Report on BASICS: Lesson Plan on Aerosols and Infection

Abstract

From online lectures to virtual lab assignments to Zoom breakout rooms, COVID-19 has changed the way students are learning around the world. The goal of the BASICS: Lesson Plan on Aerosols & Infection is to help students understand the biophysics underlying aerosols to explain why the SARS-CoV-2 virus has taken over our lives. The Lesson Plan explains how aerosols travel through air and demonstrates how masks can effectively prevent aerosol transmission and, by extension, viral infection. In this Report, we discuss how we developed this Lesson Plan and what students can learn about infectious virus spread in relation to aerosols.