February Features from Internet 4 Classrooms

February Blog | App of The Month | What's Happening |
New- Online Practice | New- Printables | New- Answer Keys |
Teacher Resources | Parent Resources | Technology Tips |
Other Areas of Interest | Common Core |
SAT and ACT Test Preparation

February brings Black History Month, Children's Dental Health Month, Valentine's Day, President's Day, and much more.

February Blog: Physical Education viewed through the Lens of Healthspan, Part Four – Aerobic Training

Physical Education viewed through the Lens of Healthspan, Part Four – Aerobic Training

This month's blog is Physical Education viewed through the Lens of Healthspan, Part Four – Aerobic Training .

This blog is the fourth in a series discussing how to gain perspective on the value of physical education by viewing it through the lens of "Healthspan". This blog covers the importance of Aerobic Training - Aerobic training is any rhythmic, repetitive activity that uses your body’s large muscle groups. Walking, cycling and swimming are some examples of aerobic exercise. Aerobic training slightly increases your heart rate and how much oxygen your body uses. Along with discussing Aerobic Training through the lens of "Healthspan," we touch on key elements of aerobic training and provide a short list of resources on aerobic training.

Guest Blogger Bill Franklin, the CEO of Internet4Classrooms, is our guest blogger this month. He has been on the faculty at The George Washington University, has years of platform instructional experience, was a career Army Special Operations officer and also has decades of experience as a youth sports coach.

App of the Month

Every month we are going to feature a different, and hopefully FREE, iPad/iPod/iPhone/Android educational application. Visit our ever-changing app page.

The App of the Month for February is Breathwrk: Breathing Exercises by Breathwork Inc. ( iOS and Android ).

Breathwrk is #1 breathing app for Sleep, Stress, Focus, and Energy. Breathwrk is a simple yet powerful way to improve your mental and physical wellbeing in just seconds with neuroscience based breathing exercises. Join the millions breathing with Breathwrk across the world today!

Breathwrk makes it fun and easy to learn and master breathwork with guided breathing exercises. Get a full sensory experience with customizable sounds, visuals, haptic vibrations, and breath coaches. Build your practice by setting reminders, tracking streaks, and following Breathwrk’s recommended protocols.

Breathwrk adapts to your lungs, goals, and the time of day to improve your body and mind. Explore an extensive library of guided exercises and classes that help improve stress, anxiety, sleep, energy, focus, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), lung capacity, blood pressure, and more. It’s not magic, it's neuroscience!

Discover and master the same techniques used by psychotherapists, Olympic athletes, sleep doctors, Navy SEALs, yogis, neuroscientists, and breath experts like Wim Hof and James Nestor!

Breathwrk is recommended by top psychologists, mental health experts, and even NBA coaches. It is fast, easy, yet powerfully effective. You can do Breathwrk anytime, anyplace, and anywhere!

Change your breath, change your life!

FEATURES INCLUDE:

• 100s of exercises and classes
  
  
• Daily classes updated every 24 hours
  
  
• Habit tracking and reminders
  
  
• Custom Reminders
  
  
• Streaks & Levels
  
  
• Lung score and exhale tests
  
  
• Apple Health Integration
  
  
• Mindfulness Minutes
  
  
• Offline Access
  
  
• And More
  

CALMING EXERCISES

• Activates your parasympathetic nervous system
  
  
• Reduces cortisol, lowers stress, and improves mood
  
  
• Relaxes muscles, lowers heart rate, and blood pressure
  
  
• Improves heart rate variability (HRV) and lung capacity
  
  
• Leads to long-term neuroplasticity
  

FOCUSING AND ENERGIZING EXERCISES

• Activates your sympathetic nervous system
  
  
• Improves focus, cognition, and memory
  
  
• Enhances physical performance and readiness
  
  
• Improves heart rate variability (HRV) and lung capacity
  
  
• Leads to long-term neuroplasticity
  

SLEEP EXERCISES (4-7-8)

• Activates your parasympathetic nervous system
  
  
• Reduces cortisol, lowers stress, and improves mood
  
  
• Relaxes muscles, lowers heart rate, and blood pressure
  
  
• Improves heart rate variability (HRV) and lung capacity
  
  
• Leads to long-term neuroplasticity
  

HEALTH EXERCISES

• Helps alleviate pain, headaches, and cramps
  
  
• Helps improve lung capacity and improves heart rate variability (HRV)
  
  
• Helps with cravings from quitting smoking and vaping
  
  
• Helps lower blood pressure and heart rate
  

FEATURED IN:

Forbes, RollingStone, Healthline, Goop, Vogue, The Skimm, GQ, and much more!

CONNECT WITH BREATHWRK

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Got any questions or feedback? Reach out to us at info@breathwrk.com

More Info

Privacy Policy - https://www.breathwrk.com/privacy-policy

Terms & Conditions - https://breathwrk.com/terms-and-conditions

Breathwrk: Breathing Exercises is available for Apple and Android devices.

Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.4 or later on Apple iPhone and Android version 6.0 and up on your Android device.

WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH?

Here are some of the February events that you can celebrate or make note of this month:

1. Black History Month
   
   Visit our Black History page. Find lesson plans, Black History activities and projects, timelines, quizzes, and tons of information. Some resources include Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, MLK, the role of African Americans in music, the Dred Scott Case, African flags, and an entire African American Odyssey exhibit exploring civil rights and slavery. Also find a Black History month lesson plan for every day in February by exploring our Who Is It list. Find other Famous African American Firsts here.


2. Children's Dental Health Month
   
   Take a look at "Crawford Brushes His Teeth" on our Kindergarten Science page. It's an interactive online book from Crawford the Cat where students can choose to read it themselves or have the computer read out loud. It discusses how to brush your teeth and how to floss. Use dental health month as an opportunity to find health and the body lesson plans and activities: "A Brush Chart" and "Brush Chart to Color" offer tooth charts that you can print out and color. "Bright Smiles, Bright Futures" is a link to teacher's content on the Colgate site. Learn how the body works - especially your teeth, cavities, braces, and more with these fun facts and activities.
   
3. American Heart Month
   
   Teach students about the human heart and the importance of taking care of their bodies with our health resources section for grades K - 12. Included are links to everything from the human body and the heart to the dangers of smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity, adolescence and more. There are physical education resources as well. For the upper levels I4C has resources about and anatomy videos of the heart in our Biology section, specifically "The Heart: an Online Exploration", "Heart and Circulation", "Heart Transplant from NOVA" and "Heart Videos". Find a map of the heart, the circulatory system, and how it all works together.
   
4. Groundhog Day (2/2)
   
   You can find out why we celebrate Groundhog Day and why the groundhog was chosen to be the face of the holiday.





5. National Inventors' Day (2/11)
   
   Did you know that National Inventors' Day is in honor of Thomas Edison's birthday? Learn about Thomas Edison, other famous inventors, and famous inventions. You can also check out our Inventors page to find lesson plans and other activities.





6. Valentine's Day (2/14)
   
   I4C has a great page of Valentine's Day lessons, crafts, online games and Valentine's printables. Have your students write a story using the phrases of 5 or 6 heart candy message pieces . Get creative!


7. Presidents' Day (2/17)
   
   Celebrate two presidents that have February birthdays- Abraham Lincoln (2/12) and George Washington (2/22). Find lesson plans, history, timelines, reading exercises, and quizzes on both Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Celebrate Presidents' Day with these puzzles, printable fact cards, printable biographies and prompts, coloring pages, web quests, and more.

New- ONLINE PRACTICE AT I4C

Internet4Classrooms now offers Online Practice and Interactives, covering Kindergarten to Eighth Grade Common Core Mathematics. Look for a rapidly growing variety of thousands of practice quizzes tied to the Common Core State Standards, School Subjects, Activities, and Holidays.

Check out our Online Practice Quizzes. More grades and subjects coming soon.

New Online Practice Quizzes Made Available in August

We have released many new online quizzes during the last months supporting the Common Core Standards.

Try them out, and then use them with your students as:

• Bell Ringers,
• In Class Assignments,
• Homework or
• Extra Credit.

Here is a list of the newest quizzes by grade.

New- COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS PRINTABLES AT I4C

Internet4Classrooms offers Printables, covering Kindergarten to Sixth Grade Mathematics. Look for a rapidly growing variety of thousands of practice worksheets tied to the Common Core State Standards, School Subjects, Activities, and Holidays.

Check out our Common Core Printables. More grades and subjects coming soon.

New Printables Worksheets Made Available in August

We have released thousands of new printables worksheets during the last months supporting the Common Core Standards.

Try them out, and then use them with your students as:

• Bell Ringers,
• In Class Assignments,
• Homework or
• Extra Credit.

Here is a list of the newest worksheet sets by grade.

New- Answer Keys




New Worksheet Answer Keys Made Available in August

We have released thousands of new answer keys for our printables worksheets during the last months supporting the Common Core Standards.

Remember that you can sign up for answer key access here: https://i4c.xyz/n89msyv.

Here is a list of the newest answer key sets by grade.





TEACHER RESOURCES



1. Many historical events happened this month which you can cover in your classroom. Check outI4C's History page for lesson plans, videos, activities, and other resources to supplement your lessons!


2. February honors Black History Month. As we mentioned in the section above, I4C has a large page of resources dedicated to Black History month and African American History. Take our online Black History Quiz. Discover 500 Famous African American Mathematicians. Click on the many links to timelines, historical exhibits, and Black History teacher resources.
3. In need of project ideas for the second half of the school year? We have them: subject areas, inventors, biographies, middle/high school level projects, and countries and continents.


4. Keep your students and yourself healthy this cold and flu season! Here are some great tips to share with your students and their parents.


5. Looking for lesson plans to bring in the new year? We have a whole page dedicated to lesson plans by grades and subjects.


6. Are you using our Site Map? Don't forget it's an easy and quick way to search alphabetically by topic.


7. Be sure to check out I4C's collection of free educational iPhone and iPad apps.


8. Remember to visit our Teacher Tools section. This home page contains all the topics you need to use during the school year.


9. Go to our grade level help for lesson plans, activities, instructionals, and tools organized by grade and subject.



PARENT RESOURCES




1. Are you looking for Valentine's day crafts you can do at home? We have them!
2. Celebrate Black History month with printables, projects, and crafts you can do with your kids to honor this important month.
3. Work puzzles in to your day! I4C has word search and crossword puzzle makers and tons of brain teasers!


4. Want to reinforce a concept with your child? Check out our Grade Level Skill Help page for tons of resources in math and language arts covering a variety of topics.


5. Be sure to check out I4C's collection of free educational iPhone and iPad apps for you and your child.


6. You can always visit our Parent Resources page to get grade level practice sites, find online sources, and information pertaining to homework, special needs, reading help, and more.


7. Don't forget our Technology Tutorial section in case you need refresher courses in your computer skills.





TECHNOLOGY TIPS



1. Google Scholar - High School Student Guide:
   The University of Alabama Huntsville's M. Louis Salmon Library has provided a short introductory web page to introduce scholarly focused high school students to Google Scholar.
   
   Learn more in the resource found: HERE


2. Three Little Known Features about Google Scholar:
   Though most students knows about Google, few realize the power of Google Scholar. Unlike a regular Google search, Google Scholar limits its results to sources considered to be scholarly: books, journals, abstracts, theses, and even court cases. Particularly for high school students, Google Scholar can be a great research tool; and like all things Google, it also has a few hidden features that can prove to be invaluable.
   
   You can find out more: HERE.


3. 18 Google Scholar Tips All Students Should Know:
   Google Scholar is also one of Google’s longest-running services. The comprehensive database of research papers, legal cases and other scholarly publications was the fourth Search service Google launched. This resource covers 18 things you can do in Google Scholar that you might have missed.
   
   Learn more by visiting: HERE.






We also have other basic instruction in Microsoft Office, including Word 2007, Excel 2007, Powerpoint 2007.





OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST



1. Resources for Educators - In this section you can find classroom resources for Exceptional Children, Smartboards, Character Education, Web 2.0 Resources and other topics.
2. Resources for Parents - Parents can find resources
   on assisting their children with homework, time management, Internet Safety, subject area resources, grade level resources and more.




Common Core State Standards at I4C




Our Common Core State Standards are full of resources for every individual standard. Students can take control of their own learning by clicking on the page with the standard number, and choosing their own resource to practice that skill.




Check out our Common Core Math High School Algebra Standards, Common Core Math Standards, and Common Core ELA Standards.




SAT and ACT Test Preparation

Free Online Practice Resources for ACT Tests and SAT Tests. I4C now offers free SAT and ACT vocabulary and math quizzes. Join our SAT and ACT Test Preparation program and log in as much as you'd like. Students can take practice tests on 5000 vocabulary words or over 1000 math problems. Parents and Mentors can log in to monitor your scores - including seeing which vocabulary words that were missed. Interactive quizzes allow the test taker to retake and study as much as they want.




Sign Up Here for ACT Test & SAT Test Preparation.