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Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Cycles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a large collection of resources on cycles of nature and the Earth. There is a constant exchange of the elements between air, earth, water, plants, and animals. Most biological processes wind up back where they started. These...
Interactive
The College of Physicians

The History of Vaccines: How Vaccines Work

For Students 9th - 10th
Animations showing how the different parts of the immune system respond to vaccination and how that response protects the body from a specific disease in the future. After viewing the animations, students do an activity to test their...
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Diagnosing Malaria

For Students 9th - 10th
The three-step process of diagnosing malaria is explained.
Handout
National Institutes of Health

National Institutes of Health: Your Digestive System and How It Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the digestive system, why digestion is important, how food is digested, and how the process is controlled. Includes a diagram of the body parts involved.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Brain: Teaching Modules

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 32 video learning modules on everything to do with the brain.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
This annotated slideshow adapted from KET's Electronic Field Trip to the Forest illustrates how blight decimated the American chestnut tree and the methods scientists use to identify and pollinate the remaining trees to create...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What's the Big Deal With Gluten?

For Students 9th - 10th
If you've been to a restaurant in the last few years, you've likely seen the words gluten-free written somewhere on the menu. But what exactly is gluten, and why can't some people process it? And why does it only seem to be a problem...
Website
Other

Unicef Global Polio Eradication: End of Polio

For Students 9th - 10th
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative site gives pictures, details, history, and an invitation to help in the process of completing the world-wide eradication of this crippling viral disease. Includes links to related resources.
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Homeostasis Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an easy to understand overview of the Biochemical processes, disease, and feedback mechanisms of homeostasis.
Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical Records and Health Information Tech

For Students 9th - 10th
Career trends and employment projections are detailed in this Department of Labor site. General information on the Medical Records and Health Information Technician profession is also provided.
Article
Science Daily

Science Daily: Researchers Image Language Recovery After Stroke

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from ScienceDaily illustrates a recent medical study where researchers at Washington University have identified and imaged language areas of the brain in recovery after stroke.
Handout
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Pneumonia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MayoClinic.com provides a great overview of pneumonia. Brief and factual, the entry includes a picture that shows the process of pneumonia. Includes links to an overview, signs and symptoms, causes, treatment, prevention,...
Activity
NOAA

Noaa: Coral Reef Watch: Satellite Coral Bleaching Monitoring

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a concise explanation of the bleaching process, its effect on corals, and the causes of bleaching.
Website
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Colorectal Cancer Screening

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on colorectal cancer screening. The information is set up as a guide to help someone through the process of screening for colorectal cancer.
Handout
Other

What Is Immunization?

For Students 9th - 10th
A general description of what vaccines are and how they work. Easy to understand.
Activity
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Science: Web Quest

For Students 9th - 10th
Site offers an internet WebQuest on phytochemicals and a healthy diet. Provides internet resources to aide the user in their quest for knowledge.
Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Botany: Respiration

For Students 9th - 10th
The process of respiration in plants, humans, and animals is discussed, along with diseases that can affect respiration. (Published: November 16, 2011)
Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Animal Cloning, Old Mac Donald's Farm Changed

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look into the potential benefits to animal cloning. This process could provide us with food designed to help fight disease, protect endangered species, enhance livestock, and create opportunity for biomedical research.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition: What Your Body Needs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students explore why some foods are healthy and others unhealthy, they outline the process our body uses to break down foods into forms it can use, and they explain the role nutrition can play in managing diseases, including diabetes.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Frontiers Decade: Medical Decade

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the challenges of communicating without speaking or moving by creating a communications board from plastic alphabet letters. Explore speech synthesis files for people with communication disabilities.