Teacher Guide
Kid EPI is a set of mini-game lessons about epidemiology and public health. Children solve health mysteries with stories, clues, maps, and simple data.
FORMAT10 short lessons with mini-games, badges, and progress saved in the browser.
TIMEUse one lesson in 10-20 minutes or the full sequence across several class periods.
SETUPNo login or backend needed. Open the lesson map in a modern browser.
Learning Goals
- Explain epidemiology as the study of health patterns in groups of people.
- Use basic public health vocabulary such as outbreak, population, case, control, prevalence, and trial.
- Read simple maps, curves, counts, and comparison tables.
- Ask good questions before choosing what to do next.
Lesson Sequence
- What Is Epidemiology?
- The Epidemiologic Triangle
- Describe It First
- Spot the Pattern
- Asking Questions
- Cases vs Controls
- Follow the Group
- Snapshot Studies
- Testing a Treatment
- Stop the Spread
Discussion Prompts
- What clues would you collect before deciding what caused an outbreak?
- How can a map or graph change the story that numbers tell?
- Why do public health workers compare groups instead of guessing from one case?
- What makes a prevention plan fair, practical, and respectful?
Classroom Use
For whole-class teaching, project the lesson map and let students vote before a volunteer clicks. For independent work, ask students to finish one lesson and write one sentence about the public health tool they used. For an extension, students can invent a pretend outbreak and list the person, place, time, and exposure clues.
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