Part III – Is Everyone Sick? Principal Pinder next called Mrs. Garner, one of th
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Part III – Is Everyone Sick? Principal Pinder next called Mrs. Garner, one of the other fifth grade teachers. She was in her classroom getting ready to start teaching her class for the day Principal: Hello Mrs. Garner, this is Principal Pinder. Are any of your kids sick today? Mrs. Garner: Hello Principal Pinder. No, no one is sick. All 20 of my students are present and as lively as ever. They are still talking about how much fun they had during last week’s field trip. Principal: Oh good, I was wondering because Ms. Hines and ten of her students are very ill. I’m curious, did her class do anything different? Mrs. Garner: Well, both Ms. Hines’ class and my class watched several science presentations at the Science Center. After the demonstrations, my class voted to go to the petting zoo and Ms. Hines’ class wanted to go to the park beside the Science Center. We all met back at the picnic area in time for lunch. Other than that, we all were together for the rest of the day.
Questions:
1. Why is there concern about other kids getting sick?
2. Why do you think Mrs. Garner’s students did not become ill while Ms. Hines’ kids did?
3. Mrs. Garner’s class visited the petting zoo, could they also have become sick from microorganisms?
4. Based on the circumstances, do you think the Principal should isolate the students that went on the trip from other students at school until further information is gathered?
Explanation / Answer
1. Everyone went for the same trip, but one batch is totally sick including staff Ms.Hines. That's why principal is concern about other kids.
2. Because Mrs. Garner’s students went for petting Zoo to play with goats, sheep, pigs, and ponies. But Ms.Hine's
kids went to park beside the Science Center where they might be some infecting microorganism present in
that environment.
3. No, because all are children if they become infect with microorganism they also get infection mean while.
So, they are not infected.
4. Yes, only Ms. Hines kids has to isolate from the other students because every one is infected in that batch.