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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Providers: Community Screening Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This Guide is intended to assist facilitators to use the film as a starting point to address the healthcare crisis in rural communities across America. As our nation's demographics become more urban, rural populations are aging, have...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How State Budgets Are Breaking Us Schools

For Students 9th - 10th
America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and are weighted with worsening...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Let's Simplify Legal Jargon

For Students 9th - 10th
Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign- and plain English- to make legal paperwork intelligible to...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: This Temporary Tattoo Helps Women Have Healthy Pregnancies

For Students 9th - 10th
Bioelectronics innovator Todd Coleman shares his quest to develop wearable, flexible electronic health monitoring patches that promise to revolutionize healthcare and make medicine less invasive. [9:39]
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Other

Do Bugs Need Drugs?: Antibiotics Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This non-profit organization provides information for healthcare professionals, the public, teachers, parents, children, daycares and assisted living sites.
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Other

Power of Attorney

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on the Power of Attorney. It stresses the importance of a durable power of attorney for health care.
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Other

Administration on Aging: Key Indicators of Well Being

For Students 9th - 10th
This site reports on older Americans and how to tell what their health status is. A good site for preventative health care and to research geriatric health.
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Other

Cmmb: Catholic Medical Mission Board

For Students 9th - 10th
Non-profit organization focused on the healthcare of people around the globe. Find resources about CMMB, its history, current programs, etc.
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Other

National Association of Pediatric Nursing

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of an association of professional nurses and nurse practitioners working in pediatric healthcare settings. Educational, professional, and research resources are available through this site. These include online publications and...
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Travel Document Systems

Tds: Mozambique: People

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the ethnic groups and religions of the people of Mozambique. There is a chart showing information about languages, health care, education, and work force. Information is from the CIA World Fact Book.
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National Institutes of Health

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is the home page of a professional organization of physicians and other healthcare providers who specialize in complementary and alternative medicinal practices.
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Other

Food for the Poor

For Students 9th - 10th
Non-profit organization that "provides food, housing, healthcare, education, water projects, mirco-enterprise development assistance and emergency relief to the poorest of the poor".
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Other

National Association of Hispanic Nurses

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Association of Hispanic Nurses provides career resources for nurses working in healthcare and serving their community.
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Other

Hospital Link: Locate a Hospital

For Students 9th - 10th
Locate hospital homepages throughout the US. Also offers job boards for health care professionals and .md domain name registration.
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Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Antenna: Nanotechnology: Small Science, Big Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of how nanotechnology can manipulate tiny particles and have applications in sports, clothing, foods, electronics, pollution control, alternative fuels, crime fighting, wars, and healthcare.
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Emergency Nurses Association

For Students 9th - 10th
Homepage of a professional nurses association working in Emergency healthcare settings. Professional, educational, and research resources are available.
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Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family use: that is, they do not grow all their own food, sew their own clothes, build their own house and provide...
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Wonderville Media

Animal World/wonderville: Dogs

For Students K - 1st
Dogs have needs just like you. They need food, water, shelter, grooming, exercise, health care, and love. Learn more about dogs in this well-constructed overview by Wonderville.
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Rhode Island Department of Health

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the government health site for the state of Rhode Island. Includes disease prevention and control, family health, health care quality, etc.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Court Rejects New York City's Portion Cap for Sugary Drinks

For Students 7th - 8th
In 2014, Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, designed a proposal known as "the soda ban" that would put limits on the size of sugary drinks that people could buy. The proposal was favored among health advocates, including...
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Other

Project Hope

For Students 9th - 10th
Project HOPE, which stands for Health Opportunities for People Everywhere, is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing health care to everyone across the globe. Their work includes education programs, providing medicines and...
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Other

Ed Surge: Can Anyone Be an Inventor? Mit's Invention Education Officer Says Yes

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is part of The EdSurge Podcast. Today, there are plenty of middle and high school students who have developed solutions to major economic and social challenges, ranging from health care and transportation to agriculture and...
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Global Surgical Training Challenge: How Multidisciplinary Approach Leads to Successful Innovation Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
To include a designer with no healthcare experience in a medical device project might not make so much sense at first. An artist may feel out of place among the engineers, business experts or medical specialists. But, in fact, it's a...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Providers: High School Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for high school audiences, this Guide can be used to facilitate dialogue about, and deepen understanding of, the complex issues portrayed in The Providers - a documentary that follows three healthcare providers in northern New...

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