Curated OER
What's the Matter? - Oral Language Skills
In this oral language practice worksheet, students practice giving advice for situations such as having a blister, a sore throat, or a fever. They answer 5 questions about their own health.
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What's the Matter With You?
In this ESL vocabulary building activity, students study 7 pictures that depict people in trouble or with an illness. Students answer the questions "What's the matter with you?" by writing a complete sentence that describes the picture.
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What's the Matter?
In this word and picture matching instructional activity, students examine 7 pictures that depict various ailments. Students match the names of the illnesses with the pictures.
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Illness
In this word and picture matching activity, students analyze 10 pictures of children with a variety of illness (stomach ache, headache, cough, etc.). Students match the pictures with the words that name each illness.
National First Ladies' Library
Presidential Illness: Constitutional Crisis?
Pupils use the internet and other sources to explore incidents where the President of the United States has become incapacitated. They research the reasons for the 25th Amendment, and solutions set in place to solve the problem of...
Curated OER
Germs
Third graders dicsuss germ. They discuss how they can't see them (germs), but they're everywhere! Students are asked if germs cause disease? They discuss some types of illnesses they get from germs. Students discuss ways inwhich...
Curated OER
Integrated Social Studies Lesson and Science Lesson
Fourth graders discuss the Civil War and the fact that many soldiers died during the war as a result of sickness. They discuss germs and participate in an activity that shows them how germs are spread and how they can be stopped from...
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Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics
Students review vocabulary of common illness necessary to request medical attention. They work in groups to play pictionary using related vocabulary wordsassociated with their health.
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Maintaining Employment, ESOL
Students discuss work schedule and brainstorm all words associated with a work schedule. They write a class story about job skills then evalutate acceptable and unacceptable activities during employment.
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Nutrition and Health
Middle schoolers explore the conditions faced while sailing on the ocean regarding health and physical fitness. They experience the importance of Vitamin C. Students analyze the cause of many diseases and sicknesses on the ships.
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Welcome Back, Carrie!
Students use the Internet and create questionnaires to determine how to help seriously ill students to function optimally at school. They find ways to accomodate the needs of those students and create a weblet to help them.
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Plagued by Poverty
Students investigate the nature, causes and statistics of diseases in lesser-developed countries and explore ways in which disease impacts the global population. They write a speech regarding disease in their country and how to prevent it.
National Institutes of Health
Nih: Cell Biology and Cancer
An online resource for teachers that provides inquiry-based modules for students to reseach cancer in an interesting and personalized way. Includes master copies of each module for teachers.
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Reconstructors: Nothing to Rave About
Online adventure game consisting of three consecutive episodes where you become a member of a team of scientists who investigate pain relieving drugs to see if they are safe. These virtual experiments cover concepts such as history of...
Other
Congestive Heart Failure
This site provides in-depth information about congestive heart failure (CHF). The site asks and answers important questions to better educate the public.
Other
Ncagr: Bad Bug Book
A kids' version of the "bad bug" book. Staph is listed with a brief look at what foods are associated with this bacteria, what the symptoms are, how long it lasts and how to prevent it. Great for younger kids and good general info for...
Other
The Lung Association: Emphysema
An explanation of Emphysema, using text and illustrations to help with understanding.
Stanford University
The Cystic Fibrosis Center at Stanford: Managing Cystic Fibrosis
Learn here the different wasy for cystic fibrosis to be managed. Choose a topic and read the article that follows.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Videos Y Multimedia
Online presentations on more than 150 health topics, diseases, and conditions, from acne to viruses. Each plays as a slide presentation, with sound, that you can control or set to autoplay. Time varies from 5-20 minutes. Available in...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Illnesses
Outstanding reference in Spanish and English for illnesses, disease, immunization and other health-related issues. Most of the Spanish links tied to its menu have English counterparts.
Other
Shigella: About
Very informative site! Includes a history of the bacteria shigella and how it was discovered. Also, symptoms, risks, detection, treatment, causes and information about recent outbreaks.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: A Z Index for Diseases and Conditions
For health information at your fingertips, this A to Z list of diseases and conditions links to information on specific illnesses.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 3: Unit 6: La Salud
In this learning module, students learn how to talk about illness, the body, and one's health, and compare health care facilities in Hispanic countries to those in the US. Includes games, exercises, modeled vocalization of words and...
National Institutes of Health
Nih: The Heart Truth: A Campaign for Women About Heart Disease
This comprehensive resource offers information about cardiovascular diseases for women and includes major risk factors.