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Health, Nutrition and Physical Education
Smoking
& Your Health:
http://scienceu.fsu.edu/fl/content/
GRADE LEVEL: 3-8
CONTENT: A+
Science, Tobacco & You is a multidisciplinary, multimedia, science curriculum resource developed by the Center for Integrating Research and Learning at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University.
AESTHETICS: A+
This well-designed site features informative graphics and a pleasing layout. Users will need a Java-enabled browser.
ORGANIZATION: A+
The content is organized into four major areas and easily navigated from the left-side menu. Each area has graphical links to the detailed information. There is also a Navigation Help section.
REVIEW: A+
Science, Tobacco & You educates students on the issues of tobacco with the hope of reducing tobacco use. Resources are available for teachers and students. Engaging activities help students explore the harmful effects of tobacco on the body, strategies for handling peer pressure, and how advertising promotes tobacco usage. Teachers will find a wealth of information in the Teacher/Student Guidebook, which can be downloaded, and lesson plans from the Best Practices 2001 competition. Included is an area for sharing lesson plans with other teachers, a bulletin board for discussions, frequently asked questions, and tobacco-related news stories
http://www.kidfood.org/ is a site with on line activities, lesson plans and links to related hunger and nutritional resources.
http://pe.central.vt.edu/ is the “Ultimate web site for Health and Physical Education Teachers”- it contains a gold mine of lesson and assessment ideas, links to interactive instructional materials and best practices. It has extensive links to the top web sites in PE- including all major and minor sports.
www.schools.eastnet.ecu.edu/pitt/ayden/physed.htm has a collection of lesson plans for P.E. with links to many resources on topics like gymnastics, sports and fitness, as well as non traditional activities for P.E.
Values: Making Choices for Life
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001709/
GRADE LEVEL: 3-8
CONTENT: A
This site was created by fourth, fifth, and sixth graders, at Kapolei Elementary and Kapolei Middle School in Hawaii for the ThinkQuest Junior competition. It focuses on "values that most people believe to be particularly important in life."
AESTHETICS: A
The site, set in frames, uses a consistent background with cute graphics and animations to illustrate the narrative. QuickTime Player is required.
ORGANIZATION: A
A left-side menu gives access to the various areas of the site. Each area has its own submenu and a link back to the home page.
REVIEW: A
Values: Making Choices for Life helps youngsters understand, care about, and act on ethical and citizenship values. Teachers could use this as a supplement to their character education curriculum, or parents may want to go through the activities with their children or let them use the site independently. Some of the values included are respect, responsibility, cooperation, honesty, and environmental awareness. Each value is defined in several languages and links to a story that illustrates the value; You Make the Call gives students a simulation in which they must make choices based on the situation. Moral Combat Theater is a set of humorous video clips that illustrates the battle that kids sometimes face in order to do the right thing. Included are open-ended questions designed to make kids think and Ho'oponopono, an ancient Hawaiian process for resolving conflicts.
RELATED REVIEWS:
Social Sciences: Life Skills
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/soc_sci.shtml#Life%20Skills
Chemicals,
the Environment, and You
A National Institutes of Health curriculum supplement, free online.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2004/r1104-10.shtml
URL:
http://science.education.nih.gov/customers.nsf/
MSEnvironment?OpenForm
REVIEW: A+
This is a ready to use module for middle school science and health teachers. It
covers broad general science topics such as the chemical composition of all
matter, chemicals in the environment, human health and medicine, individual
variation/susceptibility, risk assessment and management, and scientific
methods. The module contains six standards-based lessons that focus on the
science of toxicology and introduce students to the ways scientists learn about
and measure how chemicals can both help and harm human health. In addition to
the introduction and how to implement the module, the Teacher’s Guide includes
the lesson plans with instructions for use, handouts and transparencies,
references and resources and a library of all the materials in .pdf format for
downloading and printing. Additionally, there are Web-based student activities
to complement each lesson such as an interactive periodic table, a dose response
experiment and much more.
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