Cracking COVID (ATOM Study Guide)

Cracking Covid is a real-time journey through Australia's unique pandemic experience. As teams of scientists race to unlock the secrets of the virus, researchers work to build a vaccine from scratch, and three patients confront very different symptoms of a terrifying new disease.

Professor Peter Doherty – who won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries about the human immune system – joins Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Sonya Pemberton, providing warm and witty expert insight. We discover how, in uncertain times, we often have little choice but to improvise.

Cracking Covid is a surprisingly intimate story of Australia's race against the virus – as it happened, in the moment.

Curriculum Links:

This study guide on Cracking Covid is mainly aimed at middle to senior secondary school levels, with relevance within the class activities to the Australian Curriculum General Capabilities of: Critical and Creative Thinking; Ethical Understanding.

Cracking Covid can be linked to the following subject areas within the Australian Curriculum:

• English (Year 10)
• Media
• Science (Years 8–9)
• Biology (Year 12)
• Health and Physical Education (Years 9–10)