Ebola

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The 2011 thriller, __Contagion,__ centers around a deadly virus spread by a combined bat/swine flu. The movie itself deals with a lot of complex biology/genetics material which may be hard for students to understand without prior knowledge.

Pre-Movie Activity: http://www.teachengineering.org/view_activity.php?url=http://www.teachengineering.org/collection/duk_/activities/duk_virus_mary_act/duk_virus_mary_act.xml

Post-Movie Activity: A worksheet with questions to not test the knowledge of the movie, but the knowledge of the science within. Different questions about the way a virus can spread, in what ways it is transmitted from person to person, how fast or slow a virus can spread, etc.