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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
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
Forensic scientists: Identifying unknown substances
In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.10
In this lesson, students use the physical properties of three mystery substances to determine their identities. Students discuss how these skills apply to careers in forensic science.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
The growth of tourism: Warm Springs
In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.9
Advertisement for Warm Springs (now Hot Springs) in Madison County, North Carolina, from the late nineteenth century. Includes historical commentary about the region, tourism, and nineteenth-century medicine.
Format: pamphlet
Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
The tabasco water heater and hot water in Biltmore House
In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 7
Introduction to the boiler room Although this room is called the Boiler Room, a number of interesting features relating to various technologies can be seen here, including the elevator controller and modern DC generator. The platform and wire cage...
By Sue Clark McKendree.
Olaudah Equiano remembers West Africa
In Colonial North Carolina, page 4.4
Excerpt from a book written by a freed slave in the late eighteenth century, with memories of his boyhood in Guinea. Describes the government, culture, religion, architecture, and agriculture of the region. Primary source includes historical commentary.
Format: book
Commentary and sidebar notes by Shane Freeman.
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

American Association of Poison Control Centers
Facts about poisons and poison prevention, as well as the location and contact information for poison control centers (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: American Association of Poison Control Centers
Toxicology and living systems
This Science NetLinks lesson is part of a three-part series on toxicology, the scientific study of poisons and their affect on biological systems. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 Science)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Toxicology and human health
This Science NetLinks lesson is part of a three-part series on toxicology, the scientific study of poisons and their affect on biological systems. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Finding the toxic dose
This lesson is part of a three-part series on toxicology, the scientific study of poisons and their affect on biological systems. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science