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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Death by Particles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Emerging epidemiologists define relative risk and read an article about the effect of particulate pollution on the cardiovascular health of women. They record the relative risk values, graph them, and answer analysis questions. This is a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Non-nutrients: Fiber and Water

For Teachers All
Students will identify the sources and function of carbohydrates and fiber and apply appropriate food preparation techniques.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Motion of a Virus Through a Population

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students test the factors that influence the rate at which a virus spreads through a population. They complete a lab activity then discuss data collected and review and answer a set of questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Immune System Alive

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine the function of the immune system. They read and discuss text, complete a K-W-L chart, sequence photos of white blood cells encountering bacteria, develop an outline, and write an essay.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Amazon Adventure: a Case Study in Medical Technology And Bioethics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students test problem-solving skills, the ability to see connections, and the ability to draw conclusions and inferences from information provided in a case study. Given a case study, they formulate a procedure and draw conclusions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Non-Nutrients: Fiber and Water

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discuss how much fiber and water a person needs each day. They use beans soaked in water to show the benefits of water to the human body. They also learn the health benefits to eating healthy.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Determination of the Physical Properties of Dietary Fibers

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this dietary fibers worksheet, students compare and contrast the properties of different fibers: cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, guar, agar, and xanthan gum. This worksheet has 5 short answer questions.
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Website
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Teacher's Corner: Infectious Disease Epidemiology

For Students 6th - 8th
Through a series of lessons, teachers can introduce students to epidemiology. Each lessons includes activities with teacher background information. The lessons can all be taught together or teacher can choose ones most applicable to...
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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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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.
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Website
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...
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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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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Disease Process

For Students 9th - 10th
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will study how your body is designed to fight off disease causing agents and what happens inside your body when you are actually sick. Additionally, you will learn how to organize...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Disease Occurrence, Distribution and Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn how scientists measure the occurrence of disease and track the distribution of disease while trying to analyze patterns of illness.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Neutrophil Proliferation and Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice questions over neutrophil proliferation and disease. Passage 2.
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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...
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Unit Plan
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.
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Online Course
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).
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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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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...