FOR K-12 SCIENCE STUDENTS

• Biology

• AGAINST THE ODDS: MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN GLOBAL HEALTH
  • How communities work to improve the quality of the Classroom resourced included.
• MedlinePlus
  • easy to read health information. An excellent source for all ages. Also available in Spanish
• Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory
  • Explores the scientific discoveries and contributions of Charles Darwin
• PubMed(r) /MEDLINE(r)
  • A Citation index for articles from medical and life science journals. View the PubMed tutorial for site navigation.
• Visible Human Project
  • Complete, automatically detailed, 3D representative of the normal male and female human bodies

• Chemistry

  • ChemIDplus(r)/Chemicals Page
    • View and manipulate chemical structures for more than 4000,000 chemicals. Creat cis and trans models, conduct structure similarity searches and view chemical synonyms.

• Environmental Health Science

• ToxMystery
  • Interactive site teaching elementary school students about toxic substances in the home. Includes lesson plans and activities. Also available in Spanish.

• Health Information Tutorials

• Evaluating Internet Health Information Tutorial
  • Learn how to evaluate health information found on the web. Middle School and up.
• Finding and Using Health Statistics
  • Course in health statistics. Also includes strategies for locating health statistics.
• Guide to health web surfing
  • what to look for when evaluating the quality of health information on the internet
• Understanding medical words
  • Tutorial for consumers on understanding medical terminology