Health Science Resources
Award-winning health science resources from our HealthRICH and Strive to Thrive programs include activities, posters, postcards, readings, and more. Some materials are available in Spanish.
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Student Readings
- Chemical Safety: Stop, Read, and Heed (305KB PDF)
- Chemical Safety: Safe Not Sorry Reading (2.48MB PDF)
- Hand Hygiene: Why Wash? (467KB PDF)
- MRSA: Don’t Mess With MRSA (10KB PDF)
- H1N1: Thank a chicken…and a cow… for your flu vaccine! (235KB PDF)
Hands-on Activities
- Chemical Safety: Safety Scavenger Hunt (305KB PDF)
- Chemical Safety: Are Homemade Cleaners Safer? (130KB PDF)
- Hand Hygiene: Wash This Way! Hands-on Activity (191KB PDF)
- Hand Hygiene: Watching Granny Smith Rot Hands-on Activity (414KB PDF)
- MRSA: How to Create Drug-Resistant Bacteria: A Lesson in Evolution(142KB) Activity Sample Data (73KB PDF)
- H1N1: Vaccinate Me! (2MB PDF)
Family Challenge Handouts for Outreach
- Instructions for Setting Up Family Challenge Activities (340KB)
- Hand Hygiene: Why Wash? Family Challenge (470KB PDF)
- Drinking Water: Water Taste Test Family Challenge (261KB PDF)
- Chemical Safety: Homemade Cleaner Family Challenge (175KB PDF)
- Skin Health: UV Beads Family Challenge (405KB PDF)
Ethics Scenarios
- Hand Hygiene: Antibiotics, Bacterial Resistance, and Antibacterial Products: Public vs. Individual Responsibility (146KB PDF)
- Indoor Pollution: Asthma, Cockroaches, and Public vs. Individual Responsibility (92KB PDF)
- Chemical Safety: Waste Disposal Ethical Dilemma (186KB PDF)
- Skin Health: Indoor Tanning/Skin Bleaching: Workplace Ethical Dilemma (121KB PDF)
- Drinking Water: Bottled Water Ethical Dilemma (142KB PDF)
Spanish Resources
Spanish Books from Strive to Thrive series
- Hand Hygiene: ¡Enjabónate! (12.23MB PDF)
- Skin Health: ¡MÁS PROFUNDO QUE LA PIEL! (18.16MB PDF)
Spanish Short Activity Handouts for Family Science Outreach
- Instrucciones para preparar las actividades de retos para la familia (363KB PDF)
- Hand Hygiene: ¿Por qué lavarse? Un reto para la familia (Why Wash?) (469KB PDF)
- Skin Health: Cuentas UV, un reto para la familia (UV Beads) (404KB PDF)
- Drinking Water: Prueba del sabor del agua, un reto para la familia (Water Taste Test) (264KB PDF)
- Chemical Safety: Los limpiadores hechos en casa, un reto para la familia (Homemade Cleaner) (179KB PDF)
Spanish Student Activity sections from Camp and Club Science Sourcebook
- Hand Hygiene: Tema 1 (3.17MB PDF)
- Drinking Water: Tema 2 (192KB PDF)
- Indoor Pollution: Tema 3 (3.27MB PDF)
- Skin Health: Tema 4 (3.11MB PDF)
Postcards and Posters
- Chemical Safety: Warning Words + Signal Words Postcard (710KB PDF)
- Chemical Safety: Safe Not Sorry Poster (533KB PDF)
- Hand Hygiene: Why Wash? Postcard (3.11MB PDF)
- Hand Hygiene: Do you wash your hands?
- Large Poster (11.75″ x 17″ PDF)
- Small Poster (8.5″ x 11″ PDF)
- Small Low Res. Poster (8.5″ x 11″ PDF)
- MRSA: Don’t Mess with MRSA Postcard (1.3MB PDF)
- MRSA: Don’t Mess with MRSA Poster (2.7MB PDF)
- Skin Health: Sun Safety Poster(4.42MB PDF)
- Indoor Pollution: Postcard (1.21MB PDF)
- Indoor Pollution: Poster (5.75MB PDF)
HealthRICH: Health Risks, Information and Choices is funded by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) grant from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.