Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Eid: 1918 Influenza Pandemic
A comprehensive discussion of the influenza pandemic of 1918. Read about the investigation into the virus that caused the flu, where did the flu begin, and why did it sicken so many young adults. There are charts showing the incidence of...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Historic Epidemic and Pandemic Diseases
Investigate the historic epidemic and pandemic diseases such as the Plague of Athens, Black Death, Spanish flu, cholera, and smallpox on this site.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Epidemics and Pandemics
Kids learn about epidemics and pandemics in the science of biology including how they begin, how diseases spread, and the stages of a pandemic.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Program Your Own Covid 19 Simulator With Scratch
This activity uses the kid-friendly programming language Scratch to write a simulation that uses bouncing dots to represent healthy and sick people. The simulation will show how we can take measures to slow the spread of a transmissible...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Cross Curricular: Science
Explore global health issues by participating in research, discussions and presentations on topics such as exploring the dangers and scientific foundation of nuclear weapons and tracking the discovery, spread and control of disease.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Influenza
This site covers in depth the clinical features of influenza, different types, and the history of influenza.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Obesity and Overweight Introduction
The CDC provides a collection of information on obesity and the concerns that come with it.
Textbook of Bacteriology
Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Vibrio Cholerae and Asiatic Cholera
In addition to providing information on the intestinal disease cholera, this article discusses characteristics of the bacterium that causes it, Vibrio cholerae. This website includes a picture of the bacterium, a map of the disease's...
Other
Action on Smoking and Health
Established as a campaign to eliminate the epidemic of smoking, the Action on Smoking and Health aims to develop awareness about the use of tobacco, and reduce tobacco related diseases.
Other
Avert: Global Hiv and Aids Statistics
Provides in-depth coverage of the AIDS epidemic as it affects countries around the world. Content includes a look at the disease as it has spread from being a minor danger to an uncontrolled epidemic.
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Demographic Catastrophe: Native Population
When Christopher Columbus discovered the New World he and his entourage brought with them not only the views of Europeans, but also diseases of Europeans. This was catastrophic to the natives in the Caribbean Islands and Meso-America as...
Harvard University
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: The Yellow Fever
Students investigate the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Some topics explored are Benjamin Rush, the Santo Domingan influence, and background information on the yellow fever. Additional resources include web pages, references, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Polio Epidemiology
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).
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Extra: 2009 H1 N1 Flu: The Next Pandemic? (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan focuses on viruses, particularly the Swine Flu, and allows students opportunities to simulate how viruses spread and the results.
National Health Museum
Vaccines: How and Why?
This article describes the history of vaccines, how they work, and how they are made. Includes a list of references, a glossary, and links to activities.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Pandemics Spread
A discussion about the globalization of disease, and the implications of a pandemic. Mark Honigsbaum describes the history of pandemics and how scientists can help prevent future outbreaks. [8:00]
Stanford University
Stanford University: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Article that shows through text, photos, and historically significant documents the toll of the flu epidemic of 1918 in America.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nova: Addiction: Collection
The opioid epidemic continues to devastate communities across the United States. This collection of videos, including three from the NOVA documentary, Addiction, can be used to engage students with media, encourage science practices, and...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Aids in Africa
Activity-based resource on the AIDS epidemic and Africa. Students answer a set of questions for discussion and participate in an activity in which they analyze the literature and make recommendations as if from the U.S. State Department....
A&E Television
History.com: How Five of the World's Worst Pandemics Finally Ended
As human civilizations flourished, so did infectious disease. Large numbers of people living in close proximity to each other and to animals, often with poor sanitation and nutrition, provided fertile breeding grounds for disease. And...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Bubonic Plague
Wikipedia offers detailed information on the Bubonic Plague, an infectious disease that is believed to have caused several epidemics throughout history.
Other
Global Polio Eradication Initiative: History of Polio
This timeline from Global Polio Eradication Initiative of pictures, descriptions, and events -- all of which describe the history of polio and its vaccine -- is organized into three large sections: "Endemic Polio 1580BC-1953," "Vaccine...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How War Weakens National Immune Systems
Doctors Without Borders show how outbreaks of infections can devastate already war-torn communities.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Rift Valley Fever
The Classroom of the Future provides a nice activity integrating many subject areas. Students work in groups to research outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever in Kenya, and determine actions to control and prevent its spread. Background...