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.