Health
Jeopardy Health PowerPoint
Here's the Health Jeopardy game I demonstrated at the June staff meeting. I got the template from Kim Overstreet's page. Most of the clip art came from Purdue University's foreign language clip art page.
Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis
Here are some articles about the digestive system problems, diverticulitis and diverticulosis.
Medline- Diverticulitis and Diverticulosis
Interactive Patient tutorial on diverticulitis
"Easy to Read" article on diverticulitis
Project Shine: Health Initiative
Project Shine is a collaboration between colleges and community organizations to help elderly immigrants. College students tutor immigrants as part of service learning. MetLife funded the devolpment of several health units to support that effort. The manuals are online and are divided into Beginner and Intermediate.
High Blood Pressure
This week we are looking at high blood pressure. It's an important topic that effects you more as you get older. Here are some links to strat you out:
Marshall Education- Blood Pressure Check
Patient Institute- High Blood Presure
Medline- What is high blood pressure?
NIH- What is high blood pressure?
AAP- What can you do about high blood pressure?
American Hear Association- High Blood Pressure (follow the links on the left side of the page)
News about High Blood Pressure
Eat Healthy
What is healthy? Here are some pages to help you explore the question:
CDLP Governor Wants Children to Eat Healthy
Marshall Education Stories
Exploring Asthma & Allergies
We are going to explore allergies and asthma. Here are some links:
Asthma- National Library of Health
Allergies- Take the quiz at the end.
Asthma- Marshall Adult Education
Food Allergies- Marshall Adult Edcation
Asthma- Beehive
Learning About Allergies- Kidshealth
Allergies & Asthma- Kidshealth
What did you learn? Write me an e-mail at eslbruce@gmail.com
BAM: Body and Mind
BAM is a health website geared to pre-teens and teens. It has lots of good, interesting stories and activities about health.
Kids Health
Kids Health is designed for children but has good health information for anyone.
Diabetes Vocabulary
Here are some words from the VOA Special English articles on diabetes:
1. dietary
10. worldwide
11. urged
12. unexpected
13. spreading
Diabetes Crossword
Here's an HTML crossword on diabetes. Click on it and it should download and open in your browser.