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Kids Health: Talking About Your Feelings
"Sharing your feelings helps you when your feelings are good and when they aren't so good. Sharing also helps you to get closer to people youcare about and who care about you. When people talk about feelings, they sometimes use the word...
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Kids Health: Woods & Camping Safety for the Whole Family
Be prepared for anything when going on a hiking or camping trip. Know what you need to be aware of in order to stay safe. Find information on insect bites, allergic reactions, proper camping attire, and safe drinking water, and learn...
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Kids Health: It's Time to Exercise
This 4-page article provides tips for exercising and doing physical activities in a variety of situations. Learn how to exercise and have fun in different types of weather and read about ways to participate in physical activities in...
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Kids Health: Everything You Every Wanted to Know About Puberty
Kids Health provides an excellent site on puberty. Promotes the idea that the changes taking place in a student's body are normal and part of growing up. Provides answers and responses to many-- even most-- of student questions about...
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Kids Health: Dealing With My Anger
Often times our first reaction when we're angry is to become physically aggressive. This site provides strategies for channeling one's anger into productive venues.
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Kids Health: Botulism
Keep yourself safe from botulism -- "a rare disease that affects nerves and the muscles they control." This article tells how botulism spreads and how it can be prevented.
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Kids Health: Cerebral Palsy
Read this informative article from Kids Health to find out what cerebral palsy is, the different types, how it is treated, and learning to live with it.
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Kids Health: Kids and Eating Disorders
Find out about the problem of eating disorders. Is it in to be thin? There's a lot of information here. Be sure to look at the tabs to the left for additional resources.
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Kids Health: Scabies
This article may make you itch. It is about an infection, Scabies. Tiny mites invade your body, lay eggs and give you a rash. Find out how this infection is passed on and how to get rid of it.
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Kids Health: Heart and Circulatory System
With this resource, visitors can learn how the heart works and about the parts of the heart, the circulation of blood and heart health. The resource is also available in Spanish. Includes audio.
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Kids Health: Chilling Out With Colds
Use this site to learn why colds are so "common" by what causes them and how a people catch them.
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Kids Health: When Snack Attacks Strike
Use this site to learn what kinds of snacks you should eat when you're hungry in between meals. Read about eating healthy snacks and avoiding junk food. This article is organized into the following sections: "In the Mood for Food," "The...
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Kids Health: Adoption
When someone is adopted it isn't always easy for them to deal with the reasons that it happened. This article attempts to help those with similar issues cope with the thoughts and feelings that surround being adopted. Links to related...
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Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for Me?
It is easy to compare yourself with the celebrities and models you see every day on TV and in magazines. These pictures sometimes help shape our body image and we begin to think that we should look like these people. The truth is that...
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Kids Health: Feelings
Two lessons are provided that engage students in learning about their feelings and the feelings of others.
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Kids Health: Health Problems Series: Stress [Pdf]
The activities in this instructional activity unit can help students to learn more about what stress is and how to effectively manage it. After identifying stressors, they will keep a record of how they handled stressful situations that...
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Kids Health: Time for Bed?
An interactive game where players compare kids with animals and adults to see who requires more sleep. Discover fast facts throughout the game.
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Kids Health: Model Eardrum
You can make a model of the eardrum by following the simple directions on this site. Only four common items are needed to create this model.
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Kids Health: Shots
Ouch! Shots hurt! Test knowledge of how shots keep us from getting sick.
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Kids Health: Lungs & Respiratory System
A brief quiz about the respiratory system and how the lungs work.
