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e-Bug Pack Evaluation 1 Quantitative Data Overview % % % - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
e-Bug Pack Evaluation 1 Quantitative Data Overview % % % - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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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?