These three disease spread and public health data graphing activities will help your students understand how infectious diseases spread and how prevention strategies impact public health while building strong graphing and data analysis skills. This bundle gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to have students work with real-world health data to explore Bacterial Infection & Antibiotic Resistance Trends, Viral Transmission & Vaccination Impact, and Global Pandemic Spread & Population Risk.

There are 3 Graphing Labs Included:

1. Bacterial Infection & Antibiotic Resistance Trends Investigation
2. Viral Transmission & Vaccination Impact Investigation
3. Global Pandemic Spread & Population Risk Investigation

Students analyze real-world style datasets related to bacterial infection rates, antibiotic prescription trends, antibiotic resistance levels, vaccination coverage, viral infection rates, global pandemic cases, population growth, and population density risk factors. They then create a variety of graph types from data tables before using their graphs to identify patterns, analyze trends, and explain how diseases spread and how prevention strategies reduce infections.

Each activity includes a complete answer key with the required graphs if you need to differentiate for different ability levels.

How It Works

Students use provided real-world data tables to:

• Create multiple types of graphs (line graphs, bar graphs, and scatter plots)
• Identify long-term trends in infection rates and disease spread
• Compare relationships between variables such as vaccination coverage and infection rates
• Analyze how antibiotic use relates to antibiotic resistance
• Explore how population size and density influence pandemic spread
• Use evidence from graphs to answer discussion questions about disease transmission and public health

Each activity moves students from reading data → graphing data → interpreting patterns → explaining disease spread and prevention strategies.

Perfect for:

• Infectious disease units
• Public health and epidemiology lessons
• Data analysis practice
• Graphing skill development
• Small group collaboration
• Sub plans or review days
• Cross-curricular math connections

This graphing bundle is also included inside my Middle School Science Graphing & Data Analysis Mega Bundle at a significant discount. The bundle contains graphing activities for all 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science topics.

What’s Included

✅ Three disease spread graphing investigations
✅ Real-world data tables for each activity
✅ Multiple graphing tasks in every investigation
✅ Data analysis discussion questions
✅ Complete answer keys
✅ Extension activities
✅ Rubrics for each investigation

Topics Students Explore

• Bacterial infection rates
• Antibiotic prescription trends
• Antibiotic resistance patterns
• Viral transmission trends
• Vaccination coverage and herd immunity
• Population density and disease spread
• Global pandemic case trends
• Public health risk factors
• Disease prevention strategies
• Community vaccination planning
• Population growth and global health risks
• Pandemic preparedness and response

Teacher-Friendly Features

• Uses real-world disease and public health datasets
• Promotes critical thinking and evidence-based reasoning
• Builds graphing and data literacy skills
• Supports NGSS Science & Engineering Practices
• Easy to implement with no prep
• Flexible for Grades 6–8 classrooms