Students know about various aspects of health through personal experiences or through experiences of others. There are also awareness campaigns and health programs are at the school level which contribute to students’ information about health. The module encourages students to reflect on their existing knowledge and ask questions about things that they would like to know about. This module is designed for students to explore the concept of health and a few diseases through short independent projects which will include surveys within their community and some hands-on experiments.

The module consists of:

• Student driven project work
• Case study
• Hands-on experiments by collecting samples from their surroundings
• Thought experiments
• Digital interactives

Through this process, students will have the opportunity to make observations, investigate hypotheses and present to the class.

We have three units in the module
1. Concept of health
2. History of malaria through scientific lens
3. Project work
4. What does data tell us?

In first unit, we will talk about students’ perception of social, physical and mental well-being.
There will be a survey conducted by students within their community to get better understanding of the overlap of the three aspects of health.  
 
In next unit, we will talk about the discovery of Malaria. It will be in form of scientific story with thought experiments and hands- on experiments  in between the narrative. This can be considered as a template for investigations to be carried out for the students in the last unit.
 
In the third unit, the students will work on one of the four investigatory projects suggested in the module. At the end of this unit the students will have to present their project work to their entire class. The project work will be done in group.

Our last unit of this module talks about the importance of data in public health. It is essential to look at the disease data and try to see patterns in order to predict and prevent hazardous outcomes. Students will try to observe why do we need to take large population sample to conclude anything about the data with confidence.

We imagine role of the teachers to be that of a facilitator in the process of scientific investigations that the students will do. Encouraging students to ask questions, helping them formulate strategies to answer questions, facilitate discussions and guiding students to present their work in the class would be key responsibilities of the teacher.  
The expected outcome of the module is that it will help students to think about health, causation, cure and prevention of disease as a scientific process and not mere things that happen to someone. the module  also encourages students to apply the process of scientific inquiry in real world problems related to health and well being. Although the module discusses only a few diseases the expected outcome would be for students to apply the same process to think about other prevalent diseases and newly emerging diseases.