Sleep is an important a part of your health and energy?it ranks …
Sleep is an important a part of your health and energy?it ranks right up there with diet and exercise. Sleep gives you the energy to play video games and basketball, and to study. Even if you could study for 9 hours straight without getting tired, you?ll remember what you studied more if you sleep after studying. While you sleep, your body stores memories. And not sleeping enough can make you clumsy?that?s no good while you?re on the court. While you sleep, your brain releases the hormones that control your growth. If you don?t sleep enough, you may be tired, cranky, klutzy, and forgetful. While scientists are a little baffled about why all this recharging can happen only when we sleep, they all agree that we do need to sleep. This resource tests student knowledge of the importance of sleep.
This resource contains thirty-nine videos from former smokers. The videos contain former …
This resource contains thirty-nine videos from former smokers. The videos contain former smokers and their own stories of how smoking has affected their lives through diseases such as Asthma, Buerger's Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, COPD, Heart Disease, and Stroke.
This resource provides results based on the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey …
This resource provides results based on the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey concerning health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States.
This resource discusses why school violence is a public health problem, how …
This resource discusses why school violence is a public health problem, how school violence affects health, who is at risk for school violence, and how school violence can be prevented.
In this lesson, students will describe what infectious diseases are and how …
In this lesson, students will describe what infectious diseases are and how they spread. They will also describe the interaction and interdependence of agent, host, and environment (the Epidemiologic Triangle) and apply this concept to diseases.
This article provides information to help students understand how to recognize the …
This article provides information to help students understand how to recognize the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke and what to do when signs occur.
In this lesson, students will work to develop a prevention plan for …
In this lesson, students will work to develop a prevention plan for an American Indian reservation that is experiencing a new occurrence of West Nile virus infection, while taking into consideration the cultural and environmental implications relevant to this population. To successfully complete these activities, the students should have some knowledge of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and gel electrophoresis.
This lesson serves as an extension of a unit on waves that …
This lesson serves as an extension of a unit on waves that links the science of sound to the way that we hear. This lesson also investigates the role of hearing loss prevention as a way to improve public health. Students will wear earplugs while taking notes on vocabulary words, and then take a short vocabulary quiz as an exercise designed to show what it might be like to have hearing loss. Next, each student will generate a model of the process of hearing, and then complete a short group presentation on one of several hearing-related topics.
Students will describe how mistakes about that they think is going on …
Students will describe how mistakes about that they think is going on around them can affect their decision-making, identify the importance of sticking to their own beliefs about making good decisions for themselves, and recognize that many of their peers share the same beliefs about making good decisions.
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that can …
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Unlike some other viruses, the human body cannot get rid of HIV. That means that once you have HIV, you have it for life. This article provides information on what HIV is, where it came from, and the stages of HIV.
This lesson focuses on the transmission of diseases between animals and humans. …
This lesson focuses on the transmission of diseases between animals and humans. Ringworm and roundworm will be used as examples of zoonoses (infectious diseases that are transmitted to humans by animals). Students will be assigned specific roles within a group and complete research to identify the organism causing disease, how the disease presents in humans, treatment, and presentation strategies. Through an interview style presentation, students will communicate what they have learned with the class.
In this lesson, students conduct an experiment that demonstrates what goes into …
In this lesson, students conduct an experiment that demonstrates what goes into a person?s lungs with each puff of a cigarette. Then, students will view an interactive Web animation that gives a 360-degree view of the organs in the human body and an explanation of how tobacco use affects each organ. --- ENGAGEMENT OPTION 2 IN THE LESSON
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