Fostering health care career exploration.

This website has PowerPoint slides and a curriculum to help students look at blood-related diseases.

This interactive, hands-on learning experience gives students the opportunity to become familiar with the fascinating field of hematology and the pathology of common blood disorders. Students will learn basic laboratory skills, such as making observations using a compound microscope, and see how scientists use these skills to diagnose diseases.

Students will also perform case study analysis of laboratory data and research the use of model organisms, an essential component of medical science today.

Lesson plans build on themes from the hematology documentary "Blood Detectives" and information from the consumer campaign Blood: The Vital Connection, and align with national education standards for science, technology, and life skills.

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Learn how medical imaging and radiation therapy allow us to see inside the human body and treat or diagnose illnesses.

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Teaching Tomorrow’s Disease Detectives: Science skills for the problem-based world. These activities are designed to help your students learn and practice skills, like disease detectives, that they can also apply to their daily lives.

Activities address five overarching themes in public health, including an introduction to epidemiology, public health surveillance, investigating an outbreak, preparedness and response, and careers and roles in public health.

Activities also focus on the development of five major skill sets, including scientific design, identifying trends, decision-making, implementing action plans, and collaborative performance.

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Studying past contagious diseases with a historical lens may be interesting for this generation of students. This website contains links and information on various epidemics and could be used in a social studies classroom. Here are some of the diseases highlighted:

• The Boston Smallpox Epidemic, 1721

• Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century

• The Great Plague of London, 1665

• "Pestilence" and the Printed Books of the Late 15th Century

• Spanish Influenza in North America, 1918-1919

• Syphilis, 1494-1923

• Tropical Diseases and the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904-1914

• Tuberculosis in Europe and North America, 1800-1922

• The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793

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This resource has ideas for incorporating healthcare into reading and writing assignments and has many lesson plans for writing assignments around health and healthcare issues.

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This website is all you need for a human body systems project “Crime Scene” edition. It has students trace a body on white paper (the crime scene) and then has cutouts of various bones and organs and has the students place them on the crime scene.

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Created and maintained by the American Federation of Teachers, these esson plans and handouts for various health care professions.

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