Games & Apps

THE FLU

Infectious Agent Board Game                          
Mapping Disease Spread
  • A team from Boston Children’s Hospital uses online sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats in order to facilitate early detection.
  • http://www.healthmap.org/en

Solve the Outbreak

IT'S GENETIC, BABY!

DNA Mutation Activity for Cystic Fibrosis 
Sequence DNA for Yourself

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

Solve the Outbreak
CDC Trading cards (trading cards online or download to print)
  • This site includes trading cards describing some of the infectious diseases (including Ebola) that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies.
  • http://www.cdc.gov/museum/cards.htm

Infectious Agent Board Game 
Mapping Disease Spread
  • A team from Boston Children’s Hospital uses online sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats in order to facilitate early detection.
  • http://www.healthmap.org/en

BrainPOP Educators 
Bioterrorism a New Topic in Science Class 
STAR-LITE (Safe Techniques Advance Research – Laboratory Interactive Training Environment)
  • This is an interactive simulation designed to increase laboratory safety awareness developed by the Division of Occupational Health and Safety (DOAHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that teaches students how to work safely in the laboratory.
  • http://www.starlite.nih.gov/teacher

THE WORLD AROUND ME

Welcome to RadTown USA - EPA
  • This interactive site teaches the concept of radiation to middle and high school students. The activities introduce basic concepts of radiation, radiation protection, radioactive atoms, radiation exposure and radioactive decay as well as bring awareness and understanding of radiation to the students.
  • http://www3.epa.gov/radtown/

SUPERBUGS: ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

Mapping Disease Spread
  • A team from Boston Children’s Hospital uses online sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats in order to facilitate early detection.
  • http://www.healthmap.org/en/

Solve the Outbreak   
Trading Cards (online or download to print) - CDC
  • This site includes trading cards describing some of the infectious diseases and drug resistance that the CDC and public health laboratory scientists study.
  • http://www.cdc.gov/museum/cards.htm

MEASLES, MUMPS, PERTUSSIS - OH MY!

Mapping Disease Spread
  • A team from Boston Children’s Hospital uses online sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats in order to facilitate early detection.
  • http://www.healthmap.org/en/

Solve the Outbreak

Infectious Disease Trading Cards
  • This card set includes photos and information about infectious diseases that CDC public health scientists study. You can view the set online OR download and print your own copy.
  • http://www.cdc.gov/museum/cards.htm

THERE'S WHAT IN MY FOOD?

Mapping Disease Spread
  • A team from Boston Children’s Hospital uses online sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats in order to facilitate early detection.
  • http://www.healthmap.org/en

Solve the Outbreak 
Pathogen Tracker
  • This online game has been created as a fun challenge for anyone interested in learning more about the spread of foodborne illnesses and how online databases can help track down the source of the organisms that cause them.
  • http://game.pathogentracker.net
 
Fight BAC! Game
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