A
Brush Chart which can be printed and colored. A reminder to brush your teeth
at least twice a day.
BAM
- Body and Mind - BAM! Body and Mind is a resource for you to incorporate
CDC health, safety, and science topics into your classroom. The site also
offers your students interactive content to investigate topics for school or for
a personal interest.
Your
Body - From growing up to getting braces, popping pimples to catching some
ZZZs, this section gives you the basics on your changing body - from head
to toe. For teens.
Calories
- How many calories am I burning when I exercise?
Clean
Hands and Good Manners - Manners and hand-washing go “hand in hand”
when it comes to a safe and pleasant cafeteria environment.
CoolSpot
- Teen place for information on Alcohol and resisting peer pressure
Drugs
and Alcohol - A 13-issue soap opera comic book about young people dealing
with substance abuse and addiction.
Drug
Database - Prescription, Nonprescription and Herbal medicine database collections
from Web MD
Drug
Information - Find information about more than 7,000 prescription and over-the-counter
medications, including common uses of a drug, the proper ways to use the medicine,
possible side effects, and other helpful information.
Drug
Testing - Withstanding the test of time -NCAA drug-testing program has been
more than an effective deterrent for substance abuse
InteliHealth
- Interactive Tools, Quizzes, and Illustrations
KidsHealth.org
- trainloads of information on infections, behavior & emotions, food &
fitness, and growing up healthy, as well as cool games and animation
Mind
over Matter - Help adolescents learn about the effects of drug abuse on the
body and the brain.
Obesity
- Video Discussion by teens on their fights with obesity. Quizzes, body image
and eating disorders included.
Obesity
- Healthy and Active Kids - interactive site for students in grades 4-8
OnHealth:
Your Personal Guide to Health - Special reports and news items related to
health are the focus of this site. The conditions database offers a wealth of
information. Acne, AIDS, and Alzheimer's are just a few I found in the A category
of their conditions database.
Walk
in My Shoes - an activity project that reaches across generations and teaches
young people about growing older and the physical changes that occur with age.
What's
your Real Age? - Your Real Age is the biological age of your body, based on
how well you've maintained it. Take this online quiz.
Why
Am I Dehydrated? - Get yourself a glass of water and keep reading to find
out!
Elementary
Objects - Standards based information, printable materials, interactive activities,
work sheets, videos, or other educational resources. Grades K-8 Select a grade,
then click on Physical Education.
Exercise training programs - wide range
of FREE exercises and exercise training prgrams
ExRx
- "ExRx.net (Exercise Prescription on the Net) is a free resource for the
exercise professional, coach, or fitness enthusiast." ExRx.net consists of
over 2000 pages"
First
Grade Fitness Lesson Plan - student-centered fitness activities that can be
integrated into classroom subjects such as physical education, math, science,
and health education.
Game
Coaching Tool - A "Must See" site! Interactive virtual whiteboard
tool for sports coaches. This is a British site and the names of the games will
be different from the ones used in America.
Games
Basketball
Golf - Make shooting fun and competitive - high school
Castle
Ball -practice working together as a team while playing both offense and defense
- high school
Games
and more - worksheets, lesson plans, and ideas (scroll down to see the list)
Games
Kids Play - All those games you played as kid out in the backyard
Physical
Education Lesson Plan Page - The page is stored on a free server and if it
is over-viewed, Tripod (the free server people), will turn the page off for about
two hours.
5 a Day from Dole - Nutrition education
and fun activities for kids. In the virtual classroom students have daily assignments
for a week. One example, "If you were in charge of your school cafeteria, what
fruits and vegetables would serve?"
Eating
Disorders - index to information about aq variety of eating disorders
Food
Fit - a really nice food pyramid, and a good explanation of each group.
Food
Allergy - science behind the most common food allergies and intolerances
Healthy
Eating - (Elementary grades) interactive whiteboard screens with basic nutritional
information
The
Healthy Refrigerator - Open the door to a healthy heart. [This page opens
in a new window. When you are finished at the Healthy Refrigerator,
close the window to return to this list]
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