Curated OER
Health: Dear Me
Students examine data supporting the increase in health risks due to obesity. They write letters to their future selves giving strategies for maintaining a healthy weight in adulthood by maintaining an appropriate energy balance.
Curated OER
Infectious Diseases
Seventh graders create a brochure for a fictional pharmaceutical company.
Curated OER
Epidemic!
Pupils research recent episodes when diseases like colds or flus spread through their school. It also asks them to think of public health measures that might stop a disease from spreading again.
Curated OER
Engineer a Solution
Students start by considering the numerous problems facing New York City during the first half of the 19th century, including fire, epidemics, and crime. In addition, they explore how New York's citizens and government tried to solve...
Other
Nsf International: Nsf Scrub Club
Keep yourself clean, kill bacteria, and stay healthy all year long by washing your hands (and under your fingernails) with warm soapy water. Play the "6 Steps Game" to learn how to properly clean your hands, meet the "villains" that...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Tracking the Health Effects of Natural Disasters
Students examine the impact of natural disasters, such as flooding, on public health, and study diseases and other secondary conditions associated with stagnant water. Lesson includes resources for students to research epidemics and...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Rediscovering Biology: Unit 5: Emerging Infectious Diseases
A complete learning module on emerging infectious diseases that includes a downloadable textbook chapter, teacher guide, and lesson activities. The chapter can also be viewed online. In addition, there are animations, images, a video,...
Other
Frontline: Zika Uncontained
A comprehensive news report about the Zika virus in Brazil. Zika is a serious concern because of how rapidly it is spreading throughout the world and the dangers it brings.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Passing the Bug
Young scholars apply concepts of disease transmission to analyze infection data, either provided or created using Bluetooth-enabled Android devices. This data collection may include several cases, such as small static groups...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Disease Lab
Manipulate characteristics of fictional diseases and see how the changes effect a population. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Simulating the Bug
Students modify a provided App Inventor code to design their own diseases. This serves as the evolution step in the software/systems design process. The activity is essentially a mini design cycle in which students are challenged to...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Mc Kinley Health Center: Contagious: Communicable Diseases
This resource provides a list of communicable diseases. Click the name of the disease to go to a page that displays information about that particular disease such as what it is, what its symptoms are, how it is treated, etc.
PBS
Pbs Nova Teachers: The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Classroom Activity
Test the efficacy of different types of hand hygiene to stem the transmission of diseases by conducting an experiment using variables and a control group.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Brain Eater
Examine the complex relationships among science, public policy and public health, research a disease that poses a public health threat and develop a strategy for limiting the spread of the disease.
Other
Dr. Reddy's Pediatric Office: Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)
Dr. Reddy talks about conjunctivitis (pink eye), describing what it is and how one gets it.
United Nations
United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Fighting Disease
The United Nations has distributed this list to make school age children aware of the communicable diseases that have most recently had an effect on society. Good descriptions are provided for each of the 11 diseases.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Handwashing
Discusses how handwashing can prevent spread of infection if practiced regularly and properly.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Trichinosis
Fact sheet, which is provided for by the Center for Disease Control, concerning trichinosis.
WebMD
Web Md: Necrotizing Fasciitis (Flesh Eating Bacteria): Topic Overview
Find out about necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria, including its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatments.
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...
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Head Lice
A short explanation of what head lice are. Includes links to comprehensive information regarding detection, symptoms, prevention, and treatment. This page is available in numerous languages.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Family doctor.org: Head Lice
This resource is a one-page article provides a brief overview of head lice: causes, risk factors, symptoms, and treatment.
Remedy Health Media
Health Central: Measles
This site from HealthCentral provides a detailed overview of rubeola (measles). Content includes a list of alternative names, causes, symptoms, treatment, complications, and more. Great pictures too.