Educational Resources
 







Science Education Resource Page

  • The Elementary School Health Initiative Program: Part of the Health Sciences Technology Academy (HSTA). This program aims at enriching and enhancing the health sciences education of elementary school children, fifth graders, in seven schools in Monongalia county in West Virginia

  • Viral Motherlode: Get the scoop on a virus, whether it's tobacco mosaic virus or dreaded Ebola. A good place to start is Virology

  • Plague Fever: Check this out if you're wondering when bubonic plague last broke or if deadly drug-resistant staph bacteria are making gains in some hospitals.

  • Influenza Sequence Database: Whether it's Hong Kong's avian fly or a more ordinary bus, medical researchers can now turn to what is billed as the "world's most comprehensive collection of genetic information about the influenza virus."

  • Cell's Alive: View a blood cell eating a fungus, viruses attacking a vacterium, or bacteria succumbing to penicillin.

  • Window on Disease: A web site by the National Center for Biotechnology Information that holds lots of human gene databases and information on genetic disorders.