The following is an excerpt from The New Celebrity Scientists, by Declan Fahy. Listen to SciFri on Friday, May 1, to hear Fahy talk more about famous scientists and their work. Beginning in 1970, the amount of science reported in the media exploded. In the United States, the 1970s and 1980s saw the creation of […]
Target Grades: 7-12 Time Required: 30-60 minutes Subject Areas: Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Activity Type: Data Analysis and Visualization Standards: NGSS HS-LS2-2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.7, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.9-10.3 Mapping is a powerful tool for understanding the spread of diseases that are transmitted by invertebrates such as mosquitoes and ticks, called vectors. Epidemiologists, the scientists who study disease transmission and distribution, will often […]