KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A team of teachers is collaborating with the University of Missouri to develop a high school curriculum about the new coronavirus pandemic to teach to students while schools are closed.
Pat Friedrichsen, a professor of science education at Missouri, was awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help create a coronavirus curriculum aimed at informing Missouri high schoolers the science of the pandemic and its effects on everyday life.
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Missouri schools will remain closed until the end of the academic year to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, KCUR reported.
“I think it’s really difficult for teenagers,” Friedrichsen said.
“They’re very social. They want to be with their friends. And so we wanted them to understand why this policy is going to help us flatten the curve.”
The team of teachers at the university uses online modeling tools to create and teach lessons about the virus.