1. Take the tour - write a short summery on the "environmental change" on a google doc and make this a symbaloo button. This will be a longer assignment so don't loose it (make it a button!)
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/prologue/prologue.html
Answer these questions.
1. How does an environmental change effect the spread of viruses?
2. What environmental change helped the spread of the Hantavirus?
3. What could help us predict another outbreak of the Hantavirus?

2. Try Pandemic II again! - http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/fullscreen.php?game=Pandemic-2

3. Contribute to this discussion: You will have these questions. http://groups.google.com/group/pressure-to-survive

1. What pressures make the virus in the game Pandemic have to change to survive (and destroy).

2. How is the game similar to the axoltol's development in Lake Xochimilco? (Hint: what pressures were put on the axolotl (when it was a salamander) to change or die as a species?

3. How did neoteny (new word huh!) help the axolotls survival in Lake Xochimilco?

4. What pressures are on the axolotl today?

5. Optional game - survival game - http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html