Curated OER
Beginning Critical Reading - The Flu
In these critical reading worksheets, students read the story about the flu. Students answer 3 questions about the story and their explanations.
Curated OER
Understanding the Steps in a Process
Students read, "Center for Drug Evaluation and Research: FAQs", and discuss with questions embedded in the lesson.
Curated OER
Cancer Treatments
Students explore various types of cancer treatments. In this cancer treatment lesson, students discuss the types of cancer and the treatments which are being offered.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Health Topic: Women's Health
From assisted reproductive technology to women's safety and health issues at work, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers many women's health issues.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Disease Detective
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...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Travelers' Health: Disease Directory
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on over 40 diseases that travelers might need to be prepared for. Information includes description of disease, risk for travelers, preventive measures and treatment.
Other
Nothing but Nets: Campaign to Save Lives by Preventing Malaria
Learn about malaria from a charitable organization that fights the spread of the disease through donations of anti-malaria bed netting.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Hand Washing Experiment
By conducting two experiments, this instructional activity will help students discover the importance of thoroughly washing hands and the role that plays as a way to prevent the spread of disease.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Science Ambassador Fellowship: Lesson Plans
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...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The most recent information on STD's is given to you by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: H1 N1 Flu (Swine Flu)
The official website about Swine Flu from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Find out general information, an update on the current situation as of the day you are looking at the site, recommendations for vaccine, and what...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Compendium of Rabies Prevention & Control
This site from the Centers for Disease Control provides information about the rabies vaccine and immune globulin. It gives some background information on rabies, but mainly focuses on the vaccine, what it is comprised of, who should...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Preventing the Flu
This resource provides key facts about flu prevention methods, including the flu shot. Includes PDFs (require Adobe Reader).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Healthy Pets Healthy People: Salmonella Infection
Learn what Salmonella is and how it can be transmitted to people from pets, poultry, rodents, and farm animals. Covers prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and provides numerous resources for further research.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Spread the Soap, Not the Germs
Washing your hands is the best way to prevent the spread of germs. But germs can be tricky; they find nooks and crannies to hide in, so it takes good hand-washing technique to get rid of them. This science project investigates which...
University of Missouri
Microbes in Action: Classroom Activities: Transfer of Diseases
A science experiment to observe how microbes are transferred by hand contact. This lab creates a model to show students how microbes transfer disease. One student will rub their hand with candy soaked in a yeast solution, then students...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (St Ds)
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) provides a collection of links to a variety of sexually transmitted diseases. Content focuses on bacterial infections (such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and chancroid), STD prevention, and...
American Academy of Family Physicians
Aafp: Practical Tips for Preventing a Sickle Cell Crisis
This article from the American Family Physician journal provides basic information about what sickle cell anemia is and some measures that can be used to control the pain.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities reminds everyone that, "FAS is 100% preventable if a woman does not drink alcohol while she is pregnant." The condition is described, new reports and findings are...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities reminds everyone that, "FAS is 100% preventable if a woman does not drink alcohol while she is pregnant." The condition is described, new reports and findings are...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Tracking a Mystery: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site offers a detailed account of the 1993 outbreak in the western US that lead to discovery of a new disease linked to "a previously unknown type of hantavirus." Many related pages with...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Pertussis [Pdf]
This PDF document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contains detailed information about pertussis from several different angles. Information is provided on the clinical features, the complications, the incidence and the...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Vaccines and Immnunizations
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention site that covers just about anything you'd want to know about vaccines and immunizations, including vaccine recommendations, immunization schedules, vaccine safety, the importance of vaccines...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Rotavirus
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have provided an extremely informative site regarding the rotavirus. The site includes information pertaining to general characteristics of the rotavirus as well as: diagnosis, treatment,...