This session explores how Micro: bit technology can be used alongside case studies and practical classroom activities to help students investigate how diseases spread.
Developed during the COVID pandemic through collaborative teacher learning, the approach was designed to model both airborne and more traditional contact-based transmission. Participants will see how these activities can support engagement with current, real-world science through problem solving, discussion, and enquiry.
The session will share the background to the work, outline how the activities were developed for classroom use, and demonstrate how Micro: bits and disease-transmission scenarios can be used to promote STEM learning and scientific sensemaking. Resources will be shared digitally with attendees.
1. Use case studies and Micro: bit technology to engage students in investigating disease transmission through relevant, real-world contexts. 2. Plan opportunities for students to apply science inquiry and problem-solving approaches as they analyse evidence and identify possible sources of infection. 3. Adapt an integrative STEM activity that supports exploration, sensemaking, and discussion of disease transmission in the classroom.
