Internet Source for Students: interactive, educational

  BAM! – CDC

 Summary: This website not only provides great information for students, but also is easy to understand and navigate. This website provides many interesting activity ideas and relatable characters. This website is credible and free for everyone to access, there are even apps you can download from the App Store or Google Play. This website can help students demonstrate decision-making skills because they are choosing activities that are best fit for them. This provides great information and resources for students with special needs and how they can be active. A specific helpful tab is the physical activity tab on the home page. Here students can learn more about a variety of sports to see if one might interest them. For some students, they might feel pressured or get a biased view about a particular sport from their peers, but this website provides some basic knowledge so students can make their own decision if playing a sport is of interest to them. These physical activities don’t just include sports specifically, they also include activities like walking a dog and yoga. It’s very important for students to be able to access resources that allow them to find activities that motivate them to be active for 60 minutes every day. The physical activity section also includes information about how people with asthma and disabilities can overcome their challenges and rise to the top, which is very important for students to understand that not every student will have the same challenges to overcome, but we can work together as a class to help support each other to be active. There’s also a link to free app that allows students to keep track of their dining decisions, which is also a great way to help students be active; food gives us energy to be active!

https://www.cdc.gov/bam/activity/cards.html

 

Integration: A great way to integrate this website into other subject areas is to incorporate this into science. Students can learn about the immune system and germs through a wellness unit. For example, being healthy is very important for students, this means taking care of our bodies in a variety of ways. This means being physically active, eating right and learning about how white blood cells are dedicated to protecting your body from infections and other diseases that threaten your body’s good health. This link: https://www.cdc.gov/bam/diseases/immune/learnhow.html provides a great example to pull from because it shows students how white blood cells are like super heroes defending the immune system from arch enemies (diseases that threaten our health and make us sick). It also gives a data base of multiple arch enemies so students can learn all about different diseases. This would be a great opportunity to print out each enemy and have students go online to do more research and then create a poster about what they discovered. As a class we can also go over what helps us fight these enemies and prevent getting sick and taking care of our bodies.

 

 

 Health standards

NHES 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health

PHW 5.5.3: List healthy option to health-related issues or problems.

NHES 2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

PHW. 2.8.7 Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

Core Content Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.7 Making connection between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of text, identifying where each version reflects specific description and directions in the text.

 

Science Standards: ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions

• Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas for a problem’s solutions to other people. (secondary)

 

 

 

Internet Source for Teachers: informative, reliable

 

Hyper link: Go Noodle  

Summary: I think Go Noodle is an interesting way to have students be physically active in class. This could be used as an interactive class teaching method that benefits kinesthetic learners the best because it teaches exercising and relaxation activities. This could not only be used to have fun twist in learning contents, but also help students be active. This website encourages students to learn that there are other resources even in technology that could help students be physically active. There is a paid version that allows you the ability to create your own quizzes and gives you access to 100 printable learning extensions.

 

Integration: This website is interactive teaching tool that explores many different subjects like math, science and even spelling. This website has great numerous and various contents and lesson plans for students to explore. For example, most recently updated lesson plan includes skeletons and bones which connects not only to health and body, but also with Halloween. The learning can be assessed by monitoring the interactive activity and print outs to follow up. This website can be used as an introduction to the subject or content by hooking students to get up and move and spur interest in the topic. This helps to include all students with different learning styles compared to traditional education system where many kinesthetic learners had disadvantage of. This website has great visuals that helps visual learners, and songs and dance moves that helps verbal and kinesthetic learners.

 

 Health standards

 

NHES 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

PHW 3.5.2: Locate resources from home, school, and community that proved valid health information.

NHES 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion.

PHW 1.2.2: Recognize that there are multiple dimensions of health.

Core Content Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why and how key events occur)

 

Internet Source for Parents: informational, resourceful

 

 

Get Active | Let’s Move!

Summary: Motivation in getting outside for at least 60 minutes a day (recommended amount for kids) Parents can use this helpful website resource because it is clear, organized and informative. It provides helpful tips to help motivate kids to get outside and be active; for example simple activities such as walking around the block after dinner, no sitting during TV commercials and encouraging kids to join a sports team or try a new physical activity. I think a huge part of motivation for students is having a support system in place to help them to generate and complete physical activity goals and by setting a good example for them to follow.  There are helpful tabs as well that provide facts for parents/guardians, and a tab that walks through five simple steps/strategies for families, schools and communities to help kids be even more active, eat better and grow up being healthy. The full action plan is available free online for parents as well which makes for a great resource to help to encourage kids to get active in new and creative ways so that being active for around 60 minutes a day doesn’t get boring or too repetitive for kids. Also, in this generate this is more important now more than ever for kids to be active with the advancement of technology; kids are sitting inside playing video games, watch TV or are on devices such as cell phones, iPad and computers.

–I would definitely link this on my classroom websites for parents to access or provide some of the information in a Spanish/English newsletter sent home with students. I would show my students this website and talk to them about how they can go on the website with their parents so they can learn together new ways to be active.

 

Health Standards

NHES 7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks and standard

PHW 7.5.1: Identify responsible personal health behaviors.

NHES 5: students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.    PHW 5.5.5: Choose a healthy option when making a decision.