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Advocates for Human Rights

The Rights of Women in the United States

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Six diverse activities make up a substantial unit on the women's rights movement in the United States, past and present. A few of the topics at hand: the fourteenth and nineteenth amendments, the Equal Pay Act, the Lily Ledbetter Act,...
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Columbus City Schools

Let’s Get Theoretical About Cells

For Teachers 6th Standards
Get up close and personal with cells in a hands-on journey to discover what makes up living things. Scholars learn valuable microscope skills, delve into the Modern Cell Theory, and gain insight into how cells reproduce. The included lab...
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Curated OER

The Science of Microbes

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Looking for an interesting text to share the world of microbes with your middle school classroom? The edition contains explanations, worksheets, experiments, discussions, and links to outside sources for a true and complete...
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Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute: Religious Freedom and the Affordable Healthcare Act

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Summary, resources, and activities addressing the constitutionality with regard to the first amendment which surfaced with the Affordable Healthcare Act.
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University of Minnesota

Univerity of Minnesota: Global Rem: Brain Drain: Healthcare Workers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource uses a map and newspaper articles to provide a broad overview of the contemporary 'brain drain' of healthcare workers. Its goal is to further understand the dynamics of contemporary migrations of healthcare workers and to...
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PBS

Pbs: Frontline: Compare Health Issues in Ecuador and the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
As a class watch a presentation about the issues facing health care in Ecuador. After viewing, have students discuss the differences between the United States and Ecuador's health care issues such as mortality rates, diseases, and ratio...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Jane Chen: A Warm Embrace That Saves Lives

For Students 9th - 10th
Jane Chen demonstrates how a life-saving invention called the embrace infant warmer, can lower infant mortality rates in countries without advanced health care. [4:47]
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Affordable Care Act

For Teachers 12th
A learning module on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include identifying who was not...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 3: Unit 6: La Salud

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students learn how to talk about illness, the body, and one's health, and compare health care facilities in Hispanic countries to those in the US. Includes games, exercises, modeled vocalization of words and...
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: History of Medicine

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, self-guided lesson on the history of medicine and the advancements in medical technology. An interactive, virtual timeline helps students visualize the historical events. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
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Other

Museum of Health Care: Death in a Glass

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can learn all about water pathogens in this online exhibit. They'll explore what kinds of micro-organisms infect water, how a water supply can get contaminated, how it is protected, and how officials investigate cases of...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:cyber War

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the extent to which the critical infrastructure of the U.S., including electrical power, finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, water, defense and the Internet, is vulnerable to cyber attack.
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Other

Vhi Healthcare: Blue Green Algae

For Students 9th - 10th
What is blue-green algae? Is blue-green algae nutritious? This site answers these questions as well as the use of algae in the treatment of diseases.
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C-SPAN

C Span Classroom: Teaching About King v. Burwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module with lesson plan in which students learn about the various for and against positions of the A.C.A. (Affordable Care Act) by watching C-SPAN videos and reading related articles, then participate in a classroom deliberation...
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C-SPAN

C Span Classroom Deliberations: Teaching About Medicaid

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module with lesson plan for teachers in which students learn about arguments from Democrats and Republicans, for and against the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Students use C-SPAN videos, read related articles and participate in...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How State Budgets Are Breaking Us Schools

For Students 9th - 10th
America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and are weighted with worsening...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Let's Simplify Legal Jargon

For Students 9th - 10th
Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign- and plain English- to make legal paperwork intelligible to...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: This Temporary Tattoo Helps Women Have Healthy Pregnancies

For Students 9th - 10th
Bioelectronics innovator Todd Coleman shares his quest to develop wearable, flexible electronic health monitoring patches that promise to revolutionize healthcare and make medicine less invasive. [9:39]
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Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Antenna: Nanotechnology: Small Science, Big Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of how nanotechnology can manipulate tiny particles and have applications in sports, clothing, foods, electronics, pollution control, alternative fuels, crime fighting, wars, and healthcare.
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Wonderville Media

Animal World/wonderville: Dogs

For Students K - 1st
Dogs have needs just like you. They need food, water, shelter, grooming, exercise, health care, and love. Learn more about dogs in this well-constructed overview by Wonderville.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Court Rejects New York City's Portion Cap for Sugary Drinks

For Students 7th - 8th
In 2014, Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, designed a proposal known as "the soda ban" that would put limits on the size of sugary drinks that people could buy. The proposal was favored among health advocates, including...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Providers: The Providers

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection features resources to accompany The Providers film. The Providers documentary exposes the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, The Providers follows three healthcare providers in northern New Mexico.
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Other

Inside Out: Doctors Without Borders

For Students 9th - 10th
Boston's NPR news source features Doctors Without Borders. Find information, notes, audio, and an interactive photographic tour.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Hope and Change

For Students 9th - 10th
In 2008, American voters, tired of war and dispirited by the economic downturn, elected a relative newcomer to the political scene who inspired them and made them believe that the United States could rise above political partisanship....

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