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http://www.familyeducation.com/home/ For families of K-12 students. The site provides health references, classroom tips, games for students, seasonal advice (graduation, holidays, back to school etc.) and social tips.

(Zeahna Young) Discipline: Health Grade level: K-12 Web site address: http://www.learntobehealthy.org/ Description: This site is for educators, families, and communities, and is designed to share physical and mental health science concepts. It features games, activities, as well as lesson plans. It is separated with pages for educators and families, pages specifically for learning about health for teens and for younger kids, and there is also a store with workbooks and web-based kits for lesson plans.

MIA CORTEZ, EED 515, Thursday 7pm) 3. WHERE TEACHERS COME FIRST Discipline(s) - Health & Safety Target Audience - This specific weblink is for teachers of grades 3 through 5. Description - This specific weblink is a teachers' resource center for activities, lesson and unit plans and subject information appropriate for grades 3-5 health, Fitness and Safety. (MIA CORTEZ)

TINA SONG 3. Discipline Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, Technology Grade LevelK-12th grade Web Site Address http://www.brainpop.com/ DescriptionThis website is phenomenal! This website covers so many different subjects. When you click on the certain subject, there are other components or subtopics that are available. For example, when you click on English, 5 topics come out: Famous Authors & Book, Study & Reading Skills, Free Movies for English, Grammar, and Writing. When you click on one of those topics, more specific subtopics come out, such as adverbs, adjectives, antonyms, capitalization, etc. This website is designed to give definitions and clearer explanations of key term vocabulary used for that certain subject and lesson. This wonderful website also offers videos for students visually see a demonstration that can be shown during classroom instruction time.

• Brain Pop – Animated Educational Site for Kids (Jessica Schackne) o Disciplines – Science, Social Studies, Math, English, Art & Music, Health, & Technology o Grade Levels – Grades 3 and up o Web Site Address – www.brainpop.com o Description – This website provides fun and entertaining ways to make learning fun. You can choose a subject and then a category in that subject that may be a game, movie, etc…

• The Kids Know It Network (Jessica Schackne) o Disciplines – Spelling, Math, Science (animals, astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, human biology), Social Studies (geography, dinosaurs) o Grade Levels – Grades 2 and above o Web Site Address – www.kidsknowit.com o Description – This website provides information for children looking for information regarding any of the disciplines listed above. It also has games to go along with each topic. As a teacher I found the free educational movies and music especially useful.

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General Health Resources

BAM! Body and Mind

Discipline(s): Health

Grade Level(s): 4-8

Web Site Address: http://www.bam.gov/

Description: This website was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency from the US Department of Health and Human Resources. This extremely kid-friendly website provides students with information on how to make healthy, lifelong choices. They can find kid-friendly quizzes, games, and other tools to help them tackle subject that kids their age are interested in. This is also perfect for teachers, as it provides them with a multitude of fun, educational tools that can be used in the classroom! (Evelia Manzo)

California Healthy Kids
Discipline: Health
Grade Level: preK-12
Web Address: California Healthy Kids Resource Center provides credential candidates for the Multiple Subject Credential and Secondary Credential resources that comply with the California Commission on Teacher Credenialing Teaching Preparation Standards. Included are Sample Course Readings, Course Assignments, Student Health Data Sets, and Secondary Prevention Practice. There is an extensive Health Education Library (materials can be ordered and borrowed in a variety of subjects), Research-Validated Programs (including charts on Alcohol and Drugs, Sexual Health, Tobacco, and Violence research, charts, and PowerPoint presentations), School Health Laws (search engines in Health Instruction and School Health for Primary through High School levels), Trainings and Conferences (updated regularly for professional level conferences with links to sign up, and CD/DVD packages for continuing education training), Research and Resources (including an Evaluation of current California programs in downloadable pdf files and links to websites), and Assessment and Planning (includes the Official Department of Education list of approved food and beverages, California Health Education Content Standards, and surveys). (Edward B. Wahl)

Good Character
Discipline: Health, Social Science, Language Arts
Grade Level: preK-12
Web Address: http://goodcharacter.com
Description: This Character Education Web site is filled with valuable free resources that help children grow both emotionally and ethically. The lesson plans, guides, and essays are designed to help children want to make good choices in their lives. The resources available include K-12 lesson plans, a how-to guide to service learning, and topics for productive ethical discussions with children. Teaching guides are grouped by elementary, middle, and high school and offer discussion questions, writing assignments, and student activities for teachers to use in creating their own unique lesson plan. Teachers will also find a service learning manual and examples of service learning projects that teach kids academic content in a real life context. There are even tools to help coaches make the most of their character building potential in sports, character building activities for student involvement, ethics in the workplace scenarios for students to discuss, facilitation techniques for the teacher, links to other related resources, etc. (Jennifer Molfetta)

Nutrition Explorations
Discipline: Health
Grade Level: preK-5
Web Address: http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/index.asp
Description: Sponsored by the National Dairy Council, this site is all about Nutrition, why teach it, FAQs, age-appropriate concepts, and tips for choosing internet sites on nutrition. Sections for Parents, Educators and School Nutrition Professionals provide Nutrition Lessons with hands-on, interactive activities for students from pre-K through upper elementary grades, modeling the My Pyramid food groups. Kids can play Fun Food Games. Classroom Calendars contain helpful ideas and nutrition tips to encourage healthy eating at home and in school. The emphasis on school wellness with benefits of breakfast, lunch, milk and snacks in school explore connections from classroom to the cafeteria and connections from classroom to home. This site contains an Educators Home Page, Materials Catalog, Nutrition Bookshelf and Resources aimed at Teachers, Parents and Kids.(Shelley Singer)

Building Blocks
Discipline: Health
Grade Level: preK-2
Web Address: http://bblocks.samhsa.gov/default.aspx
Description: Designed by the U.S. DHHS, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Association (SAMHSA), this site is for parents, caregivers and teachers of children aged 3 to 6 as a tool and guide for making healthy decisions. You will find family activities, positive discipline ideas and games in the Family section. The Educators section has tools, lesson plans and curriculum development to access, download and print. Problem-solving and communication skills are reinforced through games, songs and activities in the Children section. Each month explores a themed topic in the What’s New box. The site also offers Materials, Products, Links, E-mail updates and Awards. All materials are in the public domain and do not need permission for reprinting. They have a link to their Digital Rights information page.(Shelley Singer)

Playnormous
Discipline: Health
Grade Level: 1-6
Web Address: http://www.playnormous.com
Description: Playnormous offers fun health games and activities that emphasize the food pyramid and healthy eating. This is a good website for raising children’s awareness about health. The games are very engaging and interactive, such as “Juice Jumble” that teaches kids about identifying whether beverages are 100% real fruit juice, some fruit juice and mostly water, and just sugar meant to artificially taste like juice. With each game, there are a variety of teacher activities and quizzes.(Charlotte Purcell)

Body and Mind Discipline: Health
Grade level: Pre-K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.bam.gov
Description: This site is owned and operated by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). It is geared towards younger children but could be utilized by children of all ages. At the top of the home page it has the links: Disease, Food & Nutrition, Physical Activity, Your Safety, Your Life, and Your Body. Once you click on any one of those links a new page appears. On the left side there is a list of links for different topics and in the center of the page is an extra bit of information that applies to the subject as a whole. Back on the home page there are links to games, surveys, quizzes, a calendar of upcoming events, tips for the classroom, and a daily challenge. Also, at the top of the page there is a search bar for students to do research within the CDC’s direct website. (Dave Miller)

Kidnetic Discipline: Fitness, Health
Grade level: Pre-K-5
Web Site Address: http://www.kidnetic.com
Description: This site has four main categories: Move, Eat, Talk, and Learn. The home page is just the portal to the links. The move link gives information about staying physically active, different activities that can be tried, and games. The Eat link provides recipes that children can make with their parents that are healthy. The Talk link allows children to send their parents an e-mail through the website about things they have discovered while on here. The key to the website as I see it is the last link for Learn. This provides a large amount of information about all of the topics listed above and allows the students to print a user-friendly version the information to take with them (especially if it is instructions to playing a game, for example). Also, there is a section for parents and different things they can do to keep their children healthy and engaged. (Dave Miller)

Dole 5 a Day Discipline: Health Grade level: 1-5 Web Site Address: http://www.dole5aday.com Description: This is a great site for teachers and students to learn facts about nutrition. For teachers it has great lesson plans and activities for the classroom and for students it has fun facts and at home activities including goal setting, healthy recipes and surveys. There is a Kids Cookbook with great healthy recipes in categories such as breakfast, drinks, salads, and pizza. There are also SuperKid Heroes and SuperKids Friends. (Michelle Karlin)

Kids Health
Discipline(s) : health
Grade level(s) : 1-8
Website address: http://kidshealth.org/
Description: kidshealth.org teaches children, teens, and adults about various aspects of health. It provides honest and factual information on safety, illnesses, managing emotions, the body, nutrition, and physical fitness. In addition to information, the site also offers recipes for children with dietary needs i.e. lactose intolerant, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, etc. This portion of the site could be valuable for parents, offering advice on positive eating habits to enforce within families, how to stock up on healthy foods, getting kids involved in their health, and being a role model. There is also a game closet and a list of different experiments they could conduct relating to health. This site would be a great tool to incorporate in the classroom or have students visit in their free time. Kidshealth.org can be viewed in English and Spanish.

Brain Pop Discipline: Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art and Music, Health, Technology Grade Level: k-8 Website: http://www.brainpop.com/ (submitted by Whitney Harrison) Description: This site makes learning all of the subjects interactive. It offers activities and games. Click on the subject of your choice. This will lead you to several subtopics. For example, under Science, learn about genetics, or famous scientists, or ecology, and so on. Once you select the general topic, you can choose from more specific topics. Become a member to enjoy all the activities and videos offered on this site.

"FATWORLD" Discipline: Health Grade Level: 6-12 Website: http://www.mypyramid.org

Description: This site provides a free interactive game (MAC and PC) that focuses on the politics of nutritioProxy-Connection: keep-alive CProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0

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It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S. The game's goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to exercise, but to demonstrate the complex, interwoven relationships between nutrition and factors like budgets, the physical world, subsidies, and regulations.  You can choose starting weights and health conditions, including predispositions towards ailments like diabetes, heart disease, or food allergies. You'll have to construct menus and recipes, decide what to eat and what to avoid, exercise (or not), and run a restaurant business to serve the members of your community.

Discipline: Health Grade: 7-9 http://www.mypyramid.gov

Description: This site provides help with meal planning, tracking meals and exercise. This site also includes information for pregnant and lactating women.

"Daily Calorie Count"

Discipline: Health Grade 7-12 http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov/planner/index.aspx

Description: Topic is Food Pyramid as it relates to calories for each meal during the day. The user types in the food eaten at each meal and the program shows the number of calories and the food groups that each food is listed under. The feedback from the software shows how many calories the user has had during the meal and how many are left for the day based on height, gender and current weight.

Kidsfood.org Discipline: Health Grade Level(s): PreK-12 Web Site Address: http://www.kidsfood.org/ Description: This website provides information about kids’ diet, nutritious food and recipes that are easy to cook and meanwhile healthy for kids. (Wan-hsin Chang)