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Is a Gluten-Free Diet Beneficial to Your Health?

Featured Media Resource: VIDEO: What the Heck Is Gluten? (AsapSCIENCE) Learn about gluten and its effects on people with celiac disease. Do Now U Do you think a gluten-free diet is beneficial to...

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The Fate of Polio: Eradication or Elimination?

Do Now U Should global efforts to completely eradicate polio continue or is elimination of the disease enough? #DoNowUPolio How to Do Now To respond to the Do Now U, you can comment below or post your...

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Who Should Be Responsible for Funding Global Health Initiatives?

Featured Media Resource: VIDEO: Jimmy Carter’s Last Wish (Vocativ) Jimmy Carter describes his dream for the last guinea worm to die before he does. Do Now U Who Should Be Responsible for Funding Global...

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Will the Flint Water Crisis Motivate More Efficient Responses in the Future?

Featured Media Resource: VIDEO: Here’s How Flint’s Water Crisis Happened (CNN) Hear a summary of the information available to the state regarding the Flint water crisis, the decisions they made and...

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Is Milk Good or Bad for You?

Featured Media Resource: VIDEO: The Chocolate Milk Debate (ABC News) Learn about the potentially negative effects of high-calorie, high-sugar chocolate milk in elementary school lunchrooms, forcing us...

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What Influences Your Dietary Choices?

Featured Media Resource: VIDEO: Healthy Eating Tips: Do We Control Our Food Choices? (Rutgers Today) “Food framing” is a strategy of food vendors to attract consumers to specific food choices. Do Now U...

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Living in the United States: Is It Good for Our Health?

It’s called the Latino Paradox – immigrants arriving in the United States tend to be healthier than the average American, but as they remain in the country, their health declines. In the documentary...

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Work Voices 3 – Rita Cai, Dental Assistant

Download Educators’ Activities Here Transcript (English) Transcript (Spanish) Rita Cai is from China and describes how she learned English at Milpitas Adult School, and then went on to train as a...

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Work Voices 4 – Jose Puzon, Dialysis Technician

Download Educators’ Activities Here Transcript (English) Transcript (Spanish) Meet Jose Puzon, from the Philippines who works as a dialysis technician. Jose Puzon is from the Philippines and decided...

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Work Voices 5 – Carlos Garcia, Health Interpreter

Download Educators’ Activities Here Transcript (English) Transcript (Spanish) Meet Carlos Garcia, from Nicaragua, who works as a certified health interpreter. Carlos Garcia describes how he chose his...

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Work Voices 6 – Paweena Lizarraga, Lab Assistant

Download Educators’ Activities Here Transcript (English) Transcript (Spanish) Paweena Lizarraga came to the USA from Thailand in 2006 and trained at City College of San Francisco on the Bridge to...

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Selling Obamacare to California’s Immigrant Communities

Mina Kim, KQED’s health reporter for the California Report, covered this important issue for ESL communities. She poses the question: “In a state as diverse as California, what will it take to sell...

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Are Schools Teaching Sex Ed Too Late?

To respond to the Do Now, you can comment below or tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDEdspace and end it with #DoNowSexEd For more info on how to use Twitter, click here. Do Now...

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How Can Schools Make Lunches More Appealing to Teens?

Featured media resource: Making Lunch Local for California Kids (Youth Radio) California public schools serve 560 million lunches a year. In a place that also grows a lot of this country’s food, it...

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