ProCon.org
Pro Con: Vaccines: Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?
Website dedicated to exploring controversial social issues presents research, video and commentary on the arguments for and against vaccinating children in the U.S.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Control of Viruses
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find out the details of how scientists have found methods to control the spread of viruses.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
This article on children and whooping cough is organized into the following sections: "Pertussis (Whooping Cough)," "Prevention, When to Call Your Child's Doctor, and Professional Treatment," and "Home Treatment." Learn what makes the...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905 Presentation Speech
This site from the Nobel e-Museum contains a speech, originally given in 1905, in which Count K.A.H. Morner praises Robert Koch for his contribution to the world of medicine and awards Koch with the Nobel Prize.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Emile Adolf Behring Biographical
The Nobel E-Museum offers several lengthy paragraphs on Emil von Behring. Includes links to sections on his Nobel Prize presentation speech and on commemorative stamps in his honor.
Other
Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination
A site with a brief biography of Edward Jenner, with a lot of links to old books and papers of his that document his experiments in vaccinations.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fighting Back!
This lesson describes the major components and functions of the immune system and the role of engineers in keeping the body healthy (e.g., vaccinations and antibiotics, among other things). This lesson also discusses how an astronaut's...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Viral Hepatitis
Provides a brief definition, along with information about transmission and vaccinations, for each type of hepatitis.
Read Works
Read Works: Famous Scientists & Mathematicians Louis Pasteur
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains a short biography of Louis Pasteur and his development of pasteurization, a process that led to the development of vaccinations and safety procedures for many foods.This passage is...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Preventing Tb Using "4 I's"
Learn how to help prevent tuberculosis by using the "4I's" model: Intensive Case Findings, Isoniazid, Isolation, and Immunization.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Who Needs a Flu Shot
This resource provides information about influenza, the flu shot, and who should get one.
The College of Physicians
The History of Vaccines: Using the History of Vaccines in the Classroom [Pdf]
The purpose of this lesson is to offer suggestions on how to use the History of Vaccines website in a high school biology or health class. This lesson plan provides students with a broad overview of the website, while other lesson plans...
The College of Physicians
The History of Vaccines: How Vaccines Work [Pdf]
The purpose of this lesson plan is to relate the action of vaccines to the human immune system. In this lesson plan, young scholars will explore infectious disease and immunity and learn how vaccines help the body defend itself against...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Shots
Ouch! Shots hurt! Test knowledge of how shots keep us from getting sick.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.63 Immunity
Learn how vaccines create immunity against pathogenic infections.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Let's Stop Playing Politics With Vaccines
Let's stop playing politics with vaccines.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Jonas Salk
A biography of Jonas Salk, the man who saved thousands of lives by discovering a vaccine for polio. (In Spanish)
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.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Enough to Go Around
Why? Files article posted on November 21, 2002, introduces the brave new idea of edible vaccines.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Vaccines Work?
The first ever vaccine was created when Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, successfully injected small amounts of a cowpox virus into a young boy to protect him from the related (and deadly) smallpox virus. But how does...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Hiv and Flu the Vaccine Strategy
Seth Berkley explains how smart advances in vaccine design, production and distribution are bringing us closer than ever to eliminating a host of global threats- from AIDS to malaria to flu pandemics. [21:06]
WebMD
Medicine Net: Tetanus
This site from MedicineNet.com provide the reader with great information on the fatal disease of the nervous system known as tetanus. Links are provided throughout for additional information on related subject. The article is fairly...
PBS
A Science Odyssey: Alexander Fleming 1881 1955
This site details the life and scientific contributions of Alexander Fleming. Fleming is noted for his work with "Salvarsan," and penicillin for which he was knighted in 1944 and awarded a Nobel Prize in 1945. Link available to simulated...
PBS
Pbs: Jonas Salk (1914 1995)
A Science Odyssey biography of Jonas Salk from PBS, noted medical scientist who discovered the vaccine for polio. Easy to read format with link to "Paralyzing Polio," a colorfully animated and interactive comic strip. Links also...
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