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Childline: Asking an Adult for Help
Here is some advice to help children feel comfortable asking an adult for help.
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Kids Helpline: Empowering Young People to Ask for Help
Being able to ask for help when you need it is an essential skill. This article discusses how to overcome the challenges kids and teens face when asking for help.
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911 for Kids: Program Lesson Plan
This lesson plan includes when to call or not call 911. Included is a quiz with emergency and non-emergency scenarios you can use to help kids decide when the right time is to call 911. There are also tips on how to talk to the 911...
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Kids Health: Teaching Your Child How to Use 911
Everyone needs to know about calling 911 in an emergency. But kids also need to know the specifics about what an emergency is. This article gives a list of when to call 911 and pointers on how to talk to the 91 1 operator.
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Kids Health: Helping Kids Deal With Bullies
There are ways to help your child cope with teasing, bullying, or mean gossip, and lessen its lasting impact. And even if bullying isn't an issue in your class right now, it's important to discuss it so your kids will be prepared if it...
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Kids Helpline: Helping Kids Identify and Express Feelings
Learning to identify and express feelings in a positive way helps kids develop the skills they need to manage them effectively. Here are some tips on how to encourage your child to express their feelings.
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Oprah: How Friendship Affects Children's Eating Habits
Studies show that friendship plays an important role in a kid's eating behavior. The results of the study showed that overweight children who ate with their overweight friends consumed more food than when they were with thinner children...
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Uen: Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors
This lesson teaches students to identify the differences between healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Included are graphic cards that the students will use to make a classroom chart of healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
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Class Flow: Nutrition Facts Labels
This lesson focuses on how to read nutrition and ingredient labels. A quiz is provided at the end of the slideshow.
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Safe Kids Worldwide: Pedestrian Safety
Whether your kids are walking to school, the park or a friend's house, here are a few simple tips to make sure they get there safely.
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Active for Life: Jumping, Hopping & Skipping
A series of activities to practice motor skills using jump ropes, cones, and hula hoops.
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Pe Central: Dancing on Different Levels
Used in the preschool or lower elementary grades, this dance can reinforce the concepts of moving in a low, medium and high level as well as practicing movements to the right and left.
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Pe Central: Be the Pizza
The students are going to pretend to be pizza dough being made into a pizza pie. The teacher will give the following step by step instructions for the process of making the pizza. Children respond by moving their bodies as if they were...
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Pe Central: Alphabet Madness
This activity promotes movement through imagery inspired by words associated with each letter of the alphabet.
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Pe Central: Balancing Act!
Students will demonstrate body management skills specific to balance with and without the use of apparatus by working their way through a series of stations. A balancing checklist for assessment is included.
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Alex: Watch Me Toss, Catch and Travel!
Week-long detailed lesson plan for early elementary physical education students focusing on walking, marching, traveling, catching, and tossing.