Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Packaging Your Product!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss the functions, benefits and drawbacks of packaging.  In this product package lesson plan students design alternative packaging and write an essay to deal with the issues of packaging. 
Interactive
Curated OER

Intermediate Sentence Completion: 21

For Students 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, 4th graders fill in the blanks with 2 words for each sentence. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Protecting the Herd

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students simulate the spread of a fictitious disease using an internet-based simulation. In this biology lesson, students predict the factors that could affect epidemic. They investigate these prediction using computer simulation.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Intermediate Sentence Completion 2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read the sentences and choose the best word to complete the sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Pe Central: Health Lesson Idea Menu

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Pecentral provides fantastic health lesson plans for teachers. The site includes a search menu which allows for category/age specific searching. Searchable topics include: alcohol, drugs, disease, community health, injury prevention,...
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National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Drug Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides statistics and facts about the health effects of specific drugs, prevention and treatment, and survey data.
Article
BBC

Bbc: Week of 7 28 14: Bedtime Light 'May Stop Cancer Drug Working'

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how light impacts human hormones during sleep, and how it may prevent a drug called Tamoxifen from working.
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Other

Drug Free America Foundation

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource covers all illegal drugs and provides information on health risks, drugs in the workplace, case stories, moral and spiritual issues, state drug initiatives, and a kids section.
Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Should You Take Statins?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article on looks at statins, a family of drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol.
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Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Current information on substance abuse with regard to many issues: military families, health, trauma and justice, public awareness and support and housing and homelessness. Also, find information on prevention of substance abuse. Many...
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Remedy Health Media

Health Central: Medications

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives detailed profiles of over a thousand prescription drugs for a range of health conditions. Information included in each profile includes important facts, side effects, warnings, and more.
Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Hepatitis C

For Students 9th - 10th
This overview of hepatitis C includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and the like.
Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Chronic Hepatitis

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough overview of chronic hepatitis. Includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and much more.
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drug Use Prevention: School Programming and Protective Factors?

For Students 9th - 10th
Drug abuse prevention by way of the government and the ineffectiveness of programs aimed at stopping drug use in schools such as D.A.R.E. and Just Say No. Discussed are factors in families, schools, and communities that lead to stopping...
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Antiviral Drugs for the Flu

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the antiviral drugs, Oseltamivir and Zanamivir, which can be use to treat and help prevent the flu.
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Preventing Malaria

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of how to prevent getting malaria including insecticides, repellents, eliminating mosquito breeding areas, malaria prophylactic drugs.
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Other

Sophe : Focus Areas: Sophe Health Topics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Provides short synopses of the many health issues and causes of illness or disability facing students today.
Article
Other

Story md.com: Cardiovascular Continuum

For Students 9th - 10th
The significance of the cardiovascular continuum is its emphasis on prevention. By treating risk factors that occur early in the cardiovascular continuum, like hypertension, diabetes, high blood fat levels, and smoking, it may be...
Handout
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Samhsa News: A Guide for Parents on Preventing Substance Abuse

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide gives parents tips on how to help keep their children drug-free. Describes warning signs that might be seen and discusses ways in which parents can talk to their children about this topic. Includes a 16-page PDF file called...
Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: An Ounce of Prevention Keeps the Germs Away (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about preventing illness, and forming healthy habits.
Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Hepatitis B

For Students 9th - 10th
Intelihealth profiles hepatitis B, its symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
Article
WebMD

Web Md: Airborne Allergens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from WebMD Health provides an article entitled, "Something in the Air: Airborne Allergens". Includes detailed information on why some people are allergic to certain substances, while others are not. Symptoms of airborne...
Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Gertrude Elion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about a the scientist who won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work in the scientific discovery of drugs to treat leukemia and herpes, and to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants.
Handout
US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Leprosy

For Students 9th - 10th
Leprosy, its causes and symptoms, and its treatment and prevention are briefly discussed on this site, provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.