In this lesson, students are drawn into post-Revolutionary Philadelphia during the midst of the infamous yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by reading Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Fever 1793. Use this novel as supplemental reading to assist students in developing their understanding of and interest in colonial times, while heightening their reading skills and ability for higher order thinking.

In this lesson, students will learn about flu virus, vaccination, and the possible effects of a flu pandemic. Through an interactive PowerPoint and Webquest, students learn about how the flu virus can change, spread, and, in certain cases, result in a pandemic. Students will also learn about flu surveillance. They will collect data about flu transmission and analyze data from two flu pandemics. As an extension, students can create a public service announcement(PSA) for the seasonal flu vaccination.

Looking for lichens is an activity that can be done almost anywhere. Students get to search for them in the playgrounds and schoolyards, and they can be used as an indicator of air quality.

In this lesson, students read an essay, "The Deadly Cycle," about HIV viral replication, learn the parts of a single HIV particle, and investigate the HIV replication cycle in a host cell.

This animation illustrates and describes what happens when a malaria-carrying mosquito bites a human host.

In this lesson, students will identify, analyze, and interpret patterns in data related to a public health emergency, investigate and plan a public health emergency response to a natural disaster, and determine ways to prepare for public health emergencies.

In this interactive game, students learn about a mysterious disease that is affecting people in a distant tropical region. Players can choose to work as an epidemiologist, microbiologist, or veterinarian to determine what is making people sick.

In this interactive game, students can choose to train with an epidemiologist, microbiologist, or veterinarian to learn how these experts work as a team to solve infectious disease outbreaks while using the scientific method. Each expert path has its own learning objectives and stresses different parts of the scientific method.

In this interactive game, students get an introduction to infectious diseases and pathogens.

In this interactive game, students learn about infectious pathogens and epidemiology while investigating a cholera outbreak.

In this interactive game, students learn about viruses and vaccines while investigating a smallpox case.

In this interactive game, students learn about malaria, the history of malaria research, and disease vectors.

In this interactive game, students learn about zoonotic pathogens and the diseases they cause, while trying to prevent a bioterror attack.

This resource allows students to explore fungi and the different uses for fungi and has an interactive quiz at the end.

This resource allows students to explore viruses and the effects of them and has an interactive quiz at the end.

Students will learn about different types of microbes and how to treat and prevent the diseases they cause. They will choose between bacteria, virus, prion or parasite.

This resource is a collection of information on different microbes. Students can choose a microbe and learn how it is contracted and how it can be avoided.

In this activity, students will learn how rapidly Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria reproduce. They will also see how environmental conditions such as temperature can affect the reproduction rate of E. coli. They will figure out how they might disrupt the environment that allows E. coli to reproduce, thus reducing the spread of infection.