Curated OER
Kids Health: Encephalitis
An easy to understand but complete look at the causes and symptoms of encephalitis, especially in children. Site also contains links to related illnesses in children.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Pneumonia
This site from MayoClinic.com provides a great overview of pneumonia. Brief and factual, the entry includes a picture that shows the process of pneumonia. Includes links to an overview, signs and symptoms, causes, treatment, prevention,...
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Dengue Fever
Learn about how Dengue is transmitted and what it does to the human body.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Yellow Fever
This site from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has information on yellow fever. The site is broken into the following sections: Yellow Fever Disease, Yellow Fever Vaccine Requirements, Yellow Fever Precautions, and Risk...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Rhinovirus
Want to see a 3D model of the main cause of the common cold, the rhinovirus? This site contains an interactive 3D model of this RNA genome virus. Site also contains a STL file that can be used to print the model to a 3D printer.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Nodamura Virus
This site contains an interactive 3D model of Nodamura. This virus primarily affects insects and fish and is an RNA genome virus.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fever!
This video describes the role of the brain in regulating body temperature and how sometimes fever is employed to fight off infection.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Vaccine Information on Influenza
Site is about the vaccine for influenza, how it works, why it must be taken every year, when to get it, and who should get the vaccine. Also contains links to more information about influenza.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Covid 19 & Health Equity, High School Science
This unit is designed to support students in understanding the COVID-19 pandemic, transmission of the COVID-19 virus, and the impacts of the pandemic on communities, especially communities of color.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Covid 19 & Health Equity
This unit explores how different communities are differentially impacted by the virus through the lens of historical inequities in society. I
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs Science Learning: Understanding Ebola Virus Disease
This resource features an Ebola virus interactive model that allows you to explore factors that either contribute to the spread of the virus or work to contain its spread.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: History of Vaccines
Illustrated overview of the history of vaccines and inoculations against diseases, such as smallpox and polio.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Evolution From a Virus's View
This page is a brief tutorial on viral evolution which focuses on the evolutionary pressures that balance transmission and virulence. There are additional sections with further recommended reading, resources for teachers, and a brief...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What We Know (And Don't Know) About Ebola
Alex Gendler details what Ebola is and why it's so hard to study. [4:01]
PBS
Pbs: Nova Virtual Labs: Virus Wars
Learn about viruses through short animations, informational text, and interactive questions in this virtual lab.
Other
Baby Center: Colds
This Baby Center site answers common questions a mother/father might have if her/his child gets the common cold. Includes special links.
Curated OER
Kids Health: A Kids Guide to Fever
Get the facts on what causes a fever and how you get rid of it in this article written for kids.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Tracking a Virus
Students simulate the spread of a virus such as HIV through a population by "sharing" (but not drinking) the water in a plastic cup with several classmates. Although invisible, the water in a few of the cups will already be tainted with...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
Facts about hand, foot, and mouth disease: what it is, how it is spread, how to prevent and treat it, and what the risks are.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Covid 19 Infection Spread Basic
This model explores the spread of an airborne respiratory illness like COVID-19, through a community, based on various social interactions and remediation measures.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Covid 19 Spread Across a Community
This model explores the spread of an airborne respiratory illness like COVID-19, through a community, based on various social interactions and remediation measures.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Biology of Zika Virus
Learn about the basic biology, origins, life cycle, and symptoms of Zika virus.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Virus Which Affects Mouse Muscles
Prepare for the MCAT by reading this passage and answering questions based on the given table about how different viral doses affect behavioral or electrical abnormalities in mice.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.53 Pathogen
Understand how pathogens cause infections in humans.