Websites
www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/muscle/musc13a.htm
This website looks at the muscles of the body. There is a section for each
limb. Great for revision as students have to click on a particular muscle of
the body and then have to choose from a list and find the correct answer.
Students are provided with feedback, i.e. if they are correct they are told
and if they are incorrect they are also told and then have the opportunity to
find the correct answer.
www.janeknight.com
It contains lots of useful downloadable free software including slideshare
which has 1000’s of Powerpoints on it. Go to the 100 top tools and just scroll
down. Freemind, moodle, igoogle, teachertub, guffy, cutepdwriter,
mindmeister are some examples of possibly useful tools
www.adiosbarbie.com
A great body image site that has a cool interactive game, feed the starving
model before she passes out on the catwalk. A great website with great
information on body image messages, loads of current information too.
www.tki.org.nz
Once on the home page select Wicked, type in Human Body in the search
engine and wow you get great interactive activities with photocopiable
resources and cool classroom activities that you can do with your students,
covers many different body systems.
www.teachpe.com/zone_gcse.htm
GCSE Physical Education very useful revision site, also contains numerous
lesson plans
www.accessexcellence.org/HHQ/
American Health Focus with excellent Living Skeleton.
www.nutritionexplorations.org/educators/lessons-main.asp
Low level nutrition activities and games, good resources.
www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index.shtml
The BBC site with good physiology and anatomy resources.
www.exrx.net/Exercise.html
Yr 11-13, Excellent weight training site that shows muscles, movements and
joint articulations with good diagrams, pictures and videos. It is a thorough
list.
www.bgfl.org
Then search PE teaching resources
www.brianmac.co.uk
Another good site we have just discovered whilst trawling for Scholarship
revision material
www.pecentral.org
A UK website with some good basic lesson ideas for a range of ages. Quite
useful for a base in which to plan for new topics or bad planning days.
www.mapmyrun.com
A really good site for students to use to accurately plan runs especially in
urbanish areas. (Dunedin, Invercargill, Wanaka and Oamaru get good
coverage)
www.mc.edu/campus/users/cboothe/carastafford2.htm
It is a site about synovial joints. It has really good diagrams and moving
animated pictures which show haw various synovial joints move. It also has
nice simple definitions and explanations of each synovial joint.
www.specialolympics.org/Special+Olympics+Public+Website/English/Coach/C
oaching_Guides/default.htm
The above web address is full of awesome stuff the might at first seem not
to apply, but is often useful if select bits and pieces are used.
In 3.6, where students provide programmes for others it comes in handy,
and as a teachers reference for coaching new sports if may be useful as
skills are really broken down in the extreme. And it’s good for us all to see
the hard work done for intellectually disabled students who are interested
in sport and training.
www.newstarget.com.
Good for Year 12 and 13 students to sift through when collecting
information for critical analysis tasks such as AS 2.1 or AS 3.5.
www.wvda.org/calcs/sport.html
This site calculates calories burned in different sports codes
www.moh.govt.nz/obesity
Obesity in NZ and related links
www.everybody.co.nz
Great site on all Health and PE topics for New Zealand even has little videos
e.g. Achilles tendon rip.
www.teachingsexualhealth.ca
An innovative web site developed by Canadian educators and health
professionals to help achieve excellence in teaching sexual health; contains
resources for student and teachers, including lesson plans.
www.hubba.co.nz
A good website for info on STI’s and contraception it contains interactive
games.
www.reachout.com.au
Information on a range of help topics
www.getbodysmart.com/index.htm
This has been used all year with the year 11 and year 12's. A fantastic site
for learning body parts!
www.howstuffworks.com/question223.htm
Try to ignore the love button but if you must!
www.tennistechnique.com/
The video demo is very good
www.kidshealth.org/teen/sexual_health/changing_body/male_repro.html
Push the body basics button.
There is one for the female reproductive system as well.
Very good site to trawl through for students, lots of good information and FAQs
www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/TEENS_Marijuana_brochure.pdf
Good brochure for drug and alcohol units, plenty of up to date information
www.pbskidsgo.org
Very good interactive student website also has helpful sections for teachers and
parents, could be very useful during your health/ sexuality consultation
www.cyclingnews.com
Website specialising in cycling, informative and up to date
www.espn.com
Up to the minute international sports information website directly linked to the TV
channel
www.bbc.co.uk
Main BBC home page, you can go to anywhere you fancy via this site. Has a
very powerful search engine