Educators
Interactive Websites
Interested in science or health? Check out the links below that include online games and activities to help you learn about the human body, a variety of health topics and health careers.
CDC’s BAM (Body and Mind)
Got a question about: Fitness? Diseases? Peer Pressure? You’ve come to the right place! BAM! Body and Mind will tell you all you need to know about all the stuff that matters.
Developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Discovery Kids: The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
Find out all about the human body with Wendell the Worm, Yucky’s Ace Reporter. Learn all about the gross and cool stuff humans’ bodies create—burps, snores, gas and more.
Developed by Discovery Communications
Edheads
Edheads offers students educational web experiences designed to make hard-to-teach concepts understandable. Games and activities revolve around the medical field. Topics include: Create a Stem Cell Line, Deep Brain Stimulation, Virtual Hip Replacement, and Virtual Knee Surgery.
EdHeads is a non-profit organization sponsored by Ohio State University Medical Center and the National Center for Regenerative Medicine
Girlshealth.gov
This site was created to help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. It focuses on health topics that girls are concerned about and helps motivate them to choose healthy behaviors by using positive, supportive, and non-threatening messages. Topics include nutrition, fitness, illness and disability, relationships, safety and much more.
Developed by US Department of Health and Human Service’s Office on Women’s Health
Infection, Detection, Protection
This site will help students and their families understand what causes infectious disease and what they can do to help prevent it. Sample titles: Meet the Microbes, How Lou Got the Flu, The Mixed-UP Microbe Mystery, The Prevention Convention.
Sponsored by American Museum of Natural History
Kinetic City
A collection of science experiments, games, activities, challenges and more for everyone to enjoy online and away from the computer. Sample activity titles include: Respiration Relay, Fitness Factor, The Pulse is Right, Germ Tag.
Developed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Medical Mysteries on the Web
Web Adventures is a web site with a collection of Flash games in which you may explore science and health related subjects, including forensic science, microbiology, neuroscience, and body systems. Ever wondered what it’s like to be a CSI? Become part of the team and solve three cases, featuring the characters from the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Or, join a team of experts in several different missions to solve mysterious disease outbreaks.
Developed by Rice University’s Center for Technology and Learning
Nutrition Café
Learn about Nutrition through games. Use clues to find the missing nutrient in Nutrition Sleuth. Find out if you are eating right in Have a Bite Café.
Developed by the Pacific Science Center and the Washington State Dairy Council
Texas Hot Jobs: Career Exploration Modules
The Career Exploration Modules allow students to explore careers and see what professionals experience in real-life situations and includes some video clips of professionals at work. Sample module titles include: Outbreak-Discovering the Cause, Heart Failure, Diabetes, Lung Cancer with Bone Mets.
Developed by the West Texas AHEC (Area Health Education Center)
This page was last updated by Janice Troyer on February 06, 2012
