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Peel-Public Health

What Is Respiratory Infection?

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Empower your pupils to be germ stoppers! The heart of these lessons lies in stopping the spread of germs and keeping clean hands in order to prevent cases like a respiratory infection. It includes a game to simulate how germs can spread...
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Cengage Learning

Infection Control and Standard Precautions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
With the number of COVID-19 cases rising dramatically, information about how standard precautions can be used to control infection is essential. The 16 slides in a presentation outline of how people need to change their daily habits to...
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Development of Disease and Infection

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's all in the cards. Using cards to simulate a disease's attack on the immune system, pupils develop an understanding of how the immune system and pathogens react to each other and why at times the pathogen wins. Groups play a game to...
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The New York Times

Sequencing the Stages: Understanding H.I.V. Infection at the Molecular Level

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
How does HIV operate at the molecular level? Pupils discover the progression from a healthy immune cell to one infected with HIV, watch an animation of the HIV life cycle, and finally identify each of the stages with illustrations on...
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Peel-Public Health

What Is Respiratory Infection?

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Give your youngsters a comprehensive introduction to the importance of washing hands and preventing the spread of germs in three activities, which include identifying what germs are, discovering where germs live, and practicing a variety...
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Creative Learning Exchange

The Infection Game: The Shape of Change

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Encourage the spread of knowledge in your class with this cross-curricular epidemic simulation. Pulling together science, social studies, and math, this lesson engages students in modeling the spread of infectious diseases, collecting...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Germs: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Beware the bugs! Two activities engage high schoolers in the study of germs, what they are, what they do to the body, and what can be done to prevent them from spreading. After reading a series of related articles, groups create a...
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Curated OER

Infection Control/Workplace Safety

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students role play as nurse managers in a hospital and are faced with an infection control crisis. They are to examine the feasible ways to solve and control the problem. Students utilize technology, language arts, trade and industry,...
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Curated OER

Infection Control Word Search

For Students 4th - 9th
In this word search worksheet, students search for terms related to infection control and community health. Words include infectious agents and other health terms.
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Curated OER

Fertility and Infertility

For Teachers 11th - 12th
FLASH has put together a pretty comprehensive instructional activity on fertility and infertility. There is a lot of information on the male and female reproductive systems, fertility, reducing the odds for infertility, the menstrual...
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Curated OER

What Are the Signs and Symptoms of HIV Infection

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students identify the symptoms of HIV. In this disease control lesson, students listen to a mini-lecture on the symptoms of HIV. Students locate information on the Internet about ELIZA and confidentiality regarding HIV testing. Students...
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Curated OER

Wherever We Go, There They Are!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The central video for this lesson is not available through the included resource link. However, the activity that simulates the passing of a virus through a population is impacting and the other resource links are invaluable. Use this...
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Cengage Learning

COVID-19 and Coronaviruses

For Teachers 6th - 12th
COVID-19 = CO (corona) + VI (virus) + D (disease) =19 (the year the disease first appeared) NOVEL (unknown to scientists and never before infected human patients). A colorful nine-slide presentation details what is currently known about...
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Curated OER

Epidemic, Plague, and Infection

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students recognize disease vectors (pathways) and risk factors for infectious diseases.
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UNICEF

Knowing Your Risk for HIV/AIDS

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What are the various ways people can become infected with HIV? Build awareness with your pupils and dispel common myths on the transmission of HIV with this resource, which includes a brainstorming activity, group discussion, and a...
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Curated OER

Maternal Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explain the relationship among nutrition, infection and diseases. In this health science lesson plan, students suggest ways to break the nutrition-infection cycle. They brainstorm solutions to prevent infectious diseases in the...
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Curated OER

Viral Invaders

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students conduct a critical investigation of the West Nile Virus. They assess the relationship between the sources of information and their credibility. Students use their findings to create a public health campaign about the virus.
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Curated OER

Skin and Sports

For Teachers 4th - 8th
The topic is protecting our own protective covering: the skin. In particular, the information deals with sweating as a means of temperature regulation and the need to wear clothing appropriate for allowing the process to occur. Learners...
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Curated OER

"Pandemic" A Disease Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use small test tubes with water, salt and a silver nitrate solution to simulate the spread of infectious disease contracted the exchange of bodily fluid. They problem solve to track the original source of infection.
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Curated OER

Some Similarities Between the Spread of an Infectious Disease and Population Growth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compare and contrast the spread of infectious diseases and population growth. In this biology lesson, students identify the exponential growth pattern of spreading diseases. They relate this to HIV infection and AIDS.
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Curated OER

Sexually Transmissible Diseases (STDs) - Day 1: Overview

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pages and pages of information on sexually transmissible diseases (STD). Vocabulary, worksheets, reference sheets, questions for discussion, and more. Transmission and reducing the risk of transmission of a STD. Signs, symptoms, and...
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Curated OER

Safer Sex - Lesson 1

For Teachers 7th - 10th
  High schoolers investigate the practices related to safer sex and define what it means in our society today. Guiding questions are used to facilitate classroom discussion. The goal is for high schoolers to define and identify the...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Teach Mrs. Jones' Class about Microbes

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
During a biology lesson, scholars research microbes, design a lesson plan using an outline, and present the lesson to the class. 
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Curated OER

Sexually Transmissible Diseases (STDs), Day 4: Epidemiology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or infections (STIs) are totally preventable. Yet, the number of cases is on the rise. Why? This health lesson contains a lot of information about prevention, as well as a great activity about how...

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