ALEX Classroom Resources

Subject: Health Education (9 - 12)
Title: The Price We Pay for Health: US and Canada
URL: https://www.econedlink.org/resources/the-price-we-pay-for-health-us-and-canada/
Description:

Students will review the health systems of the United States and Canada. They will identify the positive aspects of each system. They will look at the trade-offs associated with those positive aspects. In Canada, everyone has health care, but certain specialized medical services are not always available. In the United States, many people are not insured, yet for many people the access to technology and specialization is phenomenal. Which is the better choice? Students will also recognize that choosing between these two systems requires a trade-off between the economic goals of economic freedom and economic security.

Subject: Health Education (10 - 12)
Title: 5 Videos for Your Global Public Health Lesson Plans
URL: https://www.boclips.com/blog/5-videos-for-your-global-public-health-lesson-plans
Description:

When we think about the ways in which our world is connected, systems of global trade, international travel, or economics come to mind. But as pandemics like COVID-19 or the Spanish Flu have taught us, public health is one of the most critical aspects of our reliance on each other.

Subject: Health Education (10 - 12)
Title: Global Health, In One Word
URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.media.gheli.bbox.ly/filer_public/a5/bc/a5bcda9a-cecc-4d5d-8c7f-9124ddfb6ec8/2018_gheli_arthlth_lesson1.pdf
Description:

The purpose of this lesson plan is to help students synthesize their global health knowledge through visual representation. Students will create a piece of artwork through an iterative process that reflects their personal understanding of global health and participate in a facilitated discussion to reflect on the broader implications of the artwork. Using art to facilitate discussion allows students to process the class material by exploring their personal connections with the complex concepts.

Subject: Health Education (10 - 12)
Title: World Health Chart
URL: https://www.gapminder.org/fw/world-health-chart/
Description:

This resource shows that income and health go hand in hand. People live longer in richer countries. Countries are richer where people live longer. There are no high-income countries with a short life expectancy and no low-income countries with a long life expectancy. Still, there’s a huge difference in life expectancy between countries on the same income level, depending on how the money is distributed and how it is used.

Subject: Health Education (9 - 12)
Title: Global Health
URL: https://slides.ourworldindata.org/teaching_notes/ch3/health#/29
Description:

This resource is a slide show presentation full of charts and visuals about the topic of global health and healthcare. Be sure to recognize the slide show controller in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.

These teaching notes are part of a series of resources from Our World in Data.
They have been designed to support those interested in teaching and learning about global development, and they require no background knowledge.

Here we touch on the following questions:
How does the general health situation of people in poor countries compare to the health of people in rich countries?
How are population health outcomes changing over time?
How difficult is it to improve health outcomes in poor countries?

Subject: Health Education (10 - 12)
Title: Governing Global Health: The World Health Organization and Ebola
URL: https://www.choices.edu/teaching-news-lesson/governing-global-health-world-health-organization-ebola/
Description:

In this lesson, students will explore the structure of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its role in the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Students will be expected to discuss challenges the WHO has faced in responding to the Ebola outbreak. This lesson will culminate with the students creating a poster to help the WHO get more people involved in the effort to stop the Ebola epidemic.

Subject: Health Education (10 - 12)
Title: Educator's Guide to Hosting a Global Health Conference
URL: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/againsttheodds/online_activities/lesson_plan_guide.html
Description:

This guide uses biology, health, and world study topics to engage students in global health issues and solutions from experiential and multidisciplinary perspectives. The guide offers an outline of how to organize and host a "Global Health Conference," and provides suggestions regarding logistics and instructions as well as resource materials for preparing and organizing a student conference. The Global Health Conference is a school event where students present display boards and two-page essays on various countries and their health challenges, very much like a science fair.

As a template, the guide can be modified to suit each educator's goals, student needs, and school policies. The guide is designed to involve all students from a single grade level—e.g., all seventh-grade students. However, educators can use pieces from the guide or tailor it to one class or a whole school. It is recommended that each educator adapt this guide to the most appropriate scale for his or her own school environment and policies, student needs, and learning outcomes.

Subject: Health Education (8 - 12)
Title: Plugged In
URL: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Media/9780300228090_UPDF.pdf
Description:

In the past decades, a dazzling number of studies have investigated the effects of old and new media on children and teens. These studies have greatly improved our understanding of why youth are so massively attracted to media. And they have also shown how children and teens can be affected by media, in positive and negative ways. Plugged In provides insight into the most important issues and debates regarding media, children, and teens.

Subject: Health Education (9 - 12)
Title: Coal's Deadly Dust - A Resurgence in Black Lung Disease
URL: https://thinktv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/fln37cdd-soc-blacklung/a-resurgence-in-black-lung-disease-coals-deadly-dust/
Description:

Learn how the recent resurgence of progressive massive fibrosis, the most severe form of “black lung” disease, in miners across Appalachia has been linked to the failure of coal-mine regulations to limit silica dust levels in these excerpts from Coal’s Deadly Dust | FRONTLINE, in partnership with NPR.

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