This 4-week unit focuses on ideas, concepts, and practices related to the study of infectious disease. Unit activities draw heavily on games (web-based and board games) that model different infectious disease concepts. For the unit project, students select an infectious disease-related idea, concept, and/or practice, and design a game to model it. For this project, they follow the real-world steps of a professional game designer. As part of extension activities, students watch videos of scientis