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CURRICULUM, LESSON PLANS, & DVDs
Globalization & Health from the Levin Institute
  • Lots of globalization lesson plans and activities for your students

    Sick Around the World
  • Lesson plans & DVD from PBS Frontline (click on Teacher's Guide)
  • Excellent way for students to learn about healthcare systems around the globe.

    • Health Care Debate Lesson (click on Lesson Plan under Research & Analysis section)
  • This is an excellent Health Care Lesson Plan Guide that can be used for health care reform debate activity

    • Rx for Survival: The Heroes DVD
  • Wonderful DVD that gives students a look inside the global health campaigns that have saved countless lives in poor communities around the world.

    • Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge DVD (3PK)
  • Emmy nominated film examines the critical worldwide threats from old diseases and bizarre new ailments resistant to modern medicine.
  • The six-episode series profiles diseases such as Ebola fever, SARS, West Nile virus, HIV/AIDS, & avian flu.

    • A Science Odyssey - Matters of Life and Death
  • A wonderful documentary that tracks the passion and determination of medical science in the twentieth century.
  • Available at amazon.com (price varies-- usually around $20.00)

    • And the Band Played On DVD
  • History of how the AIDS virus was tracked and identified (good epidemiology film)
  • Can order this unforgettable film at amazon.com (price varies-- can usually buy this for $10.00 - $15.00)

    • Teaching Epidemiology
  • CDC's superb Excellence in Curriculum Innovation through Teaching Epidemiology and the Science of Public Health (EXCITE!).
  • Includes a collection of teaching and reference materials that introduce students to public health and epidemiology.

    • Global Envision
  • Lesson plans about the political, economic and social effects of disease, particularly the effects on developing countries.
  • Students learn about ways in which globalization has affected health around the world and about international public health officials' suggested responses to the spread of infectious disease.

    • NOW: Global Health
  • Global health lesson plans, which includes good resources.

    • NOVA Teachers: Cancer Warrior
  • This site includes a teacher’s guide, classroom activity, and related resources.
  • There is also a DVD for purchase ($19.95 for non-members)

    • Immune Attack!
  • Good site that will help students remember components of the immune system.
  • Includes game.

    • CDC Lessons: Virus Encounters
  • Multimedia curriculum on infectious diseases.

    • NIH Snapshots of Science & Medicine
  • Great resources for science teachers.
  • Good site for current research projects.

    • Teacher Connections
  • New York Times Learning Network (good site for expanding global perspectives)
  • Excellent lesson plans (arranged by subject area-- see Science and Health).

    • Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES)
  • Includes epidemiology teaching units for high school students, epidemiology resources, and YES competition information.

    • Koshland Science Museum
  • NIH Educational Lesson Plan
  • Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases - Protecting the Herd

    • Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance Lesson Plan
  • Students learn why evolution is at the heart of a world health threat.
  • Students investigate increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in menacing diseases such as tuberculosis & influenza.
  • Role-play activity as staff at a public health agency.

    • Guns, Germs and Steel lesson plans
  • Lesson plans are designed to accompany specific episodes in the three-part Guns, Germs & Steel PBS series
  • Multi-disciplinary lessons that integrate World History, geography, economics, current events, and life sciences





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