Grade Range: 9-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 7/17/2008
This website uses images, artifacts, oral histories and interactive resources to tell the story of the polio epidemics in the United States and the struggle to find a vaccination to prevent them. The exhibition is divided into four parts covering the effects of polio on communities, families and medicine, the social, scientific and medical legacies of the disease, how the virus works and how a vaccine was developed, and the state of the global campaign to eradicate polio today. This exhibition will help students learn the important connections between science and history.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
This early respirator for producing artificial respiration over long periods of time was designed...
20th Century, 20th century, Poliomyelitis, Disease, Paralysis, 1900's, Infantile paralysis, medicine, medical, science, Polio, paralysis, poliomyelitis, poliovirus, twentieth century, disease, Whatever Happened to Polio, Health, Medicine, medical, infantile paralysis, health
A picture book that tells the story of athlete Wilma Rudolph, her struggle against polio, and her...
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