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)

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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)

 
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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)

 
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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)

 
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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)

 
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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)

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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.