Read the Fine Print
Educational Use
Using a website simulation tool, students build on their understanding of random processes on networks to interact with the graph of a social network of individuals and simulate the spread of a disease. They decide which two individuals on the network are the best to vaccinate in an attempt to minimize the number of people infected and "curb the epidemic." Since the results are random, they run multiple simulations and compute the average number of infected individuals before analyzing the results and assessing the effectiveness of their vaccination strategies.
- Subject:
- Career and Technical Education
- Health Science
- Technology and Engineering
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering NGSS Aligned Resources
- Author:
- Complex Systems Science Laboratory,
- Debbie Jenkinson and Susan Frennesson, The Pine School, Stuart, FL
- Garrett Jenkinson and John Goutsias, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014
