Lesson Plan: Learning from a Double Disease
Strand Five: The Biological World
Main Learning Outcome 6: Evaluate how human health is affected by: inherited factors and environmental factors including nutrition; lifestyle choices; examine the role of micro-organisms in human health.
Overview
In this lesson, available in聽both Irish and English, learners investigate the science behind the world鈥檚 oldest recorded disease: leprosy. They discover how a team of Irish scientists helped to develop a cure and problem-solve using a modern case study from Nepal.
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