Is understanding the p53 gene the key to kicking cancer? Introduce a most-important protein through a presentation with colorful diagrams, simulations, and brief lectures. Viewers discover how p53 works, the cellular processes it...

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

Assist your secondary special education class for understanding risky behavior, hygiene, and STDs. The class discusses how germs spread, how people get sick, and what needs to be done to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. They...

An outbreak of malaria requires your help to stop its spread. To discover the pathogen that causes malaria and multiple ways to fight the illness scholars play games, answer short quizzes, and learn scientific concepts with the fourth...

Explore the difference between a dietician and a nutritionist and then examine how these professionals serve the community. A PowerPoint presentation and accompanying worksheet are provided to teach this career exploration material. A...

Students in this workshop strive to be reflective listeners as Master Teachers. They focus on communication skills necessary to deal with common family problems and community problems.

There are many, many reasons why people do not maintain an energy balance. Talk to your young learners about balance, what gets in the way of eating healthy, and things that get in the way of doing physical activity. Some obstacles may...

Young scholars investigate drugs by identifying which ones are illegal and potentially harmful.  For this medicine lesson, students complete worksheets in which they role play situations where they have found or ingested drugs and...

Fifth graders journey through Microworld where they and their partner create a report on the symptons of their friend's disease, the cause of disease (virus or baceterium), the scientific name for the disease and how the disease is...

Students create a dialog for calling in sick to work. Dialogs must be created for single and multiple absences. Working with a partner, students practice their dialogs. This lesson is designed for students acquiring English.

Students role-play real-life survivors in a panel discussion. They read a mini-biography about a survivor.