Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Medmyst: Nemesis in Neuropolis
In this online learning adventure game, students will play the role of scientist, historian, and detective. By solving the problem presented in this smallpox case, they will learn how infectious diseases are spread, how the smallpox...
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Medmyst: Malady in Mabuufo
This is the fourth in a series of five missions that deal with how infectious diseases are spread. In this interactive adventure game, students are part of a team of investigators conducting field and laboratory investigations to learn...
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Med Myst: Zero Hour Zoonoses
This is the last in a series of five missions that deal with how infectious diseases are spread. In this interactive adventure game, students are part of a team of investigators conducting field and laboratory investigations to learn...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Milestones in Microbiology
Students read about six important discoveries in microbiology and put them on a timeline. They develop an understanding of how these discoveries connect to the invention of new scientific tools and technology. The lesson and PowerPoint...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Microbes and Disease
Students learn about six diseases caused by microorganisms. A video that looks at the impact disease has had on human history and society is provided. Students work in groups to read information about one disease, then share what they...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Infectious Disease Case Study
In this activity, young scholars analyze a child's symptoms to determine whether she has a cold, the flu, strep throat, or a nasal allergy. They also learn the differences between viruses and bacteria. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Ernst Boris Chain Biographical
Read about the 1945 co-laureate of the Nobel Prize in Medicine -- Ernst Boris Chain. This Nobel article overviews Chain's education and personal life, but focuses mainly on his his contributions to the study of bacteriology and penicillin.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Ernst Chain Nobel Lecture: Chemical Structure of Penicillins
Download and read Ernst Boris Chain's Nobel Lecture, "The chemical structure of the penicillin." Originally given March 20, 1946, this lecture is downloadable in PDF format. Site by Nobel Foundation.
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Med Myst: Reloaded: Disease Defenders
In this online adventure game, become part of a team of experts investigating an infectious disease outbreak. Learn about the science of infectious disease and the medical careers of real scientists such as an epidemiologist,...
Stanford University
Stanford University: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Article that shows through text, photos, and historically significant documents the toll of the flu epidemic of 1918 in America.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Infectious Disease
Investigate the spread of infectious diseases from whites to Native Americans during the westward expansion of the 1800s, and compare cholera to Ebola and other infectious diseases.
PBS
Pbs Online: Ernst Chain
Ernst Chain PBS entry details the professional and personal life of this Nobel Prize winning chemist. Page profiles his early life in Germany and family fortune and potential career as a pianist, to his breakthrough research in...
Read Works
Read Works: Making Your Mark
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about piercings and tattoos as body art. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Pathogens
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Has this ever happened to you? A student sitting next to you in class has a cold. The other student is coughing and sneezing, but you feel fine. Two days later, you...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Hand Washing Experiment
By conducting two experiments, this lesson plan will help students discover the importance of thoroughly washing hands and the role that plays as a way to prevent the spread of disease.
About Kids Health
About Kids Health: Scarlet Fever
Features a general overview of scarlet fever which is a strep throat infection with a rash. Learn what it is, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tb and Hiv
Two deadly diseases, HIV and TB, can often co-exist in the same patient. Treatment of these diseases is discussed as is the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (iris) and the paradoxical iris.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Drug Resistant Tb
Learn the different kinds of drug resistance and ways to treat that resistance. Discussion includes treating patients who have relapsed with the same infection or a new TB infection.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Treatment of Active Tb
A discussion of how to treat Active TB in order to prevent disability and death from the infection and to reduce the spread of the disease.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Preventing Tb Using "4 I's"
Learn how to help prevent tuberculosis by using the "4I's" model: Intensive Case Findings, Isoniazid, Isolation, and Immunization.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Preventing Tb Transmission
Preventing tuberculosis transmission includes the following: medication, isolation, surgical mask, distancing/spacing from other, air purifying respirator, and HEPA filter.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Diagnosing Active Tuberculosis
Discover how clinical clues including chest X-ray, TB skin test, and Sputum sample, can determine if someone has an active TB infection.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpreting the Ppd
Discover how the cut off for a "positive PPD" depends on clinical clues.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Pulmonary Tb
The effects of tuberculosis has on the lungs and the clinical signs associated with it. Also discussed is pleural tuberculosis.