HEALTH SITES

Active-Ate is a collection of resources developed by the Queensland Health Tropical Public Health Unit Network to promote physical activity and nutrition in primary schools. Active-Ate is designed to increase knowledge and awareness of healthy eating and physical activity among students. It promotes the adoption of healthy eating practices and physically active lifestyles by children.

http://education.qld.gov.au/schools/healthy/active-ate/about.html

Simple ways for children to eat well, play well and keep healthy -

http://www.kidshealthandfitness.org.au/default.asp

Our theme - Food and Nutrition

To find teaching resources on this theme try a category search in the middle of the Curriculum Resources page at
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/ece/pid/235

and enter food as the search term.
http://url.edna.edu.au/aqJ8

Some recently added resources on this theme are:

Food theme page at Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/food.shtml

This Food Theme Page includes food words in other languages, food-related nursery rhymes, crafts, drawings and colouring worksheets, food groups and food pyramids, spelling sheets and puzzles, maths worksheets, and other printouts.

Go for 2 fruit and 5 vegetables: Kids only
http://www.gofor2and5.com.au/article.aspx?c=7&a=136&n=1

This website outlines the benefits of fruit and vegetables, suggests ways of increasing fruit and vegetable intake and provides easy recipes.
The Kids Only section provides food related activities designated lower primary, middle primary, and upper primary.

For a wider selection of more general resources including policy and programs try a search of the whole of the Early Childhood Education sector with nutrition as the search term. Use the standard search box in the top right corner of the ECE site.
http://url.edna.edu.au/vHRf

There is a Schools theme page 'Health and fitness' at
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/school_theme_pages/pid/1209

List of various healthy eating sites - http://www.primaryschool.com.au/scienceresults.php?kla=Science%20and%20Technology&unit=Eating%20Out

Education Department sites for Healthy Eating

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/pid/424?SearchMode=advanced&multiqueryText0=healthy+lifestyle&srcMetadata0=&multiqueryOp1=and&multiqueryText1=&srcMetadata1=dc_subject&multiqueryOp2=and&multiqueryText2=&srcMetadata2=categories&sr=ednaresources&sector=school&country=&th=scot&th=ated&fromWeb=true

Wellbeing plan for Aussie kids
http://www.csiro.au/science/wellbeingplanforkids.html

The Wellbeing Plan for Aussie Kids has been developed by the CSIRO to provide parents with information on healthy foods and habits. The aim of the Plan is to make eating well and being active a higher priority for all families. Fact sheets are provided on: drinking water, strengthening bones, vegetables and grains, healthy snacks, breakfast, recreational screen time, helping kids be active, a healthy role model and shopping smartly.

Nutrition Australia- "Falling in Love with Food - Value your self and your health" - www.nutritionaustralia.org

Interactive Body - www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/

This set of interactives from the BBC includes an organs game, a brain map, organs anatomy diagram, muscle game, muscle anatomy diagram, skeleton game, skeleton anatomy diagram, puberty demo, nervous system game, and a senses challenge.

Smoking Prevention / Cessation Lessons - www.smokingprevention.co.uk/smoking%20lesson%20plans.htm

Lessons on smoking prevention for K-6 students. Topics include the effects of smoking on the lungs and health, how cigarettes are made, analysis of why people smoke, and attempts to control smoking in public places.

Health - Kids Health - www.cyh.com/cyh/kids/index.html

Easy to read information for children and parents from the South Australian Child and Youth Health unit which is funded by the Department of Human Services. Topics include danger, asthma, bullies, divorce, dreams, exercise, friendship, getting on with the family, grief, no friends, peer groups, rest and sleep, starting school, teeth, what is a family, and your food.

Simple Steps to Better Dental Health - Fun for Kids www.simplestepsdental.com/SS/ihtSS/r.WSIHW000/st.35080/t.35082/pr.3.html

Simple Steps to Better Dental Health is a joint project of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and the health insurance company, Aetna. This part of the website includes information and activities for young students. Information for older students is available from a menu bar.

How the Body Works - http://kidshealth.org/misc_pages/bodyworks/bodyworks.html

Designed for the younger child, this site contains animations about various parts of the body: the eye, ear, respiratory system, digestive tract and the muscles. The user can control the screens and parts of the animation can be repeated. The animations are accompanied by sounds in some cases. The site is sponsored by the Nemours Foundation.