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Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Health Community Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use these resources and create a project identifying an issue with the health of people in the community and working out actions that could be taken to reduce the problem.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Understanding Your Water: From Source to Tap and Back Again

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will learn about water treatment and what happens to water when it goes down a toilet and drains into sewers. Through further investigation students will understand the relationship between water treatment and...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Inside Opioid Addiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the nationwide opioid crisis, its devastating impact on communities and families, and how agencies and individuals are pulling together to respond to this overwhelming public health crisis. Students write a final essay about...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Trade Secrets: Classroom Content: Lesson 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Trade Secrets reveals how the public's right to know the truth about the thousands of chemicals that surround us has been compromised. This lesson focuses on the processes of designing and interpreting results from health-related studies.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Motherland: Lesson Plan: Family Planning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Engaging youth in discussions about family planning is difficult for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the general discomfort adolescents have talking with adults about sex. Sometimes it can be easier to talk about...
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Primary
PBS

Pbs: An Apology 65 Years Late

For Students 9th - 10th
An article covering former President Clinton's apology to the survivors and family members of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Dated May 16, 2007.
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Handout
University of Virginia

U of Virginia: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

For Students 9th - 10th
Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were never told that they had syphilis. Instead, the doctors and scientists said they had "bad blood." Find out what took place during this study, and the social and political consequences...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Virus Information and Prevention

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What are viruses and how do they spread? Find resources for students of all ages that explore the nature of viruses, how they are transmitted, and the healthy habits we can all engage in to prevent their spread. From the common cold to...
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Activity
Other

Unicef: Voices of Youth

For Students 9th - 10th
UNICEF's youth section provides information on how to help this famous non-profit with its mission, a forum, real-life stories from people in less-developed countries, educational games and "what do you think" questions, and materials to...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Trade Secrets: Classroom Content

For Students 9th - 10th
Trade Secrets reveals how the public's right to know the truth about the thousands of chemicals that surround us has been compromised. The classroom resources offered here are designed to help you use this module, other material on the...
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Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Browse and Search Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site shares a collection of expert and peer-vetted teacher resources that are searchable for teachers and students. Searching can be achieved via a subject, grade, audience, and/or type. Curricula standards for the following subjets...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Do We Really Need Pesticides?

For Students 9th - 10th
Annually, we shower over 5 billion pounds of pesticides across the Earth to control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply. But is it worth it, knowing what we do about the associated...
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Lesson Plan
Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Air, Natural Resources, and You

For Students 6th - 8th
Students will analyze data from an air pollution study as well as facts about air pollution and use the data as evidence to infer the effect of using natural resources on the atmosphere and on public health.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed

For Students 9th - 10th
Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time....
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Test and Treat Before You Drink

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about water quality testing and basic water treatment processes and technology options. Biological, physical and chemical treatment processes are addressed, as well as physical and biological water quality testing,...