Teacher Resources:
Lesson Plans and Activities

Health Career Focus: All
Students will draw a human body including body organs, recalling as many facts as they can about each organ/system. pdf

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/pdf/healthcareers/healthcareers.pdf
Students will identify several health professions and choose one to explore further.

Pharmacy
“Medicine and Mathematics” pdf
The purpose of this activity is to inform learners of the importance of accurate math related measurements through the use of pharmacology applications. The primary areas of integration are mathematics and health education.

Pharmacy Phun Student Worksheet pdf
Students will learn the meaning of common prescription abbreviations.

Radiology
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/brokenbones/
Students learn about injuries and the healing process of broken bones.

Medicine and Nursing
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/activities/
Students will review various computer lessons and read about physicians who made a difference in the situations described.

Family Practice Physician
Make a timeline of the educational journey of a family practice physician.  pdf.

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/pdf/digestion/digestion.pdf
Students will research a common problem of the digestive system.

Public Health
http://school.discovery.com/curriculumcenter/bacteria/pdf/activity2.pdf
Students conduct an experiment to test the effectiveness of antibacterial soap.
http://school.discovery.com/curriculumcenter/viruses/pdf/peakinterest.pdf
Background information on viruses.
http://school.discovery.com/curriculumcenter/viruses/pdf/activity2.pdf
Students will participate in spreading a mock virus and then tracing how the virus was spread.