Rather than learning about “How Science Works”, your students can actually be part of science. The work that your students do as part of this project will be of real benefit to researchers looking to reduce the impact that flu has on our communities. At the end of the project, the work your students have done will be credited in an article in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
Hopefully in the end, the work your students do will have a benefit to their own lives and the lives of their families by improving the way we can monitor and control flu outbreaks.