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Children's Health on the Decline

This project challenges the middle school students to develop a realistic and doable one-week fitness plan through the study of obesity, exercise, culture, and nutrition.  The goal is to improve student's overall health through exercise and healthy food choices.  When the project  is completed, students can share their plans with other interested students.  Obesity is becoming one of the major health problems among children.  One in every five children is now designated as overweight or obese.  The main reason is that people are taking in more calories and sedentary lifestyle.  Children who are overweight are at higher risk for developing many other health problems.  Therefore, I think this would be a great opportunity for student 3rd ~ 8th graders to participate in the project.

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/topheal.html

http://www.explorespacenotdrugs.com/

KidsHealth: Created by medical experts of the Nemours Foundation.  This is a great search tool for kids in elementary schools because all the medical terms are now written in easy-to-understand language.  The search engine lets kids to search by word, phrase, or even ask questions, for example, why does eating ice cream give me a headache?

KidsClick! is a combination of search engine and web guide for articles research.  This is a good tool for grades 4-12 to search for health topics for research papers.  Students can select the articles based on the reading levels of each article indicated with the returned results.

Explore Space…not drugs: is sponsored by the NASA to encourage and motivate teens to stay away from drugs and alcohol.  Although it provides with limited types and information of drugs when comparing to the FDA website, the simplified language at Explore Space does make it easier for students to understand.  Fact sheet for each drug provides brief background on what the drug is, what it looks like, and what it does.  This would be a useful site for junior high or high school students.

GENERAL SEARCH TOOL FOR DEFINITIONS & FACTS

Word Central has a great online dictionary (http://www.wordcentral.com/aol/index.html) for elementary school students.  This dictionary has a special feature: A list of similar words would be provide when no entries could be found to match a query.  This could be a very useful tool for younger students. 

http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/lessons/

This incredible site is filled with over 100,000 lesson plans that has been collected and organized throughout the Internet.

http://www.schoolnotes.com/edgate/flashcards.html 

http://www.webpages4teachers.com/ 

Online flashcards?  What a great idea!  Now you can add a list of vocabularies, math problems, or science terms which help your students to review online.  This tool would be useful to any students who likes to study using flashcards.

Looking for an ad free website for your class website?  It also come with reference tools on aside such as dictionary and encyclopedia.  However, there is a one time $10 fee.