Many teenagers don't have adequate access to health and nutrition information beyond a quick Internet search. Guide them into health advocacy and proficiency with a lesson focused on MedlinePlus as a reliable source for health...

When kids enter school, they often bring home new illnesses. Decode their symptoms, and help them to take care of themselves, with a fact sheet about the common cold. It delineates the symptoms one would experience as well as the signs...

What happens when comic writing and hand-washing forces combine? A wealth of fun and creative writing, as well as an introduction to one of the most important healthy habits your youngsters should know, await you in a simple writing prompt.

Empower your pupils to be germ stoppers! The heart of these lessons lies in stopping the spread of germs and keeping clean hands in order to prevent cases like a respiratory infection. It includes a game to simulate how germs can...

Young scholars role-play taking care of each other. In this cancer lesson, students examine how to help someone who is sick. Young scholars discover that cancer is not contagious. Working in small groups, students role-play how to take...

After reading a public health article, high schoolers identify groups that are at risk from secondhand smoke and what benefits have come from reduction of smoking in public places. The article isn't accessible via the link, but can...

Middle school life science or health classes listen to an audio, visit websites, read different articles, and participate in a class-wide simulation about the spread of viruses. The lesson doesn't get into the mechanics of how viruses...

High schoolers explore the rules to food safety and how to keep foods from growing bacteria. In this food illness lesson plan students view a demonstration about bacteria complete a food safety test online.

Students investigate the immune system. In this immune system lesson, students explore the immune system through participating in a WebQuest. After completing the WebQuest, students create a video documentary or chart.

In this food borne illness worksheet, students are given a scenario about guests aboard a cruise ship that get violently ill after a buffet dinner. Students answer 6 questions about the situation, the problem and a possible solution to...

For this germs worksheet, students choose an illness from the KidsHealth.org website and complete a chart with the name of the illness, its cause, how it is contracted, its signs and symptoms, and how to treat it.

In this health worksheet, students match word cards with the pictures. The word cards describe various aches and pains, such as "I have a fever."

First graders looks at germs through a microscope and identify two that can make us sick. They compare their mouth before and after they brush their teeth and practice proper hand washing techniques. They study the impact of Edward...

Help your English learners name what's ailing them with this presentation about illnesses and injuries. From backaches to sunburns, to measles, the funny illustrations in these slides will help your class to identify the English words...

Ninth graders examine the issue of killer spiders in Sydney, Australia. In this Sydney history lesson students read an article and answer guided reading questions. Students complete a quiz with a partner on the information that they...

Learners explore biology by completing an illness worksheet. In this human germs instructional activity, students identify how germs are transferred from one body to another and the prevention methods that can be taken. Learners complete...

In this ESL worksheet, students complete a 100 question fill in the blank and matching online interactive exercise about health problems and sickness.

Students examine the causes and symptoms of food-borne illnesses and ways to prevent them.  In this nutrition lesson students work in teams to investigate a type of food-borne illness and present a scenario about it. 

Students explore common health issues.  In this health and literacy lesson, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations.  Students prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues are the...

In this phrasal verbs learning exercise, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about verbs related to illness. Examples: fight it off, swells up, black out.

Students identify reasons why people take medicines. In this medicine lesson plan, students are shown different medicines and discuss why people might take them. The teacher poses different scenarios about when it is safe and unsafe to...

Second graders identify symptoms of illness and how they can get better. In this health lesson plan, 2nd graders use Venn diagrams to categorize what the character of a story did to get well, and different types of symptoms.

In this ESL word scramble activity instructional activity, students practice their problem solving skills as they unscramble 12 illness names.

In this ESL healthcare activity activity, students respond to 8 illness questions using the word should in all of their answers.