Students play a game of tag and reinforce their understanding of the immune system.

In this health and fitness worksheet, students keep a detailed log on this blank chart. Students record all their fitness activities for a week and indicate if they are aerobic or anaerobic.

In this heart health crossword, students locate 14 words to solve clues and place them in the puzzle. Although this appears to be part of a heart health adult presentation, older students could benefit.

In this nutrition worksheet, students keep track of all snacks eaten for a three day period. Students record the name of the snack, nutritional information, where and when it was eaten, and a rating by the student.

In this heart muscle worksheet, students analyze two pictures of people in action. Students label the pictures with "contracting muscle" or "relaxing muscle". Students study two more pictures of muscle movement and label each one...

Website dedicated to exploring controversial social issues presents research, video and commentary on the arguments for and against vaccinating children in the U.S.

This fact filled site provide key information about the H1N1 flu vaccine.

The Department of Defense provides detailed information about anthrax, including a focus on the anthrax threat of 2001. Content includes a current "situation report," as well as information on the anthrax vaccine.

Examine how vaccines generate immune responses against pathogens in the body by creating six vaccines in this virtual laboratory.

Here's some virtual hands on experience for students. There are many types of vaccines and students may have a hard time understanding the processes. This interactive site requires the student to go through each procedure to make a type...

This article describes the history of vaccines, how they work, and how they are made. Includes a list of references, a glossary, and links to activities.

The FDA provides a brief description of flu symptoms, an overview of the high-risk groups that ought to get yearly flu vaccines, and links to articles and statistics on flu vaccines from the year 2000 to now.

This site talks about who should get the vaccine for meningitis, what possible reactions there are, where to get the vaccine and even cost.

An animation showing the steps in creating a vaccine and preparing it for distribution.

The purpose of this lesson is to relate the action of vaccines to the human immune system. In this lesson, students will explore infectious disease and immunity and learn how vaccines help the body defend itself against infectious diseases.

Lesson plan has students brainstorming about various topics related to disease prevention and the use of vaccines.

CDC provides HPV vaccine questions and answers for young females and for their parents.

Charts and graphs showing the history of recommended vaccinations in the United States from 1945 to the present.

Information about chicken pox, including vaccinations.

This site provides biographical information on Baruch S. Blumberg, inventor of the Hepatitis B vaccine.

An accessible resource for understanding all you can about the Human Papillomavirus. Modules include disease and vaccination questions and answers, videos, case histories, recommendations and references to other helpful resources.

Use this site to access more than 200 health education brochures in a wide variety of languages. Many of the brochures are downloadable PDF files but some information is also available as sound or video recordings.

The Why Files have provided a wonderful site examining the possible AIDS vaccines being developed. Several topics are discussed, including topics about the chemical makeup of the virus itself.

This factsheet tells you what pneumonia is, the symptoms of it, how to prevent from getting it, who should get the vaccine, and over ten facts about pneumonia.