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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Trichuriasis

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the complete picture of the Trichuris trichiura parasite. Information about the whipworm includes its geographical range, agents of infection, life cycle, symptoms, and treatment options.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Trypanosomiasis

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a comprehensive overview of the Trypanosomiasis parasite. Find out its geographical distribution, means of infection, symptoms and treatment options.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Brain Parasites Change Their Host's Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
The biggest challenge in a parasite's life is to move from one host to another. Intriguingly, many parasites have evolved the ability to manipulate the behavior of their hosts to improve their own survival- sometimes even by direct brain...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Parasite Tales: The Jewel Wasp's Zombie Slave

For Students 9th - 10th
This is stranger than science fiction. The jewel wasp and the cockroach have a disgusting and fascinating parasitic relationship. The jewel wasp stuns the cockroach, and months later, a jewel wasp hatches out of the cockroach. At...
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Success Link

Success Link: Autobiography of a Parasite

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this lesson plan as an interesting culmination of a study of parasites. Students use the information they've gathered to write an autobiography of thelife cycle of the parasite of their choice.
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University of Nebraska

University of Nebraska State Museum: Parasite Sleuth: Where Parasites Live

For Students 9th - 10th
This site highlights 10 parasites, including worms, insects, ticks and microorganisms. For each organism you can get information concerning their life cycle and geographic distribution.
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext "The Parasite"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, "The Parasite."
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Division of Parasitic Diseases

For Students 9th - 10th
This database includes life cycles, images, and diagnosis information for several parasites that can infect humans. The search does work better using scientific names.
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Cells Alive

Cells Alive!: Protozoan Parasites

For Students 9th - 10th
Two video clips and facts of two different types of protozoan parasites are offered: Giardia lamblia and Entamoeba hystolytica. Images and information are also provided about Cryptosporidium parvum.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Taeniasis

For Students 9th - 10th
This CDC resource will give you a comprehensive understanding of the tapeworm parasite. You can learn how it infects people, where it's found, the symptoms it causes and the way it can be treated.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Examples of Parasitism

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what parasitism is and provides a few examples of parasitic relationships.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Obligate Intracellular Parasite

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the characteristics of obligate intracellular parasites and gives examples.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Types of Parasites

For Students 9th - 10th
Different types of parasites that infect humans, dogs, and cats are described.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Parasitic Flatworms

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes types of flatworms that are parasitic to humans and animals and what their life cycle looks like. Two or more hosts are needed for them to complete their life cycle.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Ascariasis

For Students 9th - 10th
For the complete picture of the roundworm Ascariasis, check out this thorough resource. It investigates geographic range, agents of infection, symptoms and treatment options.
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PBS

Pbs Jean Michel Cousteau: Parasite Perils Data Analysis Game

For Teachers 7th - 8th
This lesson is designed for Grades 7 and 8 and has learners gather and analyze data from research on salmon populations and the impact of the sea louse on their survival rates. They then apply their findings by looking at how orca whale...
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Stanford University

Enterobius Vermicularis

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the facts on the pinworm parasite. Everything from the history of discovery to public health strategies is available. A life cycle diagram provides a good overview of the problem of disease transmission.
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Colorado State University

Colorado State: Insect Parasitic Nematodes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a general overview of the Insect Parasitic Nematodes (a small round worm). Content includes a look at this worm's life cycle and its benefit/impact on the environment as biological insect control.
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Other

Biology of the Goat: Internal Parasites

For Students 9th - 10th
Goat parasites direct life cycles, indirect life cycles, and survival mechanisms are explained in this competent site.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Amebiasis

For Students 9th - 10th
A very comprehensive over view of the Entamoeba histolytica. Information includes geographic distribution, infection agents, symptoms and treatment.
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Other

Malaria Foundation International: Life Cycle of the Malaria Parasite

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a diagram of the life cycle of the malaria parasite.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Parasite by Arthur Conan Doyle

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the novel The Parasite by Arthur Conan Doyle. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Roundworm Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Characteristics of roundworms, an intestinal parasite, are described, including anatomy, reproduction, habitat, and what happens when a human is infected by them.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour: The Final Fight Against Guinea Worm Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Former President Jimmy Carter visits Sudan on his campaign to end water-borne guinea worm, a debilitating parasite infection.

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