Utah Education Network
Uen: Themepark: Cycles
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...
The College of Physicians
The History of Vaccines: How Vaccines Work
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Diagnosing Malaria
The three-step process of diagnosing malaria is explained.
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health: Your Digestive System and How It Works
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Brain: Teaching Modules
A collection of 32 video learning modules on everything to do with the brain.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree
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...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What's the Big Deal With Gluten?
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...
Other
Unicef Global Polio Eradication: End of Polio
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.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Homeostasis Introduction
Provides an easy to understand overview of the Biochemical processes, disease, and feedback mechanisms of homeostasis.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical Records and Health Information Tech
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.
Science Daily
Science Daily: Researchers Image Language Recovery After Stroke
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.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Pneumonia
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,...
NOAA
Noaa: Coral Reef Watch: Satellite Coral Bleaching Monitoring
This site provides a concise explanation of the bleaching process, its effect on corals, and the causes of bleaching.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Colorectal Cancer Screening
Information on colorectal cancer screening. The information is set up as a guide to help someone through the process of screening for colorectal cancer.
Other
What Is Immunization?
A general description of what vaccines are and how they work. Easy to understand.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Science: Web Quest
Site offers an internet WebQuest on phytochemicals and a healthy diet. Provides internet resources to aide the user in their quest for knowledge.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Botany: Respiration
The process of respiration in plants, humans, and animals is discussed, along with diseases that can affect respiration. (Published: November 16, 2011)
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Animal Cloning, Old Mac Donald's Farm Changed
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition: What Your Body Needs
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Frontiers Decade: Medical Decade
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.