e-Bug Pack Evaluation 2008/Presentation/4. Jun… · Good Microbes Student Comments • What was...

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e-Bug Pack Evaluation

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Quantitative Data Overview

Topics

%

Correct

before

%

Correct

after

%

Improvement

score

p value

Micro organisms 51 86 35 (30, 39) <0.001

Good and Bad Microbes 48 86 36 (32, 40) <0.001

Spread of Infection 79 90 10 (7, 13) <0.001

Treatment and Prevention 34 52 16 (11, 20) <0.001

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Introduction to Microbes

Micro organisms: % Improvement

(95% CI) p Value

Some microbes can make us ill 9 (3, 15) 0.004

Quantitative data

• Significant increase in student knowledge (<0.001)

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Teacher Comments

• Size cartoon very good

• White board materials very useful

• Would like the entire pack

download to be in PDF format as

well as MS Word documents

• Suggestions

– Provide photos of microbes

– Suggest to use playdoh or plasticine

to make microbes

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Student Comments

• What was the main thing they learned

– 3 different type of microbes

– Some can be useful and some harmful

– They are different sizes

– They are found everywhere

• Student Likes

– Practical activity (making /

drawing)

– Interesting facts

– Making posters

• Student Dislikes

– When teacher did the work

– Making the virus too difficult

• How enjoyable did students find the activity?

87% of students questioned either liked or loved the activity

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Our Suggestions

• Add more images of microbes on the web

• The worksheet questions should be more difficult

• Add images of activities on web

• Add recipe to make homemade playdough

• Extension Activity

– Students create an information sheet on THEIR own microbe

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Good Microbes

Teacher Comments

• Extremely difficult to make yogurt in smaller junior schools

• Have yogurt making as an extension or alternative activity

• Have something with yeast as a main activity

• Add videos of yeast action etc to teacher section on web

• Allow students to enter results onto web based excel

spread sheet

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Good Microbes

Student Comments


– Our good bacteria help fight bad bacteria

– Bacteria help aid digestion

– How to sterilise

– There are microbes in our food

• Student Likes

– Making the yogurt

– Tasting the yogurt

– Exciting

– Fun


– Writing

– Knowing that you are eating

microbes


84% of students questioned liked or loved the activity

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Our Suggestions

• Change main activity in pack to a

yeast race activity

• Keep yogurt on web as an

alternative activity

• Add videos on web of how the

activity should work

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Bad Microbes

Teacher Comments

• Add a practical activity

• Add a wordsearch programme on

the web so teachers can make

their own word searches and

crosswords

• Add links to Introduction activity

– When students make their own bad

microbe

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Bad Microbes

Student Comments


– Some bad microbes that can cause illnesses

– There are lots of different types of illnesses

• Student Likes

– Interesting

– Fun

– Pictures

– Teamwork

– Naming illnesses


– Microbe names

– Too easy

– Knowing that there are microbes

in your body



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Our Suggestions

• Add a practical activity

– Role playing or drama element?

• Add links to Introduction activity

– Suggest different ways in which

teachers may wish to use the pack

• Add a wordsearch programme on

the web so teachers can make

their own word searches and

crosswords

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Transfer of Infection


(95% CI) p Value

Bad microbes can spread from well cooked meat 5 (-6, 16) 0.40

People should wash

their hands

Before eating 11 (3, 9) 0.01

after a bath -4 (-12, 5) 0.40

Before helping to make a meal 6 (-1, 13) 0.12

After touching pets 6 (3, 9) 0.04

If people wash their hands they are less likely to get ill 5 (-1, 11) 0.12

Washing with soap and water removes more microbes

than washing with water alone 4 (-2, 11) 0.2

Sneezing into a tissue stops more microbes spreading

than sneezing into a hand 10 (2, 17) 0.02

Quantitative data


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Hand Hygiene

Teacher Comments

• Add more images

• Include why surgeons wash their

hands

• Include images of how we wash

hands, to use on whiteboards

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Hand Hygiene

Student Comments


– Its best to use warm soapy water to wash hands

– Germs spread very easily

• Student Likes

– Seeing the microbes

– Washing in hands

– Putting germs on the hands


– Finishing the activity



• Would you wash your hands more often?

– All students said YES

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Our Suggestions

• Decrease the number of

worksheets / student handouts

• Include more microbe images with

the activity

• Include images of a pre trialled

version on the teacher section of

the web – expected results

• Include more alternative materials

and methods – eg glitter glue, paint

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Respiratory Hygiene

Teacher Comments • Students really enjoyed this activity

• No need for the graph paper

• Suggestions

– Use sugar paper and water as a less

messy alternative

– Use a super soaker and chalk in the

playground

– Show some results and ask children

to think on the scenario

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Respiratory Hygiene

Student Comments


– Sneezes travel further than you think

– Cover your mouth

• Student Likes

– Practical activity

– Sneezing

– Measuring


– Waiting your turn

– Writing your results



• Would you cover your mouth when you sneezed

– ALL students said YES

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Our Suggestions

• Show some anticipated results on

the web

• Include more alternative

suggestions for materials

• Take out the graph paper

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Food Hygiene

Teacher Comments

• Very time consuming to set up

• Requires a lot of space that some

smaller schools don’t have

• Condense main activity to be more

student friendly

• Suggestions

– Switch the main activity and the

extension activity around

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Food Hygiene

Student Comments


– Cook food properly

– Wash hands often while preparing food

• Student Likes

– Seeing the microbes

– Preparing the food

– Pretending to eat it


– Listening to instructions

– Putting germs on chicken


100% of students questioned rated the activity ≥3 on a scale of 1 - 5

• Would you wash your hands more before handling food?

– ALL students said YES

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Our Suggestions

• Simplify the layout of the main

activity to be more student friendly

Possibly

• Use the extension activity as an

alternative main activity?

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Treatment and Prevention of Infection


(95% CI) p Value

Antibiotic will cure any illness 14 (3, 25) 0.01

Antibiotics kill our good microbes -10 (-17, -2) 0.04

Antibiotics help when you have a cough 12 (1, 22) 0.03


Quantitative data

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Antibiotic Use

Teacher Comments

• Require something for students to

write down

• Add a role play element

• Provide activity with blank speech

bubbles for their opinions

• Link to photo story

– Teacher can take pictures of her

class and add them into the scenario

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Antibiotic Use

Student Comments


– Don’t use other peoples antibiotics

– All antibiotics are different

– Look after yourself

• Student Likes

– Class discussions

– Role play

– Pictures / comic strip


– Discussion

– Writing


64% of students questioned liked the activity

• Would you use other peoples antibiotics

– ALL students said NO

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Our Suggestions

• Add speech bubbles online or in

handouts so students can write

down their own opinions

• Extension activity

– Use loop cards, follow me cards, or

domino style games

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Vaccines

Teacher Comments

• Least liked activity

• Could refer back to introduction

activity

– Student make a vaccine with

playdoh that interlocks with their bad

microbe

• Introduce a courtroom role play

– Was Jenner a hero or a villain

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Vaccines

Student Comments


– Jenner discovered vaccines

– Vaccines teach your body how to fight the bad microbes

• Student Likes

– Filling in story


– Too much like literacy

– Boring

– Filling in the story and

questionnaire


36% of students questioned liked this activity

• When should you get a vaccine

– 50% students said before you are ill and 50% said during your illness

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Our Suggestions

• Rethink the entire activity

• Use the courtroom role play

• Add a cartoon showing how

vaccines work

• Emphasise WHEN we should get

vaccinated

• Possibly make playdoh vaccines to

combat their own microbes made

in previous lesson?

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