Tenth graders examine the effects of the breakout of the West Nile Virus. They make predictions on its origin. They develop and present an action plan to stop the virus from spreading.

Ninth graders design a healthy city. They identify the essential elements of a city and describe how climate and geography can determine the layout of a city. They create a blueprint of their design and share in small groups.

Students communicate with Epals. They write letters with photo exchanges and create a website for presentations of 3,000 words or less and one photo. They tell their life stories and illustrate with photos in the target language. V

Tenth graders examine the history of the conservation movement and how it relates to contemporary issues.  For this Environmental Science lesson, 10th graders research the roots of the environmental and conservation movement and...

Pupils, as members of a team, are asked to prepare one meal to feed one person in a day. They analyze their meal and their daily menu for the nutritional content and explain this during an oral presentation.

Third graders, in groups, classify different activities as aerobic or anaerobic. They create posters displaying their categorizations and then take notes on each other's posters.

Students examine and discuss the painting, "Sleeping Self-Portrait," by Brian Murphy. They answer discussion questions, mix various paint colors, and create a self-portrait using the primary colors and white.

Students make deductions about life in an internment camp by reading and comparing letters written to Clara Breed. Along the way, they consider the advantages of looking at a historical event from the multiple points of view of...

Part of the National Institutes of Health, this site is dedicated to information about the Physical Therapist career.

A cross curricular project where students conduct a moot court to explore the role government policy plays in protecting our health. The focus of the unit is how our power effects our environmental health. Students use their knowledge of...

Exercise must be performed regularly throughout life to achieve the benefits of physical fitness, wellness, and disease prevention. In this self-guided unit, you will be introduced to the components of fitness, principles of exercise,...

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...

A cross curricular unit where students simulate an energy task meeting to discuss protecting human health through energy policies. The unit covers content for twelfth grade in math, physics, language arts, and government. Topics reviewed...

Read about this fast growing occupation, the educational requirements for assistants and aides, the employment prospects and the salary ranges.

Students are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...

A description of the Nazi use of poison gas to eliminate "undesirable" persons, whether because of their physical or mental health, or because of their religious or ethnic dispositions.

Research paper delivered at the Administrative Conference of the United States. Covers physical properties, specific types of noise pollution, and their effects. Very comprehensive, easy to use index format.

This unit of study contains three lessons, each with three experiences that may be taught together or individually. Each lesson will connect to science and/or math standards, along with a health standard or sports connection.

Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910 CE), the first woman doctor in the United States.

A brief introduction to units of radiation measurement.

An interdisciplinary unit teaching the topic of scientific research performed on human subjects for a skin cancer study. The physics principles behind imaging techniques, the biological implications of UV radiation on the skin, the...

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