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What is all the Fuss about?
Students brainstorm a list of science discoveries and inventions that they think are important. They work in small groups, students examine 1-3 science discoeries more closely. Each group needs a recorder, and they answer three...
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Inventor's Challenge Review
In this science learning exercise, students match each invention or device to its inventor listed on the right. There are 32 inventors listed and some may be used twice. Then they order the items in each group from oldest to newest and...
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Life Cycle - Human Biology
In this life cycle worksheet, 9th graders complete 3 different procedures that distinguish viruses and bacteria and inherited characteristics. First, they read the background excerpt given about bacteria and viruses. Then, students cut...
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GED: Vocabulary: Life Science
For this GED vocabulary worksheet, high schoolers complete a crossword puzzle given 10 clues about genetics and cloning, food chains, vaccines, the brain and the nervous system and organisms. Students are given a word bank to use to...
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Infectious Diseases: Hepatitis B and Tuberculosis
Young scholars discover the different sources of pathogens that cause diseases. In this health science lesson, students explore different ways to treat infections. They create a persuasive pamphlet on their position on vaccination.
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A Shot in the Dark?
Students ask and answer their own questions about smallpox and the smallpox vaccine. They create outlines for an informative CD-ROM that could be distributed to health care professionals.
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Immunization
students study contents and origin of vaccines. They should understand the relationship of the vaccine to primary and secondary immune responses of the body. They work in pairs and share the responsibility of writing responses to...
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Delve Into Diseases
Fifth graders research diseases that affect people all around the world and write about their research. In this diseases lesson plan, 5th graders answer questions about vaccines, facts, differences in diseases, and more.
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Fighting Back!
Fifth graders inspect the basic functions of the immune system and determine how viruses and bacteria invade the immune system. They also explore what happens to the immune system in outer space.
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Disease & Epidemics: Architects of History
Students explore disease and its relationship to history and literature. They investigate issues that range from early biological warfare and historical disease treatments, to observing today's race for the cure against current emerging...
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Benefits of Biotechnology
Various aspects about the impact of biotechnology in our everyday lives, and many examples of its application are given in these slides. Designed with multiple fonts, the style should be appealing to youth.
American Institute of Physics
Physicist Activist: Dr. Elmer Imes and the Civil Rights Case of Juliette Derricotte
Elmer Imes was not only a brilliant physicist but also a civil rights activist. After an introductory lecture, groups read two articles about a traffic accident that killed one Fisk University student and injured several others. The...
Ask A Biologist
Viral Attack
Can you catch the same cold twice? Elementary and middle schoolers learn about what happens when a virus attacks their bodies, and how the immune system never forgets a virus, with an entertaining comic book. The packet includes...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Understanding the Epidemiologic Triangle through Infectious Disease
Introduce infectious diseases and the epidemiologic triangle. A helpful resource describes the agent, host, and environment from the three vertices as well as the time factor, which is in the middle. Scholars complete a simple...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Virus Explorer
Most pupils know about the flu, HIV, and other viruses, but they don't know what each actually looks like. This interactive shows their relative size, structure, and allows for comparisons. It stresses the similarities and differences...
Cengage Learning
Pandemics: Past and Present
From outbreak to epidemic to pandemic. Calls for flattening the curve, social distancing, and face masks. A 12-slide presentation details pandemics and strategies for containment and mitigation of infectious diseases.
Cengage Learning
Infection Control and Standard Precautions
With the number of COVID-19 cases rising dramatically, information about how standard precautions can be used to control infection is essential. The 16 slides in a presentation outline of how people need to change their daily habits to...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Development of Disease and Infection
It's all in the cards. Using cards to simulate a disease's attack on the immune system, pupils develop an understanding of how the immune system and pathogens react to each other and why at times the pathogen wins. Groups play a game to...
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Your Immune System
In this immune system worksheet, students describe an antibody and how it functions. Then they determine sources of passive immunity and how HIV affects the immune system. Students also name defenses that the digestive system has against...
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The Great Race: From Anchorage to Nome
Students study the history of the Iditarod sled dog race. They research facts related to biology, sled dogs, and geography in order to put that history in perspective.
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Applied Evolution: How Will We Get There from Here?
Learners explore the basic process of natural selection and how people can manipulate that process today. The consequences of natural selection on daily life and the implications of evolutionary biology in basic and applied science is...
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Lesson Plan on HIV/AIDS
Students examine where, why, how and in what conditions HIV/AIDS exists. They examine the deadly impact this virus has had on the world and look at how to prevent the spread at home. The students also develop a greater awareness of the...
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Your Dog's Health
Students investigate pet health. In this dog care lesson plan, students develop knowledge on how to care for a dog. Students discuss what is needed to keep a dog happy and healthy. Students label pictures of of a dog's visit to the vet.
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Anthrax Scare
Students visit the website for the Center of Disease Control. They examine the anthrax page and read through the frequently asked questions. They discuss what needs to be known about the anthrax vaccine and how it is used as a weapon.
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