Wide variety of things geographical in one sense or another. Alao a lot of depth in available offerings spanning back several issues in almost all areas. Nice interactive games and puzzles.
This site is for elementary students and has interactive games that allow students to explore food safety, nutrition, and what they need to have a healthy body.
This site has an interactive game on the Food Pyramid that explains what foods teens need to eat and how much to be healthy. It has a quiz that the students can take after playing the game and print out their results. This would be a good starter activity that introduces the students to the nutrition requirements they need. The site has articles that explain many health issues that concern teens. This is a good place to have students start their research on what makes a healthy meal.
An interactive site with 5 simulations regarding the heart:
Anatomy - construct a model of the heart structure and a model of the heart circulatory pathways.
Disease - learn about diagnostic tools and heart diseases/disorders. Includes a section where learners can "try out" the diagnostic tools.
Exploring the Hospital - Learn about heart catheterization and heart surgeries. Read about medical profession careers
Surgery - Learn about heart bypass surgery and perform a virtual heart bypass surgery
Prevention - learn about prevention of heart disease and follow one patient's life timeline and how his choices affectied his heart health
This game is for high school and beyond. It provides an interactive place for people looking into careers and for changing jobs. It's time consuming but it can be very helpful for people who don't know what they want to do. d_3, gl_C, EV_4, yf_2
Games kids in grade pre-k through adult can play. However, most are geared toward elementary grades. It also has activity pages that can be printed for use in the classroom. d_3, gl_E, ev_4, y_f2
This site has the California standards but the activities could be used with the TEKS. This will tell students how much calcium they need and gives them information on how to get it. This would be a good site for students to check the nutrition they get from the meals they eat outside of school.
This site is geared toward middle schoolers and has a lot of health information. They can find out more about nutrition by going to the Body tab and clicking on the "More on Body" link at the bottom of the page. This takes them to a site that has information about proper nutrition and what they can do to be healthier. This is a good site to use for researching nutrtional requirements.
This site is from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), an appropriate site for our researchers! Has information on all aspects of children's health and games! The one that would be great to use with the students is Dining Decisions in the Food & Nutrition section. It has the students select 5 items from the cafeteria that are the healthiest to eat. It gives them information about the items after they have chosen them and why they are or are not good choices.
This site is for younger kids but is does have the nutrition information for fruits and vegetables and the Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) of the fruits and vegetables. The students can get the chart from this site, http://www.dole.com/funfacts-chart9-13.html.
The Pacific Science Center runs this site. There are several games that students can play that has them identifying the nutrition they need and in what they eat. This site also helps students learn if what they're eating is healthy for them.
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