HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION WEBSITES
By Jessica H., Laura H., Heather P., Sarah R., Brett S.
Nutrition/The Body
APPLES4THE TEACHER - DENTAL HEALTH MONTH FOR KIDS http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/dental-
health/
The website apples4theteacher is a teaching resource linked to many different subjects. I found a page related to dental health which
includes colouring sheets, directions on how to brush teeth, information about cavities, poems, word searches and literature relating to dental
health.
The expectations that this website addresses include:
GRADE 1/2
Expectation 1: (gr.1) describe ways to care for their teeth
Expectation 2: (gr.2) explain the negative effects of poor nutrition on healthy teeth and the importance of regular brushing and visits to the
dentist
BAM BODY AND MIND http://www.bam.gov/
This website contains games and information regarding diseases, healthy eating, physical activity, and safety, your life, and your body. I choose
this website because it is fun and has games and lots of information. This website covers lots of expectations across the grades in health and
physical education.
GRADE 2
Expectation 1: identify a balanced diet and apply decision-making skills to create menus for healthy meal
Expectation 2: identify safety rules to be followed in the home, school, and community
GRADE 3
Expectation 1: describe benefits of healthy food choice, physical activity, ad healthy bodies
CANADA’S FOOD GUIDE TO HEALTHY EATING http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index-eng.php
This is a valuable downloadable resource for any grade that deals with the Healthy Eating expectations. This guide is a resource that helps
teach children about healthy eating and nutrition. It outlines the food groups and how to make the right healthy food choices. This guide is
great for all grade levels and fits the Healthy Eating Expectations for Primary grades 1-3 very well.
GRADE 1
Expectation 1: identify the food groups and give examples of foods in each group
GRADE 2
Expectation 1: identify a balanced diet and apply decision making skills to create menus for healthy meals
GRADE 3
Expectation 1: describe the benefits of healthy food choices, physical activity and healthy bodies
DISCOVERY – Your Gross & Cool Body http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/index.html
This website educates children on body functions and systems, such as dandruff and pimples to the Muscular System. Your Gross and Cool
Body helps kids find the answers to silly questions in an understandable and funny manner. This website is directed as children.
GRADE 1-6
Expectations: Addresses the Growth and Development Expectations from grade one to grade six.
DOLE FIVE A DAY http://www.dole5aday.com/
This website has sections for children, parents, and teachers. The children's section has games and information regarding healthy eating. This
is a good website because it would be entertaining to children while teaching them about healthy eating.
GRADE 2
Expectation 1: identify a balanced diet and apply decision-making skills to create menus for healthy meals
DOLE KIDS http://216.255.136.121/Kids/K_Index.jsp
Dole has created a website targeted at primary and junior students which relates to the healthy eating section from the healthy living strand
within the health and physical education curriculum document. Games, facts, and work sheets are available to learn about fruits and
vegetables as part a balanced diet.
GRADE 2
Expectation 1: identify a balanced diet and apply decision-making skills to create menus for healthy meals
KIDS HEALTH http://kidshealth.org/
This website has sections for parents, children, and teens. For children is has information to help deal with issues, tips to staying healthy,
healthy recipes, and much more. This website really deals with issues children might be afraid to ask their teachers and parents and is a great
resource for students to research various topics. This website covers many expectations for the healthy living section of the curriculum.
GRADE 5
Expectation 1: identify strategies to deal positively with stress and pressures that result from relationship with family and friends
Expectation 2: describe the secondary changes at puberty
LUNGS ARE FOR LIFE– The Lung Association http://www.lungsareforlife.ca/
Lungs Are For Life is The Lung Association’s school program for smoking prevention. It has been developed specifically for Ontario teachers
and students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. It is directed at children, teachers, parents. The program is free and includes teaching modules,
posters, brochures. According to the website, Health Canada rated this program as one of the top three smoking prevention programs in
Canada. This program meets the expectations in the Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum and is endorsed by Ophea (Ontario
Physical and Health Education Association).
GRADE 1-12
Expectations: Addresses Substance Use and Abuse Expectations from grades one to twelve.
MENU OF CHOICES http://www.menuofchoices.ca/
This website is directed at both elementary and secondary teachers. It contains lessons on healthy eating and nutrition. It also helps schools
establish a School Nutrition Policy, presents healthy eating programs and displays ways to create healthy environments (through events,
vending machines, etc.). This website provides looks of resources to make your school healthier.
GRADE 1-6
Expectations: Healthy Eating expectations grades one to six.
NUTRITION CAFÉ http://exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/noflash_nutrition.html
This website contains nutrition information such as a glossary of various terms, an interactive food pyramid, and fun games involving nutrient
knowledge, eating right, food facts and healthy bodies.
The expectations that this website addresses include:
GRADE 5:
Expectation 1: explain the purpose and function of calories and major food nutrients
Expectation 2: identify critical content information on food labels(e.g. ingredients, calories, additives, fat content)
POWER FOR BONES www.power4bones.com
I found this website while searching www.teachnutrition.org and thought it was a valuable tool to help bring media and technology into the
classroom. Power4Bones is a free, curriculum-integrated grade 5 program that begins in January each year. This award-winning program
provides your students with a fun and innovative way to learn about bone-health. Power4Bones is based on multiple learning styles and helps
teachers meet curriculum expectations in a variety of subjects, such as Health and Physical Education and Language, including Media Literacy.
It is 7-week program that consists of a variety of educational activities including interactive Web challenges, a classroom trivia game, and the
design of a public service announcement.
GRADE 5 (main expectations)
Expectation 1: analyze information that has an impact on healthy eating practices
Expectation 2: explain how changes in our bodies sometimes affect our eating habits
S-TEAM HEROES http://www.teamheroes.ca/website/facts.html
This website includes facts, definitions and strategies related to the topic of bullying. The website is geared towards students in that it is
very colourful, has characters called the “S-Team Heroes,” games and contests and is very easy to navigate through.
The expectations that this website addresses include:
GRADE 5
Expectation 1: explain how people’s actions (e.g. bullying, excluding others) can affect the feelings and reactions of others
Expectation 2: apply strategies (e.g. anger management, assertiveness, conflict resolution) to deal with personal-safety and injury-prevention
situations (e.g. swarming, threatening, harassment)
Physical Activity
KIDNETIC http://www.kidnetic.com/
Kidnetic is an interactive website that gives students the opportunity to explore their health and physical body by reading, playing interactive
games and actually being physical while in front of the computer. It also provides parents with helpful resources and advice to keep kids active
and healthy. This website is for ages 9-12 but I felt that is focuses a lot on the Grade 6 Fundamental Movement Skills Expectations.
GRADE 6
Expectation 1: demonstrate a variety of running techniques
Expectation 2: jump for height
Expectation 3: perform locomotion/traveling and stability skills in combination
Expectation 4: perform a variety of springing actions
Expectation 5: perform a combination of locomotion/traveling skills using equipment
CANADA’S PHYSICAL ACTIVITY GUIDE http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/pau-uap/paguide/index.html
This website is a link for the free print outs of Ontario’s Physical Activity Guide for Children. This guide is a helpful resource for parents
teacher and children to get up and get moving. It has valuable information about the benefits of living an healthy active life and provides ways
in which students can keep being physical on regular basis. This guide is great for all grade levels and fit the Healthy Living Expectations for
Primary grades 2-3.
GRADE 2
Expectation 1: describe parts of the human body; the functions of these parts and behaviours that contribute to good health
GRADE 3
Expectation 1: describe the benefits of physical activity and healthy bodies
PLAY SPORT http://www.playsport.net/en/
This educational website is designed to teach games by playing games. It also allows teachers to search for activities based on the equipment,
the skills you want to teach, the complexity of the game or the space available.
Expectations: Addresses Fundamental Movement Skills for grades one to twelve
Making the Right Choices
IT’S MY LIFE (PBS KIDS GO!) http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/index.html
PBS introduces students to many different topics on this website. I focused on alcohol specifically but this is a great resource as it covers
many issues. For the subject of alcohol, this site explains alcohol in the media, what alcohol is, what it does, peer pressure, alcoholism,
questions, etc. It also has an alcohol crossword puzzle and students can keep a printable journal about their feelings and ideas.
The expectations that this website addresses include:
GRADE 5- Substance Use and Abuse:
Expectation 1: describe short- and long-term effects of alcohol use and abuse
Expectation 2: apply decision- making skills to make healthy choices about alcohol use, and recognize factors (e.g. the media, family members,
friends, laws) that can influence the decision to drink alcohol
Expectation 3: demonstrate resistance techniques (e.g. avoidance, walking away) and assertiveness skills (e.g. saying no) to deal with peer
pressure in situations pertaining to substance use and abuse
SEXUALITY AND YOU-Link to Sexual Well-Being http://www.sexualityandu.ca/home_e.aspx
Sexuality and U is directed towards adults, teachers, teens, parents and health professionals. The teacher section of the website assists
teachers in teaching Sex Ed by providing teaching tools such as presentations, lesson plans and webquests. The teen section of the website
includes a variety of topics such as puberty, sex, contraception, STIs, sexual identity, and sexual assault to name a few. This section is
directed at teens though its comfortable and cool visual presentation.
GRADE 7
Expectations: Addresses expectations from grade 5 upwards into adulthood. (I would recommend this website for grade 7 and up because
there is a lot of content.)
TALK HELPS http://www.talk-helps.com/
This is an anti-bullying website that focuses on the different types of people who will be involved in bullying from the bully to the victim to the
bystander. Through different scenarios children learn how each character can positively or negatively affect a bullying situation.
This website is geared to the junior/intermediate level. It’s main focus is for grade 6 and 7 Healthy Living Personal Safety and Injury
Prevention Expectations.
GRADE 6:
Expectation 1: describe and respond appropriately to potentially violent situations relevant to themselves
GRADE 7:
Expectation 1: describe harassment and identify ways of dealing with it
Expectation 2: identify people and resources that can support someone experiencing harassment
Resource Websites
PE CENTRAL http://www.pecentral.org/
This website is mainly a source for teachers to find lesson plans and activities in health and physical education. Depending on what grade level a
teacher is looking for it can meet many expectations in the primary/junior division. It is a great resource for us as future teachers to find
lesson plan for our physical education programs.
TEACH NUTRITION http://www.teachnutrition.org/
Teach nutrition is an awesome website for teachers that provide tons of resources about health and nutrition. It has activities, games and
lessons from Kindergarten all the way up to grade 8. It provides teachers with links to a wide variety of lesson topics and the chance to order
free resources. The kid’s corner on the website has a great interactive game to help students learn about digestion and proper eating habits.
Curriculum Expectation ranges from K- Grade 8. The main focus is on Healthy Living: Healthy Eating Expectations for each grade level.