Health

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.

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 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.

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

Heart Attacks

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

Marshall Education- Strokes

What is healthy? Here are some pages to help you explore the question:

CDLP Governor Wants Children to Eat Healthy

Marshall Education Stories

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

Allergies

Asthma- Marshall Adult Education

Food Allergies- Marshall Adult Edcation

Asthma- Beehive

Learning About Allergies- Kidshealth

Allergies & Asthma- Kidshealth

Asthma

What did you learn? Write me an e-mail at eslbruce@gmail.com

BAM is a health website geared to pre-teens and teens. It has lots of good, interesting stories and activities about health.

Kids Health is designed for children but has good health information for anyone.

Here are some words from the VOA Special English articles on diabetes:

 1.    dietary

10.  worldwide

11.   urged

12. unexpected

13. spreading

Here's an HTML crossword on diabetes. Click on it and it should download and open in your browser.