Health & Wellbeing Reviews

Health & Wellbeing Web Site Reviews

Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 905
Title: Children's Middle Ear Infections
Description: Teachers have to be all things to all people and being a doctor is part of the job description. Middle ear infections can cause many children to suffer hearing loss and it is important that these infections are diagnosed quickly and dealt with effectively. With parents often racing children to school infections such as these are easily missed. A good web site and it can be used to keep teachers and parents up-to-date and informed.
Rating: ******
Level: Ideal for year levels 10-12   On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 906
Title: Fire Safety Resources
Description: Teachers will find an excellent collection of games, books and pamphlets all dealing with home fire safety. These resources include word searches, question answers, mazes, an escape plan diagram and much more.
Rating: ******
Level: deal for year levels 0-5   On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 907
Title: Global Environmental Change and Our Health
Description: This online course/web site is based on the course of a similar name taught at the John Hopkins graduate school but is targeted at Middle School students, teachers and parents. It is based around the television series "Journey to Planet Earth". The site deals with biodiversity loss, global warming, malaria, malnutrition, the ozone hole, air pollution and at the same time builds connections between ecology and health.
Rating: ******
Level: Ideal for year levels 5-10   On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 908
Title: Smallpox
Description: This web site, from the United States Department of Health & Human Services, presents an excellent introduction to the basics of smallpox and the vaccination programs that have been set up to eliminate it, as well as information for kids, teens and parents. Excellent fact sheets and background information.
Rating: ******
Level: Ideal for all year levels   On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 909
Title: 1 Up Health
Description: If you are looking for encyclopaedic information on any aspect of health then this online resource will meet your every need. As well as a medical encyclopaedia covering 4000 topics it also presents extensive information on more than 1600 and from diseases, conditions, illnesses and disorders. Site also contains an excellent collection of tests and exams, information backgrounding clinical trials, health News, diet and nutrition, poisons and overdoses and a section dealing with alternative medicine. This true ears are very comprehensive health resource.
Rating: *****
Level: Ideal for year levels 6-12   On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 910
Title: A Girls Place: Menstruation Webquest  
Description: This Webquest deals sensitively with the issues of the female ovarian cycle.  In this task the student has been given the job of director of students services in the school division of a feminine supply company.  The goal of the program is to help young girls such as yourself to feel comfortable about getting their period.  You need to create visual aids, such as a music video, skit or a TV commercial to get the attention of the girls. 
Rating: *****
Level: Ideal for year levels 5-7  On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 911
Title: About-Face
Description: About-face promotes positive self-esteem for girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism. The site highlights negative marketing campaigns that focus on the "perfect image" and inappropriate uses of the female form in order to generate sales of dishwashers et all!
Rating: *****
Level: Ideal for year levels 5-12   On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 912
Title: Ascending New Heights  
Description: Mountaineering requires a high level of team work where often the lives of the team members are dependent on each member carrying out very specific tasks under extreme conditions.  This online Webquest will take students through the process of organising teams, assigning roles and tackling the ultimate mountain.
Rating: *****
Level: Ideal for year levels 9-11  On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 913
Title: Asia Food   
Description: We had to find a place for this web site, as it really is wonderful.  You can search, via keyword, to find any recipe that has its origins, or partial origin, in the Asian region.  You can also search through the encyclopaedia of Asian food, or search via region for particular dishes.  For students looking at applications in the food technology area this may be of some use, but in truth it is just an excuse for teachers to explore this wonderful site.
Rating: *****
Level: Ideal for teachers    On the web

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Subject: Health & Wellbeing     ID: 914
Title: BADvertising Institute
Description: If you're looking to dissuade and counter some of the advertising from cigarette companies then these adverts are perfect. By juxtaposing silly, gross and disgusting images on top of deceitful ads the site aims to jolt people into realising how tobacco im
Rating: *****
Level: Ideal for year levels 5-12  On the web

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