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Zis Boom Bah
This is a fun, interactive site where students can learn healthy eating habits. There is a section for teachers and parents to help maximize the gaming side of the kids’ site.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Health/Fitness, Uncategorized, Videos | Posted on October 25, 2011
iPad Apps for Physical Education Teachers
comes from the blog, “The Physical Education Teacher.”
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Health/Fitness, Lesson Planning | Posted on May 3, 2011
Energy Balance 101.Com In the classroom or on the field–get started right here with standards-based lessons and hands-on activities to bring Energy Balance to life for your students.
45 Germ Fighting Tips for Teachers has practical ideas for helping keep our students well and in school each day.
Junk Food Science
Junk Food Science helps primary and secondary pupils understand the science linking health with diet, and inspires discussion around the options available to help improve the nation’s eating habits.
Food for Thought from Sesame Street
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: EATING WELL ON A BUDGET is a bilingual,
multimedia program designed to help support families who have
children between the ages of 2 and 8 and are coping with uncertain
or limited access to affordable and nutritious food.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Health/Fitness | Posted on November 11, 2010
Kids Health.Org is a site full of information useful for health classes or as a supplement to physical education. Topics are interesting and current. Students can listen to content in English and Spanish.
Recipes for Kids Challenge
Let’s Move! toward healthier food in schools with the Recipes for Healthy Kids competition. First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, in association with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is challenging school nutrition professionals, chefs, students, parents and interested community members to create tasty, healthy, exciting new recipes for inclusion on school lunch menus across the country.
Winning teams will win $12,000 in prizes and be invited to prepare their nutrition-packed meals alongside White House chefs.
Know It All.Org is a fairly new web portal for K-12 education. It has a collection of fun, interactive websites for K-12 students, teachers and parents.
Nourish Interactive Nutrition Games for Students
Teachers and students can sign up for free accounts to play these entertaining and educational games about good nutrition.
The Lunch Box.Org – This web site is the brainchild of “The Renegade Lunch Lady”, Chef Ann Cooper, a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America. When interviewed by Education World, Cooper says, “I have found that if you offer children real, tasty food, instead of sugary snacks, they will enjoy it and ask for more. But we also need to establish their relationship with food. Creating hands-on experiential learning through cooking and gardening classes will help them be more in tune with real food and its benefits. Making a change toward a system that supports that certainly will cost more money than the current system; however we’re going to either pay now to fix the system or pay later with higher health care costs.”
The Lunch Box is a web-based portal that enables all schools and school districts to make a healthy difference for all children in America by providing relevant information and the pragmatic tools necessary to make good food available for all kids.
The Lunch Box is in beta mode. When fully functional, it will provide the multi-faceted approach necessary to transition any processed food based K-12 school meal program to a whole foods environment where food is procured regionally and prepared from scratch for the student population. As a free resource, The Lunch Box will provide the essential “tools” for examining, learning about, and implementing this type of healthy meal program. From the “why” to the “how to,” The Lunch Box will offer a complete menu of choices for those seeking to implement program change in their schools and districts.
(Photo from laptoplunches.com)
Laptop Lunches.Com is a lunchbox system for students (adults) with the mission of providing a nutritious, environmentally friendly lunch system. Founded by two moms, the web site has a store that sells the lunchbox system, but there is so much more. Included are weekly lunch menus – very healthy and very creative.
Watch Know Educational Videos
WatchKnow is both a resource for users and also a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.
WatchKnow is now officially launched, after being developed for over a year. Whether you’re a student, a parent, a teacher, or just someone who cares about the education of children, you can now use our service and get involved to make it even better. Please sign up! (But did you know that you can add new videos to our system without signing up? They’ll have to be approved first.)
There is no better online cause than the future of our children. And just imagine how fantastic it would be if there were a resource online we could go to, or send our kids to, that would explain every topic they study in school instantly and reliably. Many of the resources needed for such a site already exist online; they just need to be organized.
Food – A Fact of Life Web Site has several interactive games for students including:
Make a Balanced Plate, Make a Healthy Lunchbox, Unmuddle the Meals, and Where do my Meals Come From? Some of the games are categorized by age group.
In conjunction with this web site, Promethean features flip chart resources at:
Promethean Planet
Scrub Club.Org
Each year, more than 164 million school days are lost due to illness*, which could be greatly reduced with proper handwashing. That’s why NSF International created the Scrub Club® – to raise awareness about the benefits of handwashing and ultimately improve the health of children and reduce school sick days. The Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE) has partnered with NSF on this groundbreaking initiative.
Scrub Club® to the Rescue
The Scrub Club® program is the first of its kind – a fun, interactive and educational Web site (www.scrubclub.org) that teaches children the proper way to wash their hands. The site consists of a Webisode interactive games, educational music, downloadable activities for kids, educational materials for teachers and program information for parents.
My Safe Home.Net is a health/safety site showcasing various areas of the home and ways to be safe. Students click on a room and then a topic. A short video teaches safe home habits.
Fantastic Food Challenge is a game site from Michigan State University with games and interactive challenges for students involving health and nutrition.
Brain Pop has created an informational video to help calm fears surrounding the H1N1 flu outbreak.
Fuel Up to Play
What if you had the power to help make your school even better than it already is? Well, you do.
Welcome to Fuel Up to Play 60. It’s a new youth program sponsored by National Dairy Council and the National Football League designed to empower students to take action for their health and improve their school environment. And the best part? YOU can help make a difference. All you have to do is eat healthy, play at least 60 minutes a day and participate in fun activities in and out of school. You know, good things.
Additionally it is a chance to get involved in a nationwide competition between participating students and schools. The Fuel Up to Play 60 competition is an opportunity for you to make long-term healthy changes while competing to win prizes for both you and your school. You will track your healthy eating, physical activity, and participation in Fuel Up to Play 60 activities as well as refer friends, take pop quizzes and answer challenges to earn points towards exciting prizes. The competition starts on October 15, 2009. Learn more here.
Kids Health Web Site has links for games, movies, and topics such as feelings, illness & injury, kid talk, cooking & recipes, staying safe, health problems, and a kids medical dictionary of medical words.
Cool Food Planet is a great size to use for nutrition/healthy lifestyle units. Designed for kids, the web site has a nutrition quiz, tips for brain fit, how to have great teeth, reading food labels, safe foods, building healthy habits, eating out, and body fit.
Clorox Classrooms.Com
As we prepare to battle the flu, Clorox has lesson plans for teachers, games and handouts for students, germ buster badges, and printable posters for the classroom