{"id":4159,"date":"2025-09-25T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/?page_id=4159"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:47:46","slug":"covid-19-information-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/covid-19-information-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Information &amp; Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">In times of upheaval, it&#8217;s important to understand as best we can what is happening. Our Center wants to support you and your students by offering resources that focus on real data, in real time to help make some sense of what&#8217;s happening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-default\"><strong>Ready-to-Use Vaccine&nbsp;Lesson Materials (updated Feb 2022)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">We&#8217;ve developed four lessons on vaccines for ASE-level students. Each vaccine lesson includes a lesson plan, PowerPoint slides, and a student packet. Materials are available in several languages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/teaching-about-vaccines-lesson-materials\/\"><strong>Go to the Vaccine Lesson Materials page<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The New York Times has also posted a free lesson called&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/13\/learning\/what-does-95-effective-mean-teaching-the-math-of-vaccine-efficacy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Does 95% Effective Mean: Teaching the Math of Vaccine Efficacy<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;that may be of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-default\"><strong>Ready-to-Use Pandemic Lesson Materials<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">We&#8217;ve developed two sets of math materials on pandemics, one for ABE-level students and the other for ASE-level students. The links below will take you to Dropbox folders where you can download the lessons, teacher materials, and other supporting files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/r39s7mdyi3b1lf6\/AAAxb93LlUs6SvDOy4usXpCMa?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABE-Level Pandemic Lesson<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/kxxwr80tla8mz28\/AADfoNWVVMl41lV5qAPigz38a?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ASE-Level Pandemic Lesson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-default\"><strong>PD for Pandemic and Vaccine Lesson Materials<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">For support using the lessons above, we offer two online workshops:&nbsp;<em>How Pandemics Spread: Teaching the Math at Different Levels<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Teaching about Vaccines<\/em>. In both workshops, attendees will sample some of the math activities from the materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-default\"><strong>Other Resources<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Here are some other resources about pandemics and data sources that were monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. The data on these sites was last updated in March of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">This simulator from the Washington Post simulates how a pandemic works, a great opportunity to get the sense for what exponential growth feels like:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fgraphics%2F2020%2Fworld%2Fcorona-simulator%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Csherry_soares%40terc.edu%7C33b464b6ff3a4d0c116c08d7e888843a%7C322d5924eb17485dad2e5078894cc39a%7C0%7C0%7C637233545346552467&amp;sdata=1nSXLxQtXFSv3HlsnqojAwSp%2BLJfqV9%2BKdqoHjRA7Ts%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/world\/corona-simulator\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">Want daily updates on what&#8217;s happening in MA? Try this site:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wbur.org%2Fcommonhealth%2F2020%2F03%2F09%2Fcoronavirus-cases-massachusetts-map&amp;data=02%7C01%7Csherry_soares%40terc.edu%7C33b464b6ff3a4d0c116c08d7e888843a%7C322d5924eb17485dad2e5078894cc39a%7C0%7C0%7C637233545346562468&amp;sdata=0uvVdtePd9IAw6rH2P2J5FL1Bm8vsUJ2xgTQ8R3zVLI%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/commonhealth\/2020\/03\/09\/coronavirus-cases-massachusetts-map<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">If you want to explore how the U.S. is faring compared to other countries, or how each state compares to one another, check out this daily updated set of graphs:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.91-divoc.com%2Fpages%2Fcovid-visualization%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Csherry_soares%40terc.edu%7C33b464b6ff3a4d0c116c08d7e888843a%7C322d5924eb17485dad2e5078894cc39a%7C0%7C0%7C637233545346562468&amp;sdata=%2BonFkmK%2FnNg5CGY%2FHO00U35N35HSZSq4P9Dhfcm7nUc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.91-divoc.com\/pages\/covid-visualization\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">The New York Times also provides daily updates to keep you informed:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2020%2Fus%2Fcoronavirus-us-cases.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7Csherry_soares%40terc.edu%7C33b464b6ff3a4d0c116c08d7e888843a%7C322d5924eb17485dad2e5078894cc39a%7C0%7C0%7C637233545346572459&amp;sdata=FITWcovFnya8LGQQEznjc3QXzisjjepJzyd6weKUi34%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/coronavirus-us-cases.html<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">Center for Disease Control COVID Data Tracker home page:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/covid\/php\/surveillance\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/cases-updates\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In times of upheaval, it&#8217;s important to understand as best we can what is happening. Our Center wants to support you and your students by offering resources that focus on real data, in real time to help make some sense of what&#8217;s happening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ready-to-Use Vaccine&nbsp;Lesson Materials (updated Feb 2022)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve developed four lessons on vaccines for ASE-level students. Each vaccine lesson includes a lesson plan, PowerPoint slides, and a student packet. Materials are available in several languages.&nbsp;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/covid-19-information-resources\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"720,1582,1656,2359,2371,2934","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4282,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4159\/revisions\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}