Curated OER
Coin Cards
In this U.S. coins worksheet, learners cut apart 16 cards that feature photographs of the front and back of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies. There are no directions.
Curated OER
Halloween Circles and Rectangles
In this Halloween circles and rectangles worksheet, students color all the circles they see on the page orange. Students color the rectangles black.
Other
Cook Children's Health Care System: Health Information: Conditions and Injuries
Large library of fact sheets about disease, medical conditions, and injuries, with explanations of symptoms, risk factors, treatments, prevention, and related information.
Other
Cook Children's Health Care System: Health Information: Videos and Animations
Collection of videos and animations that explain a variety of medical procedures, conditions, and treatments.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Democrats Push Through Historic, Controversial Health Care Bill
President Obama signed into law a historic health care bill; making the most dramatic changes to the American health care system in four decades. Follow the details of the bill, its history, and the controversy behind this historic bill,...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Fixing the Health Care System
This Online News Hour page provides an overview of President Barrack Obama's interests in health care reform. Links are also provided to five health care related stories in addition to class resources suitable for grades 7-12.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Publicly Funded Health Care
An overview of publicly funded healthcare systems, explaining how they are paid for, and the advantages and disadvantages.
Pew Research Center
Barriers to Health Care in Hispanic Communities
This National Program Report, updated 2008, discusses the difficulties that Hispanic Americans encounter when seeking and gaining access to the health care system.
National Institutes of Health
U.s. National Library of Medicine: Pub Med Online Training
Learn how to gain access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Price We Pay for Health: Us and Canada
This lesson plan focuses on the rising cost of healthcare in the United States. The objective of the lesson is to compare and contrast the health care systems in the United States and Canada.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Navigating Medicare's New Drug Benefit
In question and answer format, NPR takes a look at Medicare's new drug program and its effect on senior citizens. Links to numerous other NPR reports on this subject. 1/27/2006
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Addressing Health Mysteries
Describe the networks within the health care systems internationally, explore the impact of the SARS epidemic on world health and examine the effectiveness of the World Health Organization in communicable disease surveillance and response.
Other
Virginia Apgar Personal and Professional
This web page provides a detailed description of the APGAR newborn scoring system as well as links to photos and documents from the life and other work of Dr. Virginia Apgar. The site was created and maintained by Doctors Henry and Eric...
Other
Amos Web: A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy
Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Price We Pay for Health: Us and Canada
Learners will review the health systems of United States and Canada. They will identify the positive aspects of each system. They will look at the trade-offs associated with those positive aspects. In Canada, everyone has health care,...
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Virginia Apgar
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers a review of Ms. Apgar's life accomplishments including her most well known development of the Apgar Score system, which determines whether a newborn infant needs special attention to stay alive.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Mozambique: People
A look at the ethnic groups and religions of the people of Mozambique. There is a chart showing information about languages, health care, education, and work force. Information is from the CIA World Fact Book.
University of Pennsylvania
History and Sociology of Science: America's Golden Age of Medicine?
Examine the history of the Golden Age of Medicine in America from the 1930s through the 1960s. Use photographs, primary sources, essays, and the suggested questions to trace the advances made in drugs, technology, and the delivery of...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How State Budgets Are Breaking Us Schools
America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and are weighted with worsening...
Other
Ed Surge: Can Anyone Be an Inventor? Mit's Invention Education Officer Says Yes
This article is part of The EdSurge Podcast. Today, there are plenty of middle and high school students who have developed solutions to major economic and social challenges, ranging from health care and transportation to agriculture and...
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Homepage
The World Health Organization promotes physical, social, and mental well being all over the world. This site links you to all types of information and is very resourceful on a large variety of subjects.