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While Scholastic's site is well known for its helpful lessons and resources for teachers, this page lays out five excellent lessons that address student health issues. Teachers can also use reproducibles that go along with each lesson.

BrainPop provides animated movies and follow-up quizzes/activities related to hundreds of curriculum topics in Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art, Music, Health, and Technology. The movies are correlated to the Georgia Performance Standards, so you can select a standard (objective) and search for movies that are related to a specific standard.

This interdisciplinary lesson plan (civics, health, and science are covered) helps students pick apart myths about science that arise on the campaign trail. Obviously, it's time-sensitive, but it's important for kids to know that what candidates say is not always, well, the truth, particularly when it comes to science.

This page, entitled "Internet Safety for Parents and Kids," features helpful information regarding proper and safe Internet practices. It provides 14 steps to help parents. It also features important facts to think about regarding Internet safety for children. Some of the featured facts/numbers are quite alarming!

This BBCi site features all sorts of nifty interactive modules designed to help people learn more about the workings of the human body and mind. Some great Flash work here...