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- National Institute of Environmental Health
- Tour the National institute of Environmental Health campus in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and learn about environmental health as well as career options for those who are interested in going into the field of biomedical research.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Two paths to knowledge
- For students who who always finish their class work early or want more information than you have time to give, try curriculum compacting.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- Good medicine
- Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Leslie Ramsey.
- Midwives and herbal medicine
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.3
- Excerpts from the medicine recipe book of Rachel Allen, who lived near Snow Camp, North Carolina, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, show how residents of the backcountry treated wounds, illness, and disease.
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
Resources on the web
- Breath of Life
- An exhibit that provides information on the history of asthma treatment, current research, and managing this disease as well as personal accounts and video clips from celebrities and individuals about their struggles with asthma. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: National Library of Medicine
- What's Asthma All About?
- Watch this presentation to learn what happens during an asthma attack and ways to treat asthma. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Neomedicus
- School bus fumes
- In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about how the exhaust from a school bus affects the bus passengers. (Learn more)
- Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- National Center for Health Statistics
- This website is a collection of national health statistics that represent the health of the American people. This clearinghouse of data serves to drive national public health policy. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- EPA High School Environmental Center
- A resource page that provides a great deal of useful information for high school students studying or wishing to learn more about the environment and what they can do to help protect it. Major topics include air, waste and recycling, conservation, water, ecosystems,... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Environmental Protection Agency
