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Cybersmart provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world. Cybersmart also offers training and resources for schools and materials for library staff. Developed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, Cybersmart is part of the Australian Government's cybersafety program.

Teachers has been developed to complement the publication Fundamental Motor Skills - A Manual for Classroom Teachers (1996). It is recommended that this activities resource and the manual be used in conjunction with each other. By doing so, teachers will be able to: * identify the essential fundamental motor skills and their components * select activities to teach fundamental motor skills * provide specific feedback to students * evaluate student learning * record student progress in a clear and understandable way.

Healthy by Design®. A guide to planning and designing environments for active living in Tasmania aims to assist planners, urban designers and related professionals to design a built environment that enables people to incorporate incidental physical activity-such as walking and cycling for transport-into their daily routine. This resource has wide application to the planning and design of the public realm. It contains discrete chapters on design considerations, evidence, tools and case studies that can be referred to and applied to a variety of settings. The strategies within this reference document apply to Tasmania's urban environments, but also address Tasmania's unique characteristics such as its broad open spaces and hilly topography that influence physical activity on a daily basis.

This website includes: * design principles that are the foundation stones of healthier more active communities * different development types where these principles can be applied * information about how to make planning for healthier communities happen. * Australian case studies that show what is achievable and which have potentially wider application, and * links to the health and planning research and resources that support planning for active living. Planning for healthier outcomes can be applied to all parts of Australia. It is just as applicable in metropolitan areas as it is in regional cities, towns, villages and remote communities.

Contains information on a range of youth related health topics including wellbeing and safety. It has resources on developing resilience, abuse, bullying and dealing with grief and trauma.

A comic look at how Photoshop is used to modifiy how women look in magazines so that they look better. A great resource for teaching about body image and self concept.

SPECIALIST child obesity clinics are so overwhelmed by demand that patients wait up to a year to get into a program. Doctors report a dramatic increase in the number and severity of childhood obesity cases they are treating but say resources are failing to keep pace with the epidemic. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/the-wait-grows-at-child-clinics-20111217-1ozs2.html#ixzz1jKthipOe

Links to resources and websites on physical activity