Human Body

Get Body Smart: Respiratory System Interactive Tutorials & Quizzes [Macromedia Flash Player]

http://www.getbodysmart.com/ap/respiratorysystem/menu/menu.html

Don't know your trachea from your bronchioles? Never fear, as this informative and delightful interactive website from GetBodySmart.com contains interactive learning exercises designed to help users learn about the respiratory system. The site features seven tutorials that feature both explanatory text passages and well-labeled illustrations. These tutorials cover the larynx, the pharynx, the nose, and four other parts of the respiratory system. After looking through these tutorials, visitors may wish to take the visual quizzes, which come in both multiple choice and short answer formats. For those hoping to learn more about other body systems, they will want to take a look at the additional links offered here

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Slide rule for a good night's sleep
http://www.unisa.edu.au/news/2007/190707.asp
Researchers at the University of South Australia have found that a general lack of awareness about the amount of sleep that children need at different ages is a contributing factor to sleep loss. As part of a broader public health strategy addressing sleep, health and learning in children, they have developed the Sleep Slide Rule for use in the classroom to illustrate the relationship between children's age and their sleep needs.

How The Heart Works

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/hhw/hhw_whatis.html

Figuring out how the heart functions in a metaphorical sense can be an unending and highly metaphysical process (just ask John Donne), so it’s nice to find a place online where visitors can learn how the heart functions in a literal sense. This website was created by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and begins by answering the basic question: “What is the Heart?” After reading this short and informative piece of writing, visitors can meander through sections titled “Anatomy”, “Contraction”, “Circulation”, “Electrical System”, and “Heart Disease”. Each section provides a brief summary of each topic, complete with graphic illustrations and several digital animations. It’s a well-constructed and user-friendly introduction to this important topic, and one that will be of use to those entering one of the health care professions, or those who are intrigued with various body systems.

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007. http://scout.wisc.edu/

The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General
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    Full text of the May 2004 report from U.S. Surgeon General Richard
    H. Carmona on smoking and health, which reveals "for the first
    time that smoking causes diseases in nearly every organ of the
    body. ... [It] finds that cigarette smoking is conclusively linked
    to diseases such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of
    the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach." Includes links to
    related government resources on smoking.

   http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/smokingconsequences/

Virtual Knee Surgery
http://www.edheads.org/activities/knee/index.htm
Take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a total knee replacement surgery. An American educational site for students in years 7-12, it provides a glossary of terms, and works through the operation using cartoons. The student is required to respond to prompts. Screens can be subtitled.

programs/smokesignals/
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the physical effects of smoking and methods to avoid the temptation to smoke.

REDI
http://www.redi.gov.au/
This website provide a comprehensive good practice bibliographic database of policies, programs and curriculum resource materials currently available in Drug Education.

Taking Care of Me
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/

Human Body Systems WebQuest
http://www.oatlandsps.vic.edu.au/humanbody/HumanBody_Webquest.htm
This webquest focusses on the working of the human body with the following scenario: 'With recession on the rise, cut backs are being made across the board, even in the body systems. There are so many systems that make up the human body that the Board of Human Systems has decided to eliminate one of the major systems. As systems in the human body, you have to defend your system in front of the Board of Human Body Systems. You must convince the Board of the importance of your system. First you need to collect information about your system. Then you will have to present your case, describing and defending your system, directly to the board.'