Resources for Elementary School Students
1) Toxmystery and Toxtown-- These interactive sites from the National Library of Medicine explores dangers in the home http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov and in other environments such as the farm, the city, ports and along the US/Mexican border http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/
2) Public Broadcasting System. The Doctor over Time. This Shockwave interactive program lets you view a visit to the doctor in 1900, 1950, and 1998. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/doctor/#
Resources for Middle School Students
1) Visible Proofs -- educational resources in support of the National Library of Medicine Exhibit on Forensic Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/
2) Against the Odds -- educational resources about geographic locations and global health in support of the National Library of Medicine Exhibit. For middle school and high school students http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/againsttheodds/online_activities/index.cfm
3) Association for Science Education (British site). History of Medicine: Learning from the past. -- from prehistoric, through Egyption, Greek and Roman, Arabic, Middle Ages to the 21st Century. Includes a nice interactive timeline. http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/abpi/history/index.html
Changing the Face of Medicine
This web page is inspired by the National Library of Medicine/American Library Association traveling exhibit -- Changing the Face of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/
The exhibit, sponsored by the academic medical libraries of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City will be in Kansas City on October 3- November 11, 2009.
See further information at http://library.kumc.edu/womeninmedicine/
Resources for Teens
Interactive Health Tutorials from The National Library of Medicine's Consumer Health/Patient Education Database MedlinePlus about Diseases or Conditions and Tests or Procedures http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html
Anatomy & Physiology II Animations -- Movies and Interactive Tutorial links from Lone Star College - North Harris, Houston, TX -- http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/biol/ap2int.htm
Peer Review Education Resource (discusses how scientific information is evaluated and published) -- http://www.senseaboutscience.net/
Is Medicine the Career for Me? American Medical Women's Association. http://www.amwa-doc.org/index.cfm?objectId=528AA60E-D567-0B25-510FC5FF5E8FCA7A
Control your Blood Pressure --Image from the History of Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/index.html
There are lots more images at this National Library of Medicine site. It's also searchable by keyword or names.
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