Cool+Websites+of+the+Week

COOL WEBSITES OF THE WEEK! #1 http://www.actionforhealthykids.org This focuses on child hood obesity and gives you guys as students tools to get active. Some students don’t get enough to eat or enough of the healthy, nutritious foods growing minds and bodies need. Others eat too many of the wrong things. Many kids don’t get to play or be active every day. This website is great for changing that around.

#2 http://www.pecentral.org/websites/kidsites.html Log It invites students, teachers, schools, classes, and parents to record their physical activity steps, miles, or kilometers online! Features include a virtual hike across the United States; feedback about daily goals; compare your progress to others; and you can view your weekly and monthly progress. Teachers must register their school and class first and then they can offer it to their students.

#3 http://www.acefitness.org/ Ace fit's website is a great tool for you guys to go to and learn great way to become more physically active. You will also be able to log in and make an account to help track your progress! Make sure you ask your parents before you make an account.

#4 http://www.pelinks4u.org/ You will be able to go on to this website and look around at all the cool resources it has to offer! You can even print worksheets out and keep track of all the unique activities you have done.

#5 http://www.aahperd.org American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. This website is full of tons of informational activities that isn't just sports it has many different options that you as a student may find of high interest.

#6 http://www.ashaweb.org/ The ASHA Council on Administrative Support for School Health and the National School Boards Association have released two documents that outline actions that School Administrators and School Boards can take to support a coordinated approach to health. I would like you as students who are in the middle of these documents, I would like you to read them and come back to class ready to discuss them.

#7 http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/Students This website is great because you can ask questions about health and wellness issues. Visitors simply send in their questions; they are answered by a team of experts from the Columbia University Health Question & Answer Service. So you will have expert analysis of health related questions and get answers for free!

#8 http://www.kidshealth.org/ Parents, children, teens, and professionals find answers to commonly asked health questions at this wonderful website. Topics include the benefits of different types of vitamins, the food pyramid, healthy children's recipes, how to read food labels, and keeping fit.

#9 http://www.exploratorium.com/sport/index.html This is a great site for students who love sports! It is a interactive site that addresses the science of sport-specifically baseball, cycling, skateboarding, and hockey.

#10 http://www.mypyramid.gov This is my favorite website of them all! It helps you recognize which foods are healthy and which foods are not healthy for you students. As well as eating the right variety of foods to fill your daily pyramid to make sure your getting enough vitamins and minerals. I also like how it helps you realize about foods they you may eat everyday that are unhealthy for you or you might be eating food on their that may be doing wonders for your body. Check it out and find what your pyramid says! media type="custom" key="9187304"