Alcohol Awareness
US Department of Heath and Human Services
The US Department of Health provides a Hyperlinking article about Alcohol Awareness. Links include information specifically directed to teens and several Web casts and sites for streaming video pertaining to alcohol awareness education.
Alcohol Free Children
A site dedicated to helping children make responsible decisions when dealing with alcohol. This site has a statistics, regional information and an area dedicated to parents and teachers. The educators section contains lesson ideas, articles and much more.
Chemical Dependency Center
This is a fantastic site for statistical information about alcohol abuse and consumption. The site provides information and answers to many questions for school grades 7th and up.
The Marin Institute
The Marin Institute gives students a great resource whiling doing research for alcohol awareness. This site provides not only statistical and factual information but also gives information about ongoing and past lawsuits to the alcohol industry. The information on this site is for older middle school and high school students.
Diabetes Awareness Month
American Diabetes Association
This site will provide information on prevention, detection and details about events for the month of November. Also find great recipes and links to other resources on Diabetes.
CDC's Diabetes Program
On this site, several links will elaborate on how to teach about Diabetes and then give more links for further information. The educational section is chalked full of lesson ideas.
George Washington Hospital
This site is written in Spanish. Find resources for bilingual and world language Spanish students on Diabetes
International Diabetes Foundation
November 14, 2004 is National Diabetes Day. Find out what is going on in the world to recognize this day and how you or your students can participate. There is a Spanish speaking site for bilingual and world language Spanish speaking students.
Youth Zone
The National Diabetes Association has a Web site dedicated to young people. This site will define, explain and give resources specifically for young people. Great for elementary school and middle school students.
General Sites for Health & PE
Nutrition Explorations
This site is divided into areas designed especially for educators, parents, schools, and kids. It provides comprehensive information on nutrition and great ideas that will make learning about nutrition interesting.
PE Central
If you have a great PE idea, then you should visit this site to submit your idea and to see what other teachers are doing to bring physical education into the limelight. You will find research studies on how physical education is helping students perform better academically, student quotes about their PE experiences, and much more.
Dole 5 a Day
This site is a must see for health and PE teachers. Great ideas for teaching nutrition, interactive games, musical games, and kids cookbooks all can be accessed by visiting this site.
Health and Fitness in a Busy World
Fitting in Fitness: Exercise Options for Busy People
This online article offers ideas for exercise in a busy society. Find information about types of exercise and how to still keep fit while keeping up a hectic schedule.
Nutricounter
This site acknowledges winter being an excuse not to exercise. Provided in this online article are tips and suggestions on how to stay fit during the winter months.
The President's Challenge
This national program challenges children, youth, adults and seniors to get fit. This site gives advice on how to set up a fitness schedule for busy people. Suggestions on how to stay fit with a commitment of 30 minutes a day.
Jumping Rope
Stay fit by jumping rope! This site provides pictures and descriptions of different ways of jumping rope. Find out different techniques while learning which muscles are being toned and how jumping rope can be a fun cardiovascular activity. Also provided is a drop down menu to several different types of cardiovascular activities.
The American Council on Exercise
The American Council on Exercise provides links and information about physical fitness and general health. Online learning centers, online forums and specific information for children are just some of the information provided on this site.
Healthy Eating
Kids'
Health for Kids
great site that written just for kids to learn about dealing with
feelings, staying healthy, or just everyday illnesses that kids are
curious to learn about.
Nutrition
Cafe
Five different on-line educational games that teach students about
nutrition and food value.
Moo
Milk
Looking for a great way to spread the word about calcium and promoting
good nutrition. Loaded with activities!
Kellogg'sŽ
Planet KTM
The place to find a world of cereal sensations. Find a lot of information
on nutritious breakfasts here. Take various tutorials, play nutrition
games, and ask questions about Kelloggšs products and nutrition.
The
North Dakota Wheat Commission
a Web-site that teaches kids the importance of wheat and the nutritional
value of wheat. Download coloring and activity books too!
Dole
5 a day
Sponsored by the Dole Foods Corp., this Web-site has loads of nutritional
information about fruits and vegetables. A Just for Kids section has
information on all sorts of fruits and veggies. Plus, therešs an encyclopedia
that gives detailed information. Educators can order a CD and download
resources for classroom use.
Kids
Food Cyber Club
Just the place for kids, teachers and parents. Kids can find out nutritional
information; teachers can Find out about lesson plans for this site
and related web sites on kids, education, nutrition, and the Internet.
Parents can Learn about activities you can do with their children
to help them eat well and stay healthy.
The
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
And finally, the food and drug administrationšs answer to nutritional
information. This site is for serious inquiry into food and nutrition.
However, one golden nugget for the everyday consumer is the Kids,
Teens, and Educators section. A quiz, coloring book, and food safety
tips are among the gems hidden here.
Human Body Simulations
A Look inside the Human Body
This is a good site to understand how the body works. It is in an easy-to-read format with pictures for visual learners. It explores the muscular, skeletal, circulatory, nervous, immune, digestive, and respiratory systems.
The Virtual Body
This is an interactive site for students to learn about parts of the body. They can also put together the skeleton, heart, bones, digestive tract, and brain. There are narratives for each of the body parts and games for each area of the body.
How the Body Works
This is a great site for students to learn how the body works with all its different systems. There are movies to see and hear about different body parts. The site includes the skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive and urinary systems and promises six more soon. There are also games, word finds and quizzes for students to play.
Teaching with the Human Body
This site is for teachers only. It has many ideas for games, lesson plans, and activities for the different systems of the body such as the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems and so many more!
Your Gross and Cool Body
Wendy the Worm and her friend Dora explore gross body sounds and body parts. There are sounds to accompany the facts. There is also a place to email Wendy and Dora with comments or questions. It is an interesting and very informative site.
Surfing Inside the Human Body
This a comprehensive site for exploring the human body. It has annotated pictures and short explanations to describe the pictures. There are also quizzes the students can take where immediate feedback is given.
Iditarod
www.iditarod.com
The official site of the Iditarod race. The official 2005 race begins on March 5th. Log on daily to see live Web cams, pictures, quotes and the latest statistics and logs from the mushers.
Dogsled
This site gives you all sorts of information about the Iditarod race and other races like it. Find information about the dogs, the mushers and even how to join a live race! There is a specific area for kids, audio and video clips and live weather updates from all of the dogsled races.
Education World and the Iditarod Web Cam
This site provides an article about ways to use Web cams in the classroom. One way mentioned is how a teacher used the Iditarod Web cam in her classroom to incorporate several different subject areas and skills throughout her curriculum. Great reading and it does contain a link to the specified teachers' resources.
Scholastic Iditarod Race Across Alaska
Scholastic provides several lesson plan ideas for the Iditarod. Many links and activities are provided with curriculum concepts and mapping.
The Iditarod ... Where men are men and women win!
Women do compete and win the Iditarod! This site has the history of women in the Iditarod along with basic facts and a lot of unknown information about the Iditarod.
Nutrition
Neat Solutions
Neat Solutions provides a Web site dedicated to providing informational and fun activities and lesson plans for teachers, parents, and people in the food service industry. Most lesson plans are provided in Spanish as well as English and teachers can find several activities for all age groups.
Food and Nutrition Information Center
This government-sponsored site provides articles and links for parents, teachers and teens. Students doing research papers can find several different resources about nutrition and different topics surrounding nutrition. Parents and teachers will find valuable resources for school and home.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This WebQuest will allow early elementary students to explore the food pyramid and proper eating habits while working individually and in small groups.
Education World
Education World again provides a great resource for young learners. This site gives extensive resources and ideas for nutrition while focusing on cross-curricular activities. Links are also provided for additional resources, music and clipart.
Instructional Materials in Nutrition
This site contains "Theme Pages" which focus on specific topics within Nutrition. Students and teachers will find curricular resources to help learn about Nutrition.
Olympics
USOC
Online
This site contains general information about the Olympics as well
as specific information about the Nagano Games.
U.S.
Ski Team Home Page
Visit the official website of both the US Ski and Snowboard Teams.
United
States Luge Association
Visit the official website of the US Luge Team; view pictures, get
the latest news updates.
Yahoo!
Skating Page
Learn about the history of figure skating; get the latest information
on figure skating events taking place at Nagano.
The Olympics - 2002
International Olympic Committee
This site has information about past, present, as well as future Olympics.
ESPN: The Olympics
This page has results, articles, pictures and interviews and is updated daily.
CNN Sports Illustrated Olympics site
From Sports Illustrated, daily updates will allow the reader to keep track of medals won, along with news articles, pictures, etc.
CBS Sportsline
This site focuses on the sports in the Winter Olympics. It does have some history of the events as well as maps of where things will take place within Utah.
Physical Fitness and Sports
The President's Council on
Physical Fitness and Sports
Education World
Education World offers a full roster of stories, lessons, resources, and activities focused on PE!
Original Proclamation from President Bush
The White House site has provided, online, the original proclamation by President Bush declaring the month of May as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
A Physical Education How-To from the Government
This site gives educators ideas for Physical Fitness month. Located here are links, letters, concepts, and ideas for the entire month.
Crayola
Crayola Crayon's Web site provides activity and arts and crafts ideas for Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Find links to other sites, printable thank you notes for PE teachers and coaches and even e-cards.
Soccer
360
Soccer
An exhaustive soccer site, 360 Soccer contains current soccer news,
coverage of the major competitions, world rankings, and training tips.
It also has hundreds of links to various soccer sites. Older soccer
fans will appreciate its coverage of the defunct NASL team The Cosmos.
Big
Soccer.com
This section of the site contains bulletin boards where fans can post
their opinions about US soccer today. Scroll down to the "USA" section
to see the discussion about the National Team. A word of warning-though
profanity is NOT allowed on the site, some of the fans still are a
bit, exuberant, in their discussion
U.S.
Soccer Online
The Official Web Site of the U.S. Soccer Federation, this site allows
you to find out just about anything about our men's and women's national
teams, including the player pool, statistics for the last 2 years,
analysis, schedule, and news.
SoccerCoaching.net
This is a great coaching resource with articles, polls and resources.
One of the most interesting features is called "The Situation" where
an on-field scenario is given, the user is asked to respond, and the
responses are posted on the site.
Sports Medicine & Injuries
Southern
California Orthopedic Institute
A Web site with tons of information about the anatomy of sports as
well as details about sports-related injuries. Includes great illustrations.
Sports
Medicine
About.com's collection of links on anatomy, injuries, prevention,
etc.
SportsMedicine.com
A collection of links to sites dealing with various athletic injuries.
Categories include ankles, knees and shoulders.
The
Weekend Warrior
This Web site is the online companion to the radio show of Dr. Stuart
Zeman. Links to how to treat various injuries, visuals, and an interactive
"Ask Dr. Zeman" section round out the site.
Stress (Reducing Stress)
Learning Meditation
This site includes methods, techniques, and tips for reducing steps in your life. There are even guided meditations (you'll need Real Player). Also included are recommended books and articles.
Stress Reduction Guide
This guide explores stress caused by and causing school violence. Identifying the problem, and then exploring solutions and offering advice, the included handbook provides many resources for teachers and schools wrestling with stress and violence.
Identifying and Reducing Stress
This article includes tips, checklists, and other useful information to help manage and reduce stress. Lots of links and online resources are included for further reading and support.
Anxiety in Children, Teen Stress, & Teenage Depression
This article discusses stress in children, specifically how it affects teens and pre-teens. The article also gives concrete advice for helping students who are experiencing stress. Links at the bottom of the page offer strategies ranging from Sound Therapy to Yoga.
Women in
WWWomen's
Sports Guided Tour WebRing
With this web ring, the user can move between web sites on women's
sports-related topics using a guided virtual tour. The sites are incredibly
varied and give the user a great taste of all the different ways women
participate in sports.
The
Official Site of the Women's National Basketball Association
The WNBA has captivated the nation with its tough play and fierce
competition. This site has anything a fan would like to know, from
news stories, to team rosters, to features on players.
