Resource Links

Health and Safety

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
A Web site for students, teachers, and parents. The site contains activities as well as frequently asked questions about marijuana and other drugs.

The Laboratory Safety Institute
The Laboratory Safety Institute is dedicated to providing the highest quality safety training, audits, inspections and consultation services in a wide variety of academic and non-academic environments. Learn simple, inexpensive (even free) things that you can do to improve your school's safety program, to help protect yourself and your students.

Tox Town
An interactive Web site that enables students and teachers to learn about the environmental health concerns in various neighborhoods: town, city, US-Mexico border, and farm.

NIH Curriculum Supplements for Middle School Science and Health Teachers.
Middle school science teachers can supplement and update their curricula with new, free teaching materials from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Each of the three new curriculum supplements is a self-contained teacher’s guide to two weeks of lessons on science and human health and includes background information, lesson plans, take-home materials, and interactive components. The modules are designed to promote inquiry-based, interdisciplinary learning and to encourage students’ interest in science. You can access these new supplements and others in this series (for grades K–12) online. A pandemic is an outbreak of an infectious disease (epidemic) that spreads over a region or worldwide. The flu pandemic has revived interest in past pandemics, e.g. the pandemic in Greece in 430 BC, the Black Death in Europe (1347-1350), cholera (19th century), and three flu pandemics in the 20th century. The UN World Health Organization has listed "Ten Things You Need To Know About Pandemic Influenza" at this Web site.