Published by Australian Academy of Science
Activities | Sun and skin – a dangerous combination

1. Protecting skin from the sun

2. Absorption of ultraviolet radiation by the atmosphere

Other activities

• Activity pages for secondary students (SunSmart, Australia)
  Provides a number of activities including:
  • SunSmart hidden message - students decode a message about skin cancer.
  • SunSmart UV alert activity - a worksheet on the UV radiation index.
  • UV postcard design - students design and plan to distribute a postcard

• Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
  • The behaviour and health connection - students explore how personal behaviour can affect health, especially the health of your skin.
  • Sun and skin - learn about the damaging effects of sunburns and tanning, and how sunscreens work to protect us from the sun’s harmful UV rays.

• Daily Lesson Plan (New York Times, USA)
  • That healthy glow? - students create posters related to tanning and skin cancer.

• Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (UK)
  • Skin structure and function - provides information and then asks a series of questions about skin structure and function.

• United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • EXCITE Skin Cancer Module - contains a number of classroom modules on the topics of skin, skin cancer and epidemiology.

• Cancer Council South Australia
  
  • School zone - a variety of teaching resources, suitable from early childhood learning to secondary school students.