Center for Disease Control and Prevention site for bloodborne infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B & C.

Scientists who are working to discover new medicines often use robots to prepare samples of cells, allowing them to test chemicals to identify those that might be used to treat diseases. Students will meet a scientist who works to identify new medicines. She created free software that ''looks'' at images of cells and determines which images show cells that have responded to the potential medicines. Students will learn about how this technology is currently enabling research to identify new antibiotics to treat tuberculosis. Students will complete hands-on activities that demonstrate how new medicines can be discovered using robots and computer software, starring the student as ''the computer.'' In the process, the students learn about experimental design, including positive and negative controls.

Students read a brochure about disease prevention and create a poster promoting one disease prevention point.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention site on the lifestyle risk factors related to chronic disease.

This lesson pairs the reading of historical fiction with nonfiction to introduce students to the large themes of history.