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Questions & answers Medical/Technology
Create questions and answers for medical situations with your class. Use the document to role play or for independent practice.
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Health Care Helpers
Students explore rescue and medical careers and then discuss ways that emergency personnel help people on-the-job. They choose a health topic and write a list of basic health rules. Students design a poster depicting a scene in which...
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Brain-Controlled Robotic Arms: Cloze activity with Article
Fascinating content about current medical research on brain-controlled prosthetics comes in cloze activity form with a link to the original article. Useful for listening and reading comprehension skills development, and for any science...
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Health Vocabulary
For this vocabulary worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions about health and medicine. Students are instructed to choose the best answer, as some questions have more than one acceptable answer.
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First Aid Word Search
For this health worksheet, high schoolers find the words that are related to first aid and the answers are found by clicking the link at the bottom of the page.
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Anatomy-It's Called What?
In this anatomy worksheet, students match the vocabulary term with the definition on the right. The answers are accessed through clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Safety and Security
Students, after reviewing and drilling on a unique vocabulary list of terms, analyze the proper procedures for fire, crime or medical emergencies. They examine how to stay calm and collected during such emergencies and why its important...
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Medical Scene Investigators
Students investigate physical, psychological and societal implications of various medical problems. Using internet technology and videos, students gather information on a medical problem. They compare/contrast viewpoints that may...
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Glaucoma
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are associated with the practice of optometry and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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AND THE BAND PLAYED ON
Students identify the medical and social issues associated with HIV. They view the video "And the Band Played On". Students in groups categorize the information acquires and search for potential solutions to address these issues.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical Assistants
This resource offers a comprehensive site that lists significant points, working conditions, job outlook, training/advancement, earnings, realted occupations, and sources for additional information regarding Medical Assistants.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Infectious Diseases: Modern Medicines
An interactive, self-guided lesson on how medicine prevents and cures disease. This lesson has many descriptive animations as well diagrams to help with understanding. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
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American Association of Medical Assistants
This AAMA Medical Assistant site provides a comprehensive source for professional information including such topics as: education, certification, news/events, journal highlights, and a job source listing.
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American Medical Technologists
Home Page for the national agency that certifies health practitioners such as Medical Technologists, Medical Laboratory Technicians, Office Laboratory Technicians, Phlebotomy Technicians, and more.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Who Owns Rights to Pharmacogenetic Information?
This lesson plan explores ethical issues around ownership of scientific and human DNA information. Students learn about the benefits and risks of new drugs, and related ethical matters, and what the concerns are about sharing of genetic...
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Canadian Sports Massage Therapists Association
Homepage of professional sports massage therapists in Canada. Basic information on sports massage therapy benefits, training courses, books, and recent journal articles are all included.
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American Psychiatric Association: Homepage
Home page of a professional organization of physicians specializing in psychiatry or the treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Preconditioning Balloons
Students use balloons (a polymer) to explore preconditioning a viscoelastic material behavior that is important to understand when designing biomedical devices. They improve their understanding of preconditioning by measuring the force...
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Teach Engineering: Biomedical Engineering and the Human Body
Human beings are fascinating and complex living organisms-a symphony of different functional systems working in concert. Through a 10-lesson series with hands-on activities students are introduced to seven systems of the human...
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Teach Engineering: Next Generation Surgical Tools in the Body
Through this unit, students act as engineers who are given the challenge to design laparoscopic surgical tools. After learning about human anatomy and physiology of the abdominopelvic cavity, especially as it applies to laparoscopic...
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Teach Engineering: Tissue Mechanics
Students reflect on their experiences making silly putty (the previous hands-on activity in the unit), especially why changing the borax concentration alters the mechanical properties of silly putty and how this pertains to tissue...
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Teach Engineering: Simulation in Healthcare
Students learn how engineering design is applied to solve healthcare problems by using an engineering tool called simulation. While engineering design is commonly used to study and design everything from bridges, factories, airports to...
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Teach Engineering: Blood Pressure Basics
Learners study how heart valves work and investigate how valves that become faulty over time can be replaced with advancements in engineering and technology. Learning about the flow of blood through the heart, students are able to fully...