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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Polio Epidemiology

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the polio as an epidemic prior to 1900 and how the infectious disease has slowly diminished but for three countries (Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan).
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Media Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th
Activities in this comprehensive interactive tutorial will involve determining the strengths and limitations of epidemiological reports. You will also evaluate media messages and develop your own.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Nova: Disease Detective

For Students 3rd - 8th
As the local epidemiologist, it is your job to investigate a mysterious disease outbreak. Several people in a camping area have become sick with an unknown serious illness. Trace the outbreak to its source using the basic methods of...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Science Ambassador Fellowship: Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site gives many lesson plans for teaching middle and high school students about current and relevant science topics like autism, ADHD, Diabetes, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, birth defects, genetics, and more. The lessons are based on...
Interactive
PBS

Nova: Disease Detective

For Students 9th - 10th
How would you do as an epidmeiologist? Find out in this interactive simulation. Your mission will be to interview people and trace the transmission of a mysterious disease.
Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Asthma a Speaker's Kit

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, you can find material useful for presentations and reports concerning the chronic disease asthma. This website contains links to slides of information about asthma, and provides short paragraphs of information with each slide....
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute Online: Dceg

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Cancer Institute gives information on studying cancer epidemiology. Look under "Research programs" to find out information on specific areas of epidemiology.
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University of California

University of California: Department of Epidemiology

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a lot of information on courses offered at the University of California's School of Medicine. There is also a list of research articles on the subject to help you find out more about it.
Handout
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center

Fas: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about a 1996 study on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Learn about how FAS is caused and detected, and how this disease can affect one's physical and cognitive development. Included, are recommendations for preventing FAS through...
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Other

Job Stress Network

For Students 9th - 10th
The Center for Social Epidemiology offers study results, upcoming conference information, and other resources related to stress and methods of coping with it, especially in the work place.
Article
Other

Oxford Journals: Population Ageing in the United States of America: Implications

For Students 9th - 10th
Scholarly article in the International Journal of Epidemiology, published in August 2002. It examines the implications for government policy that aging will have in health care, elder care, and income supports.
Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Microbes in Court: Emerging Field of Microbial Forensics

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how microbes can actually help solve crimes. Uncover some of the problems with using microbes as forensic evidence.
eBook
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Eric Notebook: Cross Sectional Studies [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains what a cross-sectional study of a population is and how it compares with a cohort study. Its advantages, disadvantages, and limitations are discussed, and how it is used in studying health issues and risks. Includes two practice...
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Other

Ascaris of the Colon: Intestinal Parasite Ascaris Lumbricoides

For Students 9th - 10th
General information about the ascaris lumbricoides, including: etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, general gross description, general microscopic description, and clinical correlation.
Handout
World Health Organization

World Health Organization: Yellow Fever

For Students 9th - 10th
Site about Yellow Fever, vaccine, countries at risk in Africa, control, and epidemiology of yellow fever in 1994 and 1995. This site also has a great table of the number of cases and deaths reported to the World Health Organization...
Interactive
Rice University

Rice University: Med Myst: Medical Mysteries on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
Two problem-solving detective games, each with its own series of missions, involve players in microbiological investigations into the causes and spread of diseases. Concepts covered include disease pathology, Koch's principles, immune...
Interactive
Rice University

Rice University: Web Adventures: Medmyst: Reloaded: Animal Alert

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online adventure game, players learn about a mysterious disease that is affecting people in a distant tropical region. Players can choose to role-play as an epidemiologist, microbiologist, or veterinarian to solve infectious...
Interactive
Rice University

Rice University: Web Adventures: Med Myst: Peril in Prokaryon

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the second in a series of five missions in the MedMyst series adventure games. Students will conduct field and laboratory investigations to solve the problem they are given, while playing the role of detective, scientist, and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Epidemiologist

For Students 9th - 10th
Being an epidemiologist is like being a detective, at least a medical detective. Read about the many different ways the epidemiologist looks into medical conditions to see what causes them. Science Buddies' career profile lays out the...
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Infectious Diseases: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive timeline of important events in medical technology history. Click on an event to read more about a notable event or famous person who studied medicine. Includes a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
Activity
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Yellow Jackie: Outbreak

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Interactive mystery about a disease outbreak. Students investigate an outbreak of a disease on board a ship by interviewing people, consulting medical reference, and observer other clues to determining what disease is causing the outbreak.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Passing the Bug

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students apply concepts of disease transmission to analyze infection data, either provided or created using Bluetooth-enabled Android devices. This data collection may include several cases, such as small static groups (representing...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simulating the Bug

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students modify a provided App Inventor code to design their own diseases. This serves as the evolution step in the software/systems design process. The activity is essentially a mini design cycle in which students are challenged to...
Interactive
Rice University

Rice University: Web Adventures: Med Myst: Reloaded: Disease Defenders

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online adventure game, become part of a team of experts investigating an infectious disease outbreak. Learn about the science of infectious disease and the medical careers of real scientists such as an epidemiologist,...

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