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This brief chapter is about a statewide project to create educational materials that now have two complementary goals: to help teachers deliver classes that meet new Michigan social studies standards, and to help students learn about COVID-19. The first part of the project was underway before the pandemic began, but (like most educational-development activity) it was complicated by COVID-related lockdown rules, remote-learning efforts, and budget problems. This chapter has examples and brief descriptions of five separate but related efforts: a preliminary “stop-gap” lesson about COVID-19, a program to review online materials about the disease, some COVID-19 insertions into curriculum units that are currently being developed and tested, a lesson that uses an existing graphic organizer to put COVID-19 into context with other historic pandemics, and a framework for a COVID-knowledge discussion platform.
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Gersmehl, P.J., Gersmehl, C.A. (2022). Education as “Mental Vaccine:” Designing Educational Materials About COVID-19. In: Brunn, S.D., Gilbreath, D. (eds) COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9_110
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