Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: What You Need to Know About Drugs
Drugs are chemicals that change the way a person's body works. Some drugs help you feel better, but drugs also can harm you. Learn more in this article for kids.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Overview of Psychoactive Drugs
An overview of psychoactive drugs: depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and opiates.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Psychoactive Drugs: Depressants and Opiates
An explanation of the effects the psychoactive drugs, depressants and opiates, have on the body.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Medicine and Health Care
Simulate the spread of germs and explore current issues in the field of medicine such as the placebo effect, contraception and myths and facts about AIDS. Describe how pandemics have changed history, and discover how x-rays and...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?
Sara Garofalo explains how some drugs can alter the communication between cells in the brain.
Scholastic
Scholastic: All About Medicine
This lesson will define over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and prescription medicines and the similarities and differences between them. This lesson will also introduce the OTC Drug Facts label and discuss how to use medicine responsibly.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Medicine Box Challenge
Students learn about how medicines work in the body, and find out some information about dosing and packaging. The challenge is for student teams must produce a number of boxes to be used as packaging for a new medicine. Then they must...
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Infectious Diseases: Modern Medicines
An interactive, self-guided lesson on how medicine prevents and cures disease. This lesson has many descriptive animations as well diagrams to help with understanding. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
University of Pennsylvania
History and Sociology of Science: America's Golden Age of Medicine?
Examine the history of the Golden Age of Medicine in America from the 1930s through the 1960s. Use photographs, primary sources, essays, and the suggested questions to trace the advances made in drugs, technology, and the delivery of...
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: History of Medicine
A complete, self-guided lesson on the history of medicine and the advancements in medical technology. An interactive, virtual timeline helps students visualize the historical events. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Lewis's Medicine Chest
Discover what Lewis had on his shopping list of medical supplies. The contents of Lewis's list have much to tell us about the medical challenges he expected to face on his journey. It included both botanical and chemical medicines,...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Medicine and Pharmaceutical Drugs
Kids learn about medicine and pharmaceutical drugs including how new drugs are researched and approved, types of drugs, and ways they can be administered.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information
A guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) in the USP DI and Advice for the Patient.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Risk Factors for Drug Use and Drug Abuse
A description of the factors (biological risks, psychological risks, socio-cultural risks, and environmental risks) that relate to each other in complicated ways that can lead to drug abuse or drug addiction.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Drug Use Prevention: School Programming and Protective Factors?
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Drug Dependence and Homeostasis
An explanation of homeostasis and related to drug dependence and drug overdose.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Routes of Drug Entry
The routes of drug entry are explored including oral, inhalation, injection, transdermal, and intramuscular.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Treatments and Triggers for Drug Dependence
As a psychological disease, drug addiction is a medical problem with psychological and physiological components. Pharmacological treatments and therapy such as AAA are examined.
Other
World of Molecules: Drug Molecules
Investigate the three-dimensional structure of various molecules of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Drug Resistant Tb
Learn the different kinds of drug resistance and ways to treat that resistance. Discussion includes treating patients who have relapsed with the same infection or a new TB infection.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Antiviral Drugs for the Flu
An explanation of the antiviral drugs, Oseltamivir and Zanamivir, which can be use to treat and help prevent the flu.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction
This article explains the concepts of drug use and dependence.
Read Works
Read Works: Smart About Medicine
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about using medication safely. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Schaffer Library of Drug Policy: The Pure Food and Drugs Act
Read about the passage of the bane of the snake oil salesmen, the Pure Food and Drugs Act.