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YouTube for EducatorsYouTube offers a variety of free services that educators can use to facilitate classroom instruction, including access to more than 500,000 educational videos, limited access to non-educational content, and custom playlists that eliminate ads. | Multimedia | |
Wellness KitFree nutrition and fitness program for your school. Kit is designed to inspire students to "get up and play" for 60 minutes a day and to "fuel up" with the foods kids don't get enough of. | Multimedia | |
Websites Stress Diet and Exercise for National Nutrition MonthWe recommend three websites for lesson plans and activities that reinforce the theme for 2012 National Nutrition Month, which stresses the importance of making informed food choices and developing good habits in eating and physical activity. | Lesson Plan | |
Tips for Teachers Cards - Child Welfare ConcernsFree downloadable 6x8-inch laminated cards provide ready information about behaviors that threaten the health and well-being of students. From American Public University. | Printable | |
The Learning NetworkThe Learning Network publishes a new lesson plan every weekday during the school year. Two recent lesson plans investigate back-to-school shopping and the 2012 election campaign. | Lesson Plan | |
The 12 Brain Rules, IllustratedIn this interactive website based on his book Brain Rules, John Medina describes how the brain works best and what we can do to improve the workplace and the classroom. | Multimedia; Printable | |
Test Prep & Review Strategies for Grades 6-8Help students in grades 6-8 prepare for and take tests of all kinds. | Themed Package | |
Test Prep & Review StrategiesThese resources provide solutions to common test prep and test-taking problems. Help students relax and gain confidence, study more effectively, perform better on tests, and most importantly...increase learning. | Themed Package | |
TED-Ed Video LibraryThis growing library of educational videos represents collaborations between teachers and animators. Classroom teachers can use, tweak, or rewrite lessons, or create their own lessons, based on any useful educational video. | Multimedia | |
Teaching Students to Prevent BullyingCurriculum Resources Address Identifying, Confronting and Stopping Bullying | ||
Student Survey: Name-Calling & Verbal BullyingStudents can take a confidential survey intended to make their school a safer place. | Printable; Tool | |
Stop Bullying NowFrom the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this web site provides information from various government agencies on how kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and others in the community can prevent or stop bullying. | Multimedia | |
Southern Poverty Law CenterOrder your free copy of the movie Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History, a documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies. | Multimedia | |
Reach Out Now: Help Prevent Underage Alcohol UseThis school-based initiative for fifth- and sixth-grade students provides interactive science-based materials to help increase awareness about alcohol and its impact on the brain and body. | Lesson Plan; Multimedia; Tool | |
RACE - Are We So Different?Using this website, students in middle school and high school can examine concepts of race from perspectives of history, human variation, and personal experience. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Quiz | |
Promoting Physical Fitness for Grades 6-8Classroom resources that reinforce the benefits of physical fitness for grades 6-8. | Themed Package | |
Promoting Physical FitnessGet active, stay fit and have fun doing it with sports, games, and activities described in the following lesson plans and resources. | Themed Package | |
Prevent Blindness AmericaThis site offers The Children’s Sports Safety Guide and Fact Sheet Resource Page. The guide - for parents, teachers, school nurses, and coaches - provides information on eye health and safety for children. | Fact Sheet | |
Popcorn ActivitiesOctober is National Popcorn Poppin' Month, and we offer a variety of fun, creative activity ideas for multiple subjects and all grade levels. | Themed Package | |
Pets in the ClassroomIf your school allows pets, you might want to consider the resources we've gathered for you. | Themed Package | |
PEC: Classroom Teacher/Integrated Lesson Plans for Physical EducationThis site is designed to help classroom teachers who want to use physical activity to teach academic content. The activities can be taught in the classroom or in an outdoor play area. Search by subject area and sort by age. | Lesson Plan | |
Outdoor Action (OA) Guide to Map & Compass (Part 1)This site provides a good tutorial on how to use a compass and map, with plenty of illustrations for map skills and orienteering instruction. | Background Reading | |
NIH Curriculum Supplement SeriesThis resource from the National Institutes of Health includes teacher guides and lesson plans on the science behind seventeen health topics, free print materials, professional development webinars, and more. | Works4Me | |
National Park Foundation’s Electronic Field TripGrades 4-8 can learn about various topics (e.g., civil rights, climate change) through electronic field trips to national parks. There are more than a dozen EFTs archived on the site, each with an on-demand video and related lessons. | Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)A themed package of multimedia, printables, and web sites geared toward the improved health and physical education in children. | Themed Package |
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