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Black Death Activities

Melissa Nowotarski

Looking for a great little activity for the Black Death? Try the Contagion Activity 

I took a set of role cards from a different version of this game that I had used so the number of peasants is much higher.  You can access those cards here: https://brownsburgk12in-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/mnowotarski_brownsburg_k12_in_us/EYKESBN1AH9Nuz7SoyfRm1EBOd9wW9gUxH4EbaqgkAZYqw?e=Jr85iC

The only other modification I made was that peasants got 3 playing cards, merchants got 5, and nobles got 10.  Then, we could talk about how wealth is easier to get when you start with wealth. 

The students loved it when I called out Patient Zero! Its a great little activity that doesn't take too much time, but its a good payout on student engagement.

What other activities do you love to use with the Black Death? 

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  • I've been a long-time user of various forms of simulations demonstrating the spread of the plague - these are always memorable for students!

    While the prior version of the Contagion! activity did a great job of demonstrating how disease spread through trade, it did sometimes lead to students avoiding the plague (joker cards) with nefarious tactics. I like how the new revision (called What Are You Trading?) maintains the element of surprise to show that the spread of disease was unintentional. Has anyone tried the newly revised version? If so, what did you think?

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  • I've been a long-time user of various forms of simulations demonstrating the spread of the plague - these are always memorable for students!

    While the prior version of the Contagion! activity did a great job of demonstrating how disease spread through trade, it did sometimes lead to students avoiding the plague (joker cards) with nefarious tactics. I like how the new revision (called What Are You Trading?) maintains the element of surprise to show that the spread of disease was unintentional. Has anyone tried the newly revised version? If so, what did you think?

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