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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Soccer
Here you can learn all about the sport of soccer! Find out what kind of equipment you'll need to get started, how to play it safe, fun facts, and some tips to get you moving!
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam!: Bully Roundup
This interactive, board game style activity tests kids' knowledge of bullying and how to avoid becoming a bully and being bullied. It also offers many tips to make students more bully aware.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Snow Skiing
Learn all about skiing at this great site! Find out what's the right equipment to use, how to stay warm on the slopes, how to play it safe, and some tips to get you started!
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Immune Platoon
This site gives a comic book style description of the immune system and the "super powers" it uses to fight infections and other diseases. The site ends with the "case files" of several diseases in their disease database.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Football
Here you can find some great information about the sport of football! Learn what kind of equipment you'll need to get started, how to play it safe, some basic football moves throwing a ball, catching a ball, etc.), and some fun facts!
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Safety: Safety Smarts
Tip cards suitable for printing teach how kids can stay safe in different contexts, such as at home, on the Internet, and when doing sports. There is even a quiz kids can take on safety concepts. Submitting the completed quiz gives kids...
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Centers for Disease Control: Fruit and Veggies Matter
Learners explore fruits and vegetables. The activity includes a questionnaire that asks an individual's age, sex, and level of physical activity to determine the fruits and vegetables needed in an individual's diet. The resource consists...
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Grind Your Mind
This colorful site begins with an interactive quiz about peer pressure and then gives a lot of information on what peer pressure is and how to make smart choices.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam!: Got Butterflies? Find Out Why
This interactive resource delves deeply into the symptoms of stress, the difference between long and short term stress, and methods for stress management.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Safety: Play It Safe
Choose from a large collection of sports activities, from baseball, to snorkeling, to yoga, to find out how to stay safe while participating. In addition, find out more about each sport-what equipment is needed, how to play, what parts...
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Centers for Disease Control: Healthy Pets Healthy People: Salmonella Infection
Learn what Salmonella is and how it can be transmitted to people from pets, poultry, rodents, and farm animals. Covers prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and provides numerous resources for further research.
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Centers for Disease Control: Obesity and Overweight Introduction
The CDC provides a collection of information on obesity and the concerns that come with it.
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Centers for Disease Control: Home Safety
Tips for preventing child injuries in the home such as burns, drownings, falls, and poisonings. Links to related podcasts.
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Centers for Disease Control: Tetanus [Pdf]
This detailed article from the Centers for Disease Control on tetanus has information on the incubation period, symptoms, complications, and treatment. Included are charts showing the decline of tetanus cases in the United States as well...
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Centers for Disease Control: Youth Health Risk Behaviors
This site from the CDC provides research results on health risk behaviors in the United States compared by race and ethnicity. Covers over twenty risk behaviors. Gives information in summaries, table sand charts.
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Centers for Disease Control: Fast Stats a to Z: Hypertension
Statistical data provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This site offers US figures on hypertension, its prevalence and who it generally affects. Other data can be downloaded.
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Centers for Disease Control: Compendium of Rabies Prevention & Control
This site from the Centers for Disease Control provides information about the rabies vaccine and immune globulin. It gives some background information on rabies, but mainly focuses on the vaccine, what it is comprised of, who should...
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Centers for Disease Control: Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates
Detailed presentation of research conducted about the disparities between racial and ethnic mortality rates. Many tables and charts are provided to illustrate the results of the research. Good discussion on the reason why such...
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Centers for Disease Control: Public Health, 1900 1999 Motor Vehicle Safety
Read about the reduction in vehicle-related deaths and the safety measures that made traveling safer. This article includes some information on the Highway Safety Act and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Acts, through which...
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Centers for Disease Control: Protect Your Family From Rabies
Information on rabies offers precautions to take to protect yourself, your family, and your pets from it.
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Centers for Disease Control: Atsdr: Tox Fa Qs? For Polychlorinated Biphenyls (Pc Bs)
Solid background information on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Presented in a question and answer format. This site answers questions like what are PCB's, what happens to them when they enter the environment etc.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Ebola [Pdf]
A fact card on Ebola hemorrhagic fever explains where this disease occur and the symptoms.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: E. Coli [Pdf]
Fact card on E. coli, a bacterium that causes severe intestinal illness, explains where E. coli can be found and how to protect yourself from contracting it.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Lyme Disease [Pdf]
A fact card on Lyme disease and the deer tick that carries it.