Other
Biology Guide: Pathogens and Disease
Students learn about pathogens and disease. Some topics explored in the tutorial are bacteria, parasites, gene technology, and non-communicable diseases.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: A Z Index for Diseases and Conditions
For health information at your fingertips, this A to Z list of diseases and conditions links to information on specific illnesses.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Disease Process
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will study how your body is designed to fight off disease causing agents and what happens inside your body when you are actually sick. Additionally, you will learn how to organize...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Simulating the Bug
Students modify a provided App Inventor code to design their own diseases. This serves as the evolution step in the software/systems design process. The activity is essentially a mini design cycle in which students are challenged to...
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Problem Set
This problem set is designed to increase students' knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). It identifies the most common contemporary sexually transmitted diseases and describes their symptoms, modes of transmission, and...
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Infectious Diseases: Modern Medicines
An interactive, self-guided lesson on how medicine prevents and cures disease. This lesson has many descriptive animations as well diagrams to help with understanding. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (St Ds)
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) provides a collection of links to a variety of sexually transmitted diseases. Content focuses on bacterial infections (such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and chancroid), STD prevention, and...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Infectious Disease
Investigate the spread of infectious diseases from whites to Native Americans during the westward expansion of the 1800s, and compare cholera to Ebola and other infectious diseases.
New York State Dept. of Health
New York State: Communicable Disease Fact Sheet: Typhoid Fever
A brief review of this disease and it's symptoms.
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease: The Common Cold
A fact sheet about the common cold. Contains information on the causes of colds along with symptoms, prevention, and treatments of the common cold.
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Medmyst: Reloaded: Animal Alert
In this online adventure game, players learn about a mysterious disease that is affecting people in a distant tropical region. Players can choose to role-play as an epidemiologist, microbiologist, or veterinarian to solve infectious...
The College of Physicians
The History of Vaccines: The Scientific Method in Vaccine History [Pdf]
The purpose of this lesson is to familiarize young scholars with the history of vaccination and the use of the scientific method in the development of vaccines and the study of infectious disease. In this lesson, students will explore...
Other
Canadian Lung Association: Tuberculosis
Provides information about the infectious disease Tuberculosis. Click on the pulldown menu beside the word 'Tuberculosis' to access additional information.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Infectious Disease
Kids learn about infectious diseases including pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi as well as transmission and other types of diseases.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Infectious Diseases
A self-paced lesson on infectious diseases including bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections. Each disease featured discusses symptoms and treatment.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Disease
Do you the factors that cause a disease to spread? In this simulation, figure out how to counter the spread of diseases!
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.55 Infectious Diseases
Learn about infectious diseases in the human body.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Brain Eater
Examine the complex relationships among science, public policy and public health, research a disease that poses a public health threat and develop a strategy for limiting the spread of the disease.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Infectious Diseases: Self Check Quiz
A five question multiple-choice quiz over infectious diseases. After answers are submitted, students have the opportunity to review the missed questions.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Diabetes: Research Projects
This site investigates current projects about diabetes that are being researched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
PBS
Pbs Nova Teachers: The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Classroom Activity
Test the efficacy of different types of hand hygiene to stem the transmission of diseases by conducting an experiment using variables and a control group.
Other
Disease Detectives: Microbe Gallery
Learn in-depth details about microbes that cause disease: what is it, how to avoid it, the symptoms, and how it causes infections.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Changing Planet: Infectious Diseases Classroom Activity
Students will be introduced to the topic of infectious diseases in this lesson plan. While learning about how infectious diseases spread, they will learn how climate change is affecting the impact of these diseases. Includes printable...
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Transferring Diseases by Mosquitoes
Discover how mosquitoes affect human health and why they are such good carriers of disease.