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EduRef Lesson Plans:

* Health
Lesson plans written by education students and teachers and submitted to AskERIC for inclusion on our website.
http://eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Health

Archived Responses:

* Are heavy backpacks unsafe or harmful to students? Where can I find more information about the safe use of backpacks to carry school books?
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/Subjects/Health/backpacks.html

Internet Sites:

* Asthma
This site is intended for teaching children about asthma. The site contains several diagrams that show how the lungs work and what happens inside the lungs of someone who has asthma. It includes a picture of the respiratory system and animation of lungs breathing. Also allows visitors to hear how someone with asthma might sound.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~smb4v/tutorials/asthma/asthma1.html

* CHID Online, The Combined Health Information Database
“CHID is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources. CHID lists a wealth of health promotion and education materials and program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere”.
http://chid.nih.gov/index.html

* Fight BAC!
Includes resources for teaching about keeping food safe from bacteria. From the Partnership for Food Safety Education.
http://www.fightbac.org/main.cfm

* Healthy Teeth - Oral Health Education Database
This award-winning dental education site aimed at upper elementary students includes experiments and activities as well as a teacher's guide.
http://www.healthyteeth.org/

* KidsHealth
Includes resources for kids, teens, and parents provided by the Nemours Foundation.
http://www.kidshealth.org/

* Fight BAC!
Includes resources for teaching about keeping food safe from bacteria. From the Partnership for Food Safety Education.
http://www.fightbac.org/main.cfm

* Healthfinder
“Healthfinder is a gateway to selected consumer health and human services information resources provided by U.S. government agencies and other organizations serving the public interest.”
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

* HealthWeb
A collection of health-related Internet resources.
http://healthweb.org/

* MayoClinic.com
This site from the Mayo Clinic includes information on diseases & conditions, drugs, first aid & self care, and healthy living.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/index.cfm?

* Medical Health Science Libraries on the Web
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html

* National Center for Health Statistics
This site, from NCHS, the Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency, provides "data on vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care." Topics include: tobacco use, life expectancy and long-term illnesses. Also contains news releases and fact sheets providing information about the latest health research.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

* National Institutes of Health
"Founded in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the U.S."
http://www.nih.gov/

* National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

* Neuroscience for Kids
Neuroscience for Kids has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system. Enjoy the activities and experiments on your way to learning more about the brain and spinal cord.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

* PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine. “PubMed was designed to provide access to citations from biomedical literature. LinkOut provides access to full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources”.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

* RuralNet - The Marshall University School of Medicine Rural Health Resource
The Rural Health Care Network, is sponsored by the Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia. This forum will focus on discussions of delivery, improvement, technology deployment, education and outcomes-based research in rural health care.
http://ruralnet.marshall.edu/

* Virtual Hospital
"The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients.
http://www.vh.org/

* World Health Organization
Provides access to world health statistics, WHO press releases, full text of selected WHO publications and more.
http://www.who.int/

Organizations:

* The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
1900 Association Dr.
Reston, VA 20191-1598
Tel: 1-800-213-7193
http://www.aahperd.org/

This page is maintained by:
Barbara Barone, Reference Librarian
Buffalo State College