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- AIDS in Africa Symposium
- Students will take on roles of those with a unique perspective on the AIDS crisis in Africa. Taking part in a symposium, each character, famous and ordinary, makes a statement and participates in a question-answer period.
- Author: Greg Mitchell
- Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
- Diseases throughout human history
- Students will trace the historical impact of disease on humankind and research key events in the history of disease.
- Author: Greg Mitchell
- Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
- Mapping HIV infection in Africa
- Using statistical information and maps, students will note the correlation between socio-economic factors and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the countries of Africa.
- Author: Greg Mitchell
- Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
- Wife inheritance and the AIDS epidemic in Africa
- When an African man dies, it is the responsibility of his brother to inherit his widow. This has become a key factor in the spread of the AIDS virus. This plan looks at this tradition and the AIDS epidemic in African countries and students will discuss possible solutions in a Paideia seminar.
- Author: Greg Mitchell
- Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
- Born for strokes
- In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about a recent study that suggests that malnutrition in the womb can come back to haunt you well into adulthood.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: Web resource
- Cancer risks
- In this Science NetLinks lesson, students describe environmental and hereditary factors that increase the chance of developing cancer.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
- A good laugh
- This Science NetLinks lesson, the second in a two-part series on laughter and how it can affect the immune system, explores various theories about laughter. Students also explore laughter's effects on our mental health and the benefits of laughter on the immune system.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
- How we laugh
- In this Science NetLinks lesson, the first of a two-part series on laughter and how it can affect the immune system, students explore gelotology, the science of laughter, and its benefits to our social, mental, and physical well-being.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
- Parasites and disease
- Students have probably heard about parasite-borne diseases, but they might not know the specifics of how these diseases are spread and how disease rates can be reduced. In this lesson, they'll research some parasite-borne diseases and report on how parasites infect their hosts and how people are trying to reduce infection rates.
- Provider: National Geographic
- Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)