MedMyst: Animal Alert! Students learn how epidemiologists, microbiologists, and veterinarians work as a team to solve infectious disease outbreaks.
Date
2011
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Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning
Rice University, Houston Texas
Rice University, Houston Texas
Abstract
Description
In MedMyst: Animal Alert!, players learn about a mysterious disease that is affecting people in a distant tropical region. Players can choose to work as an epidemiologist, microbiologist, or veterinarian to determine what is making people sick. Animal Alert! can be played after Disease Defenders or independently of that mission. While role-playing as an expert, players will learn how epidemiologists, microbiologists, and veterinarians work as a team to solve infectious disease outbreaks. Each expert path has its own learning objectives.
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Instructional and educational works
Game
Simulation
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Simulation
Keywords
Veterinary medicine, Epidemiology, Microbiology, Scientific method, Science process skills, Viruses, Quarantine, Disease transmission cycles, Microarray, Nucleic acid sequencing, Case-control study
Citation
Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning. "MedMyst: Animal Alert! Students learn how epidemiologists, microbiologists, and veterinarians work as a team to solve infectious disease outbreaks.." (2011) Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning and Rice University, Houston Texas: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/62547.
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