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In addition to Science Ambassador lesson plans, CDC has many other education resources on the Web.  These resources cover a variety of public health topics and offer a unique way of looking at public health science.  Resources to use with Elementary School Students Neato Mosquito is a curriculum guide designed to teach 4th grade students about mosquito biology and the prevention of La Crosse encephalitis.  Lessons include: Life History of the Mosquito, Mosquitoes Suck: Feeding on Flower Nectar and Blood, the Circle of Life: Mosquito Ecology, Mosquitoes and Disease, and Preventing La Crosse Encephalitis.  Click here to access the Neato Mosquito interactive lessons. Kid's Quest was created by CDC to get kids to think about people with disabilities and some of the issues related to participation in daily activities, health, and accessibility.  The Quests were written for children in 4th through 6th grades, but can be modified by teachers or parents for use with children of other ages and abilities.  Each Quest takes kids through a series of steps that encourage them to use the Internet to learn about a disability and the effect it has on a child's life.  Kids' Quest covers topics like Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Autism spectrum disorders, vision impairment, and difficulty moving around. Click here to visit the Kids' Quest webpage. BAM! Body and Mind is an online destination for kids created by CDC.  It is designed for kids 9-13 years old.  BAM! gives them the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices. The site focuses on topics that kids said are important to them — such as stress and physical fitness — using kid-friendly lingo, games, quizzes, and other interactive features.  BAM! Body and Mind also serves as an aid to teachers, providing them with interactive, educational, and fun activities that are linked to the national education standards for science and health. Click here to learn more about what BAM! has to offer. Resources to use with Middle and High School Students  EXCITE (Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology) is a collection of teaching materials developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to introduce students to public health and epidemiology, the science used by "Disease Detectives" everywhere. Students will learn about the scientific method of inquiry, basic biostatistics, and outbreak investigation. EXCITE adapts readily to team teaching across a variety of subjects, including mathematics, social studies, history, and physical education. Click here to visit EXCITE. Resources for All Ages Global Communications Center Exhibit Area The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention welcomes the public in to explore the world of public health at its new Global Communications Center exhibit space. The exhibit space currently features the Global Symphony, the first of several permanently installed exhibitions and traveling exhibits that focus on a variety of public health topics. The Global Symphony is a must-see for anyone interested in CDC, the health sciences, or even multi-media technology. Spanning 100 feet in length, the installation delivers high impact – utilizing ten rearview projection screens, punctuated by eight plasma screens. The Symphony is designed to educate visitors about CDC’s efforts to combat health threats such as polio, Legionnaires’ disease and obesity, among others. Eventually, the Symphony will serve as the introduction to a series of permanent exhibits designed to tell the story of public health through the lens of CDC. The Global Communications Center exhibits are self-guided and no advance reservations are required – just picture ID. Curriculum-based exhibits and programming will be added in the near future. Please visit our Web page for more information about the traveling exhibits and how to visit CDC. Please note that CDC is a working federal facility and as such does not provide public tours of its campus and laboratories Public Health Image Library (PHIL) Photographs, Illustrations, Multimedia Files Much of the information critical to the communication of public health messages is pictorial rather than text-based. Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Public Health Image Library (PHIL) offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files. Click here to access PHIL. [Return to Top]

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