This resource provides information to help students understand how to properly wash their hands to help prevent germs and sickness.
In this lesson, students will take part in a scientific investigation of a 1993 hantavirus outbreak and learn how to prevent hantavirus infection.
If you like recreational activities that involve wheels, concrete or asphalt, then protect your brain by wearing a helmet.
In this lesson, students will be engaged in activities to increase their understanding of modeling as a tool for public health preparedness. In the first portion of the lesson, students will obtain simulated patient samples and perform a test to determine if these patients are positive for a simulated rapid influenza diagnostic test. By using this information, students will interpret their results, considering false-positive and false-negative test results. As the lesson progresses, the scale of the outbreak scenario will increase, and students will use mathematical models to calculate the transmissibility of the virus and countermeasures that would be needed to limit the spread of influenza. Students will examine the herd immunity threshold of a population by determining the vaccine efficacy. Final questions will challenge the students to analyze the benefits, limitations, and applications of modeling for preparing and responding to future pandemics.
To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports initiative to offer information about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports. The Heads Up initiative provides important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion.
Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains more than 7000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic and about 70 can cause cancer. This article provides an overview of the serious health consequences brought on by secondhand smoke.
This article provides information on how to prevent heat exhaustion during athletic activities.
This video discusses how too much sodium is bad for your health and can increase your blood pressure and your risk for heart attack and stroke.
This article discusses the dangers of hookahs including hookah smoke and cancer.
This resource provides information on how much physical activity adults need to stay healthy.
The purpose of this activity is to allow students to summarize the types of physical activity that they have been engaged in, whether they are meeting personal goals, and whether they are meeting the recommended physical activity guidelines.
This presentation is a supplemental resource to be used in conjunction with the lesson "I Have a Gut Feeling." This lesson plan demonstrates how surveillance can be used by epidemiologists to identify and define an outbreak or public health problem. Students will gain a basic understanding of public health surveillance terminology, systems, and applications. They also will have an opportunity to apply their knowledge in analyzing data from a case study of an outbreak of Escherichia coli infections. At the end of the lesson, students should have a stronger understanding of public health surveillance and its application in monitoring and ending outbreaks.
Ready to Race? Answer TRUE or FALSE to each statement. For each answer you get right, you'll clear a hurdle on your way to the finish line. If you're wrong, you'll have a little trouble clearing the hurdle, but stay on track ? you can still finish the race! This interactive resource gives students the opportunity to see how well they understand the facts about staying healthy and physically active.
Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion. This resource provides effective measures that can help prevent injuries and deaths from alcohol-impaired driving.
This resource provides information on how foodborne diseases are an important public health problem in the United States. It includes incidence and trends related to foodborne diseases.
In this lesson, students are engaged in a demonstration of how germs are transmitted from person to person and also involved in an inquiry-based activity where they will observe bacterial growth. With these activities, they will determine the abundance and types of microbes that are found around them.
In this video students are urged to talk about HIV and learn about prevention.
In this activity, students will learn about John Snow, considered to be the father of epidemiology. They will learn how he used scientific methods to identify the environment in which cholera was spreading. By disrupting this environment, he ended the epidemic. Then students will learn more about modern-day “disease detectives,†deciding whether this would be a possible career for them to pursue.
It's tough to stay alert in classes all day, do stuff after school, see your friends, and get through all your homework at night. Who has time to add physical activity to this list? It?s a weird but true fact: being active actually helps you feel more awake and have the energy to do all the things you want to do every day. Activity helps you feel better, stay alert, and deal with stress. Plus, it helps you sleep better?so you?ve tackled two parts of the energy equation at once. This resource allows students to check their knowledge on physical activity and nutrition.
This interactive resource provides students the opportunity to give characters advice when faced with stressful or pressured situations.