email to your faculty supervisor. 

Include your team member's emails and phone numbers so you can easily communicate with your faculty supervisor.

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PHASE 2: We are already in a Pandemic this month! Only you can save the world!  

The next phase of your journey is to begin to learn more about pandemics in general and the Covid-19 pandemic in particular. A pandemic, as you will learn, occurs when a communicable disease begins to spread in large numbers worldwide. And unlike an epidemic, a pandemic can potentially kill millions to billions of people. Your job will be to research and interpret statistical facts about a pandemic. 

Initial research tasks:

Using your graphic organizers to take good notes, read on recent articles and watch videos that discuss how Covid-19 has spread in China, in Italy, and in South Korea. 

• How pandemics spread link
• Read this infographic
• How Covid-19 spreads Ncov link
• Covid-19 data updates coronavirus stat

Academic Research tasks

• Use the graphic organizer to keep track of each piece of your academic research. The graphic organizer will help you to organize your research, keep track of your notes, and help you to write the PowerPoint or make you videos later. Be sure to download the attachment!
  
• Working with your team, play the game called: Solve the Outbreak. It will give you some practice understanding pandemics and outbreaks as well as how to prevent them. free app
• Working with your team, this preliminary research will help you understand what a pandemic is and how it affects people. Read this.
• You may want to read National geographic articles on pandemics. Select the articles that interest you and your team. Take good notes! Link: NatGeo articles on pandemics
• Read on the populations mostly affected by Covid-19 disease conditions 
• You may also find this video of interest: outbreak are we ready?
• Now, work with your team to find 5-6 other articles that will help you to understand more about communicable diseases and pandemics. Be sure to also get a few articles that will help you to understand more about Covid-19.
  

Primary Research Tasks

The next step in your research process will be to do some primary research to get information about the Covid-19 pandemic and pandemics directly from experts in the field. In this phase of your research, you will find experts that you can interview about your research question. You can also create polls and surveys.

• Develop a set of interview questions. See this link to learn how to create interview questions that work. Link: be an effective interviewer
• Put together a list of experts you would like to interview about Covid-19 pandemic. Don't be shy! Consider Public Health experts. Who else can you think of who might be willing to help you? What about your own family doctor? Submit your list of experts to me. We will discuss this list in class.
• Create your interview questions and submit it to me. We will peer review these items as a group. 
• Next develop a set of survey questions you can distribute to your classmates. Let's find out what they know about pandemics and the Covid-19 pandemic. Go to survey monkey to learn how to do surveys. Submit your potential survey questions to me and we will peer review it as a group.
• Once you have gathered your research ideas, conduct your interviews and surveys. Keep careful track of your results. You will need to organize your academic research into an organized manner by creating an outline. You will also want to create transcripts of the interviews, so that you can quote important things people have said. Place these items into your outline as well.
• Next, create some charts and graphs for your survey results. Use the research outline form attached to this WebQuest.
  Use PowerPoint to create some original charts and graphs or you can make your own video about the Covid-19 pandemic and preventing its spread. Let your imagination run wild!

For the academic and primary research task, create a discussion board that consists of the team members only and a separate discussion board with the faculty. Place all discussions within the board. Include the agreed upon timelines for your project.  You will submit all this to your faculty supervisor at the end of the project via email. 

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Phase 3: Get all your stuff together and save the world!

Working with your team members, create a Powerpoint presentation or a video with the following contents:

• Background information about Covid-19 pandemic, where the disease is first discovered and how quickly the disease has spread.
• Probability maps 
• Map 1 will be of the initial outbreak of the disease.
• Map 2 will be two weeks after the outbreak.
• Map 3 will be one month after the outbreak.
• Educate your audience how a pandemic spreads. Working with your team, please reflect on what you have learned about the Covid-19 pandemic. Using your local community as your case study, share with your audience what we should know about pandemics and how they spread. Be sure that you provide your audience with enough information that they understand the serious nature of pandemics and what happens when communicable diseases spread. You should include information from your academic and primary research sources here.
• Quarantines! How do we do this? The next step is to develop a viable quarantine method to contain covid-19 pandemic. Keep in mind that quarantines may mean that family and friends can be separated voluntarily or otherwise. Lethal force may even be used to separate the healthy from the sick ones. Does our country have statutes or law on quarantines or isolation? How can your team minimize the danger of the quarantine in the most humane way?
• Read: Lessons from the history of Quarantines
• Read: Quarantine and Isolation 
• Read: A history of Quarantine, from the Black Death to Typhoid Mary
• Help us understand what we must do to survive the Covid-19 pandemic. Provide your audience with as many tools and resources as you can to help ensure that we minimize the death rates and ensure many people survive. Focus on the vulnerable population - elderly, sick, and immunocompromised.
• Read ready.gov
• Try to find other resources and tools articles specific to Covid-19 that you can share with us to save our lives. 
• Conclusion. This is where you will answer your main question - What should we do to survive the Covid-19 pandemic?

**PREFERABLY YOUR OUTPUT SHOULD BE IN TAGALOG