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Health and Physical Education
Disease, Illness, and Disabliity (11)
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Bubonic PlagueIn this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn about bubonic plague and how city officials in San Francisco tried to contain its spread in the early 1900s. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Can Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist?Learn about one town's conflict over the issue of spraying pesticides to combat disease-carrying insects, in this video segment from Greater Boston. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Can We Slow Aging?In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, scientists discuss a family of genes called FOXO that can significantly extend life span in worms—and in humans. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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Chemical Risks to a FetusLearn about the risks environmental contaminants pose for a developing fetus, in this video adapted from Contaminated Without Consent. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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Choosing Foods for Your HealthThis resource includes two video segments adapted from Living With MyType2 and features diabetic teenagers Misty and Tim explaining how they carefully choose the foods they eat. Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
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Contaminants in the Arctic Human Population In this video segment adapted from LOKE Films and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, learn how human populations in the Arctic are affected by industrial contaminants in the food chain.
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5-12 |
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Contaminating the RockiesLearn how abandoned mines have been contaminating water supplies in the Rocky Mountains for decades in this video segment adapted from NOVA: "Poison in the Rockies." Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Did Environmental Exposure Cause a Disease Cluster?This video segment from Greater Boston examines whether environmental toxins may be to blame for a rare skin disease. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Don't Mess with MercuryLearn about the dangers of mercury in this short video from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
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Eating Healthy FoodsIn this video adapted from Media That Matters, students explain how healthy foods help your body and processed foods can harm it. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
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The Effects of Childhood Lead PoisoningLearn about the long-term consequences of childhood lead poisoning and how to avoid them, in this video adapted from Lead Awareness for Parents by the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste LandfillThis video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: “Toxic Racism” talks about the early days of the environmental justice movement and how the health of minority communities can be compromised by the disproportionate numbers of hazardous waste facilities located there. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Environmental Justice in DallasFollow a Dallas community's fight to receive federal Superfund status to clean up the damage from a high-polluting lead smelter, in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Eradicating Malaria with DDTLearn about the role of the controversial chemical DDT in the worldwide malaria eradication program, and hear from an expert who advocates bringing it back, in this video segment adapted from Rx for Survival. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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Factory Farms and Organic AlternativesIn this video adapted from the series Race to Save the Planet, learn how agricultural pesticides can help increase the amount of food produced, but can also damage soil and wildlife in the process. See how organic farming addresses some of these challenges. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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A Family DiseaseThis video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explores the implications of genetic testing for breast cancer. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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Farm Nitrates in the Water SupplyLearn how nitrate runoff from farm fertilizers can negatively impact human health and how a water treatment plant is tackling the challenge, in this video excerpted from Big River. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Fever!This video describes the role of the brain in regulating body temperature and how sometimes fever is employed to fight off infection. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption |
6-8 |
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Finding Cures Is HardThis video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explains the difficulty of curing genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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Finding Disease GenesThis video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explains the process of finding genes that cause disease. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
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