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Growing cooties

This lesson teaches the importance of washing hands to reduce the spread of germs. In this lesson, students will see mold develop over time on a potato as the result of handling the potato with dirty hands.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Healthful Living)

By Ronda Odenwelder.

Millis Regional Health Education Center

Visitors are sure to have fun while they learn about the human body and how to stay healthy at this health education facility.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Women stand by platform preparing offerings for large cremation ceremony

Half a dozen women dressed in formal wrapped batik skirts, colorful jackets, and sashes stand by a veranda platform preparing offerings for a large cremation ceremony. The scene is viewed from behind the busy women. The women, working side by side, are operating...

Format: image/photograph

Disease and catastrophe

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.3

Of all the kinds of life exchanged when the Old and New Worlds met, lowly germs had the greatest impact. Europeans and later Africans brought smallpox and a host of other diseases with them to America, where those diseases killed as much as 90 percent of the native population of two continents. Europeans came away lucky -- with only a few tropical diseases from Africa and, probably, syphilis from the New World. In America, disease destoyed civilizations.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

The growth of tourism: Southern Pines

In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.10

Report on a trip by doctors to Southern Pines, North Carolina, suggesting that its healthful climate made it an excellent destination for urban tourists and people recovering from illnesses. Includes historical commentary.

Format: article

Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Reading guide: Spain and America

In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.2

These terms and questions will guide students as they read "Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest." Filling in the chronological list of dates will enable students to understand the order in which events unfolded in Spain and in America, and answering the questions will encourage students to think critically about the readings in the chapter.

Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

By Pauline S. Johnson.

The founding of Virginia

In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.1

England planted its first successful North American colony at Jamestown in 1607, but settlers fought Indians and disease, and the colony grew slowly. By the end of the seventeenth century, Virginia had established tobacco as its main crop, a representative government, and slavery as a dominant system of labor.

Format: article

By L. Maren Wood.

A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina

In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.8

A pamphlet produced in 1660s London at the request of the Lords Proprietors described the economic opportunity and religious freedom available to settlers in Carolina. Includes historical commentary.

Format: book

Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.

Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.1

In 1491, no European knew that North and South America existed. By 1550, Spain -- a small kingdom that had not even existed a century earlier -- controlled the better part of two continents and had become the most powerful nation in Europe. In half a century of brave exploration and brutal conquest, both Europe and America were changed forever.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

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Physical health

Students will engage in both online and hands on activities related to the topic of germs. Students will learn about some of the health habits that are essential for maintaining good health. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 )

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Germs and the body

Students explores germs, where they exist, and how they can affect the body. In studying bacteria, students will also learn preventative measures they can take to stay healthy. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Catching the bug for reading through interactive read-alouds

This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate to help students learn reading strategies and how to prevent the spread of germs in their classroom. Students... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Healthful Living)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Bioterror

A companion website to the Nova (PBS) program Bioterror includes the history of biowarfare, an excerpt from the book, Germs, interviews with scientists who created biological weapons, a global guide to bioweapons, and information... (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: PBS

Antibacterial pollution

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about the potential environmental effects of common household products. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Smelling diseases

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about how doctors are developing a kind of sniff test to screen for diseases. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6–8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science