COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others?

COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? will help you, and your community, understand the science of the virus that causes COVID-19 and other viruses like it. It will help you to figure out how this virus is impacting or affecting you or may impact you in the future. It will help you to understand the actions that you can take to keep yourself and your community safe.

In this project, you will discuss how people feel about the virus. You will investigate the science of this virus. You will explore public health measures, which are things that are happening in your community or may happen soon to keep COVID-19 from spreading. You will take action to support health in your community.

Are you teaching in a Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) classroom, school or district? Check out our new NGSS-Aligned Teacher Companion Guide for COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others?

Help us measure impact! By providing us with this basic information, you are ensuring that we can document the reach of the COVID-19 module and helping the Smithsonian Science Education Center to understand how to best support educators and parents as they undertake this module with their learners. Click here

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COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? is based on science and public health information available on May 5, 2020.