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Bibliographic Citation of Online Resources

AAHPERD - American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

NASPE - National Association for Sport and Physical Education

Also check the links at our Lesson Plans and Activities page.

Health Issues | Physical Education | Probes and Probeware

 

Health - We list general sites only, unless we have starred them as exceptional resources

• Access Excellence - from the National Health Museum - includes an activities exchange, student resources, teacher information - includes biology and bio-ethics
• Adios Barbie - all about body image and the media - just one of the resources you can find at Just Think (click on Resources)
• BAM! Body and Mind - from the Centers for Disease Control - elementary and middle school style - articles on topics of interest to kids and curriculum: stress, diseases, exercise - includes interactive activities
• Character Education - portal of links from MindOH! Foundation
• Discovery Health - covers current health stories and issues as well as on-going topics - research information as well
• Edutopia - contains links to information about Emotional Intelligence - all are well researched - includes pedagogy and video reviews of theory
• HealthWorld Online - resources for many health topics
• Internet Public Library Teenspace - powerful resources for teens
• Internet Public Library KidSpace - elementary and early middle grades
• Omni - from the UK, a search engine for locating high quality information in the areas of Health and Medicine - Omni maintains the database so searches are resolved quickly - try a search for a disease to test the system
•  Selling Tobacco - this is just one lesson from an excellent resource for media awareness education
• Talking with Kids About Tough Subjects - sex, violence, HIV, more
• World Health Organization - currents news and disease/health issues resources

Physical Education - including sports medicine

• Athlete's Diary - this is software for trainers and athletes - using Mac or PC, it maintains a detailed training log
• Fitness Testing - links to vast library of information
• Gatorade Sports Science Center - focus upon student athletes - the site also has a virtual tour of their research labs
• Meet Manager - for track and field - software (with hardware support) for all aspects of a complex meet, including timing, reporting, seeding
• Myjjk - online forum for Track & Field - injuries, sports, much more - teachers, coaches, athletes
• PE Central - vast resources for Health and Physical Education - somewhat commercial
• The President's Challenge - national fitness testing program - links to tests, data
• Sponet - search engine for articles dealing with Sports Medicine and general health topics - select the British flag for English
• Sports Media - scroll down the opening window to find links for Physical Education teachers - lessons, topics, articles
• TimeTronics - ever wonder how they tell who won a fast race? - results can be digitized using ARJ software

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E. Sky-McIlvain 7/25/04