Emergency & Community Health Outreach
Breast Cancer: Prevent, Detect, Treat
Odds are, most of the members of your class know someone who has been affected by breast cancer. Teach them more about prevention through healthy lifestyles, detection with self-testing and mammograms, and the most effective treatments...
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Skin Cancer Lesson Plan
Skin care is a topic often overlooked in the health curriculum. This should not be the case because most types of skin cancer can be prevented, or if detected early enough, can be successfully treated. So take the time to teach your...
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Skin Cancer Prevention
Young scholars discuss skin cancer prevention. For this skin cancer lesson, students read a pamphlet that tells the causes of skin cancer and what you can do to prevent it. Young scholars will choose from a variety of projects which...
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Skin Cancer Prevention
In this health worksheet, students find the words related to the concept of skin cancer and the answers are found by clicking the button found at the bottom of the page.
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Cancer
Students study cancer and possible preventative measures. In this cancer lesson students study the claims on food labels and ways to lower your risk of cancer.
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Cancer Research
Learners participate in a class demonstration to see how many Americans are affected by cancer in their lifetime. For this public health lesson, students are placed in situations that allow them to experience how relevant cancer...
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Cancer and the Cell Cycle - Biology Teaching Thesis
Identify the different stages of mitosis and what occurs in each stage with a straightforward biology lesson. Young scientists identify the importance of the cell cycle control in maintaining homeostasis, and then match the correct stage...
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Breaking News English: Cancer
In this cancer worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Cancer Causes
Students explore why people get cancer. They explore human cells by taking a close examine their own. take a small sample of the epithelial cells that line the inside of their mouth. They glimpse how scientists investigate inside cells.
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Understanding Cancer
Students study facts about cancer. In this cancer lesson, students read about cancer, cancer cells, cancer treatment, and research. They answer true or false questions on a worksheet before reading about cancer prevention.
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Protect the Skin You're in
Students explore the importance of sun safety in relationship to skin cancer prevention. They test the effectiveness of various sunscreens and administer and analyze a simple survey to their peers. In addition, they implement a public...
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Harvest the Facts
Students discover heath problems caused by tobacco. In this human health lesson, students identify the many diseases tobacco use causes and how to prevent such diseases. Students investigate the organs in the human body directly...
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World Cancer Day
In this World Cancer Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
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Breaking News English: Vegetarianism and Cancer
In this vegetarianism and cancer worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Cancer Treatments
Students explore the different kinds of treatments available for cancer and what their dangers or side effects are. They discover how often patients get treated, and how expensive the treatments are.
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Skin Cancer Prevention
Students explore ways to prevent skin cancer. Using activities, students explore suggestions on protecting skin. Students report their findings to the class. They discuss events in their personal lives and changes they should make to...
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Advocacy, Recognition, Prevention Through Art and Health
Students analyze how the environment and family history impacts personal health. In this personal health lesson, students discuss cancer and survey the school community about the disease. Students create a bulletin board about cancer and...
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UV: Use Caution
Students investigate the concept of skin cancer and its relation to using tanning beds that expose people to artificial ultraviolet rays. They research the effects and look for ways to prevent the onset of skin cancer from the...
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Nature's Superheroes
Learners compare their prior knowledge about the relationship between sunlight and cancer with new findings. They research how different vitamins and minerals affect the human body.
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Nanotechnology Grant Proposal Writing
Please, sir, can I have a few thousand dollars for my research? The last installment in a six-part lesson has the pupils develop a grant proposal. Class members apply their knowledge of skin cancer, ultraviolet radiation, human skin, and...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Different Genes Are Active in Different Kinds of Cells
Personalized medicine prevents many trial-and-error scenarios when time counts the most. Learn how gene expression and screening genomes improves health outcomes in cancer patients, those with auto-immune disorders, and more. An online...
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Drugs + Your Body—It Isn’t Pretty
Drugs can affect all parts of the body including teeth, skin, heart, brain, and lungs. Use an interactive that explores topics like addiction and the brain, steroid use and skin breakouts, methamphetamine use and rotting teeth, smoking...
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Smoking
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are related to the prevention of smoking and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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The Government Connection to Healthy Citizens
Young scholars describe the objectives of the Department of Health and Human Services. They list the agencies within the Department that deal with health issues in America. Students explain the role of government in skin cancer prevention.