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Influenza Virus: A tiny moving target
Students investigate the structure and adaptability of viruses. In this viral diseases lesson, students play a game to introduce viruses and disease. They conduct computer research and complete interactive activities to investigate the...
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Viruses: Tiny But Deadly
In this viruses worksheet, students read given information about the effect of viruses on people throughout history. Students create a bar graph comparing the viruses and answer seven questions based on the information they have learned.
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Pandemic Flu
Young scholars review the difference between viruses and bacteria, and provide examples of illnesses that each can cause. To help students comprehend how quickly an influenza infection can spread, they perform an activity. They are...
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Pandemics
Students demonstrate their knowledge of past, present and future pandemics. They create timeline for the spread of Influenza Pandemic of 1918. They discuss parallels between outbreaks of influenza and bird flu.
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For the Birds
Students examine the different types of pandemic flu viruses and virus "scares" that have occurred over the past hundred years by creating a master chart that displays the origins, transmission, symptoms, and socio-historical impact of...
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WWI Home Front
Students examine WWI topics and answer questions about them. In this WWI propaganda lesson, students examine cartoons used during WWI and answer questions about the propaganda. Students then read letters about influenza and complete...
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Viruses
In this virus worksheet, 9th graders study the graph shown that illustrates the sizes of viruses, bacteria, and other structures. Then they state how large a red blood cell is and how large the smallest viruses are that affect plants....
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Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance
Pupils investigate the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in such menacing diseases as tuberculosis and influenza. They take on the role of staff at a public health agency who are trying to communicate the problem to the public.
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Blue With The Flu
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are related to having the flu and the answers to the word search are found at the bottom of the page.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: How Lou Got the Flu
Illustrated storybook description of how the influenza virus spreads from animals to humans.
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National Science Foundation: Scrub Club: Flu Game
The flu is on the loose! Learn how to keep this bug under control and away from you through proper hygiene. Take part in this excited interactive tutorial to become an influenza expert.
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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 Online News Hour: Flu Vaccine Shortage
The resource investigates the flu vaccine shortage during the 2004-2005 flu season. Articles on the demand and concerns of health officials regarding the shortage are included.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Influenza
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Tutorial covers the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic as a vehicle to look at viruses and disease, as well as the use of modern biological tools to improve human health....
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Travelers' Health: Disease Directory
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on over 40 diseases that travelers might need to be prepared for. Information includes description of disease, risk for travelers, preventive measures and treatment.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Eid: 1918 Influenza Pandemic
A comprehensive discussion of the influenza pandemic of 1918. Read about the investigation into the virus that caused the flu, where did the flu begin, and why did it sicken so many young adults. There are charts showing the incidence of...
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Kids Health: The Flu
This resource provides information about influenza, the vaccine, and who should receive it.
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Kids Health: Who Needs a Flu Shot
This resource provides information about influenza, the flu shot, and who should get one.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918 1919
Find out everything you wanted to know about the Great Influenza Pandemic in the United States that began in 1918. This site from the Department of Health and Human Services has information about life in the United States just as the flu...
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: Preventing the Flu
This resource provides key facts about flu prevention methods, including the flu shot. Includes PDFs (require Adobe Reader).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Preventing the Flu: Questions and Answers
Find simple answers to several common questions about the flu including: "How does the flu spread?" "What are the symptoms of the flu?" "How long is a person contagious?" "What is the difference between a cold and the flu?" "At what age...
The College of Physicians
The History of Vaccines
Complete medical education project explores the role and uses of vaccines now and in the past. Find information and analysis about vaccination controversies; answers to frequent questions about vaccinations; timelines of diseases,...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Timeline of the Influenza Epidemic
This site provides you a timeline of the influenza epidemic from March 1918 to December 1918 with a description of what happened during these months.