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e-Bug Pack Evaluation 1 Quantitative Data Overview % % % Topics Correct Correct Improvement p value before after score Micro organisms 51 86 35 (30, 39) <0.001 Good and Bad Microbes 48 86 36 (32, 40) <0.001 Spread


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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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Introduction to Microbes

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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Introduction to Microbes

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

  • What was the main thing they learned

– 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

  • Student Dislikes

– Writing – Knowing that you are eating microbes

  • How enjoyable did students find the activity?
  • 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

  • What was the main thing they learned

– Some bad microbes that can cause illnesses – There are lots of different types of illnesses

  • Student Likes

– Interesting – Fun – Pictures – Teamwork – Naming illnesses

  • Student Dislikes

– Microbe names – Too easy – Knowing that there are microbes in your body

  • How enjoyable did students find the activity?
  • 69% of students questioned liked or loved the activity
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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

Micro organisms: % Improvement (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

  • Significant increase in student knowledge (<0.001)
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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

  • What was the main thing they learned

– 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

  • Student Dislikes

– Finishing the activity

  • How enjoyable did students find the activity?
  • 86% of students questioned liked or loved 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

  • What was the main thing they learned

– Sneezes travel further than you think – Cover your mouth

  • Student Likes

– Practical activity – Sneezing – Measuring

  • Student Dislikes

– Waiting your turn – Writing your results

  • How enjoyable did students find the activity?
  • 100% of students questioned liked or loved the activity
  • 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

  • What was the main thing they learned

– Cook food properly – Wash hands often while preparing food

  • Student Likes

– Seeing the microbes – Preparing the food – Pretending to eat it

  • Student Dislikes

– Listening to instructions – Putting germs on chicken

  • How enjoyable did students find the activity?
  • 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

Micro organisms: % Improvement (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

  • Significant increase in student knowledge (<0.001)

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

  • What was the main thing they learned

– Don’t use other peoples antibiotics – All antibiotics are different – Look after yourself

  • Student Likes

– Class discussions – Role play – Pictures / comic strip

  • Student Dislikes

– Discussion – Writing

  • How enjoyable did students find the activity?
  • 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

  • What was the main thing they learned

– Jenner discovered vaccines – Vaccines teach your body how to fight the bad microbes

  • Student Likes

– Filling in story

  • Student Dislikes

– Too much like literacy – Boring – Filling in the story and questionnaire

  • How enjoyable did students find the activity?
  • 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?