Malaria Challenge
Peace Corps Challenge Game
Print this Page- Subject(s): Language Arts & Literature, Environment & Health, Cross-Cultural Understanding
- Grade Level(s): 6–8, 9–12
Overview
Enhance the experiences from the barren fields challenge of the Peace Corps Challenge game with additional resources from World Wise Schools.
Background Information
Factoids from the Game:
- Between 350 million and 500 million people contract malaria each year, and more than a million people a year die of the disease. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- More than two-fifths of the people in the world live in areas where malaria is transmitted, including Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and islands in the Pacific. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Occurrences of malaria can be reduced by managing water resources, for example, by preventing standing water from accumulating in communities. Source: World Health Organization
Procedures
Play the malaria challenge.
Additional Resources- World Health Organization: Malaria
- President's Malaria Initiative
- UNICEF: Malaria
Framework and Standards
Standards
National Content Standards:
- English Language Arts Standards
- Standard 1
- National Science Education Standards
- Content Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives