4+December,+2013+-+Brainwave+and+Resilience+IMYC

**4 December, 2013 - Brainwave and Resilience**
__**Period 8 - Brainwave Task 1**__ As a whole class, look at the weekly timetable of lessons and the layout of the school days. Referring to the different subjects and break/lunch times, think about how and when they think they learn best. Record the differences they come up with such as: • Reading, listening, watching or doing

• The time of day

• Favourite subjects, etc.

• Whether they are feeling relaxed or stressed • Whether they have had a good night’s sleep • What they have eaten, when they have eaten Talk about the differences without valuing one over another. Talk, too, about your own preferences. Then work with them to devise a simple questionnaire they can use with their parents to find out how they prefer to learn. Include enough different categories to reveal differences. The categories may be the same as those you discussed with your children. Ask children to take the questionnaire home and discuss it with a parent or another adult.

__**Period 9 - IMYC - History - Resilience**__ The purpose of this task is for you to develop an appreciation of: • The scale of the problem created by smallpox • The length of time that people had been battling with the disease, on a global scale

These considerations will help you to put the Big Idea into context in the tasks that follow. They will see why persistence and dedication was necessary to combat the disease, and why successfully eradicating it must have once seemed an impossible task.

**What is smallpox? Where and when did people die from this disease?** Image of a smallpox patient.

Highlight the location and date of smallpox epidemics until the end of the 17th century. (Copy the article into word processing program and use the highlight tool. One group of students will use the first three paragraphs of the following article, entitled ‘Smallpox: Eradicating the Scourge’:  BBC Smallpox Article  A BBC History article on the eradication of smallpox.

One group will use the first section, ’12,000 Years of Terror’, of the following article about the history of smallpox: Health and Science Article A health and science article on smallpox.

One group will use the first seven paragraphs of the following article, ‘Smallpox’: World Health Organization article A WHO article on smallpox.

One group will use the timeline of the history of smallpox (up to 1623) on pages 4 and 5 of the following PDF: Smallpox timeline The History of Smallpox and its Spread Around the World (PDF document).