NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED Our World In Data: Vaccinations

Overview: For this week's homework, you will look at world wide data on vaccinations  You will answer some questions, write a personal response, and come up with 1 discussion question. Note - you should complete the Writing Discussion Questions Quiz before beginning this assignment.

Goal: In the past, we  have focused on reading articles, but for this week, you will look at data and practice reading and interpreting graphs.  This also is an important college skills that can improve over time. The goal is to learn more about Covid world wide. 

1. Instructions:

Go to the section of Our World in Data: Vaccines Links to an external site. and scroll down until you find this title and graphic. Read the paragraph and answer the questions about the graphic 

2. Questions: for each of the following diseases, answer the questions below

• Measles, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough),  Acute Polio, smallpox, hepatitis
• When do you think the vaccine was introduced
• How many cases were there per million per year before the vaccine and after the vaccine?
• How many deaths were there per  million per year before the vaccine and after the vaccine? 

3. Personal Response to Both Articles : Write a 150-200 word personal response to this data. You may respond in any way you choose, but your response must be rooted in the content provided in data  itself. Vague disconnected comments like "this was really interesting" or "I learned a lot" will earn no points. Instead, make specific references to what was interesting or what you learned. Some suggestions for your personal response include:

• • • You might want to look over other graphics on this same page- is there any other data that is of interest to you?  What did the graphic show and what conclusions can you make based on that data? 
    • What are some lessons that we should learn from this data- as an individual, a country, the world? 
    •  What are questions that you have about vaccination- either personal or related to this data? 

4. Discussion Question: Write one question that could be used in our class discussion of this resource.  Submit with this assignment and bring this to class - we will use it for our discussion and you will turn it in with your name on it!