ATHLETICS/ HEALTH Educator's Links

Adolescent Mood Disorders - "Mood disorders describe a range of behavioral issues that may occur in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood. We will focus on mood disorders in teenagers, because in this unique population these behavioral problems may express themselves in ways that make diagnosis more difficult."

Asthma Web Site from NEA/HIN - Links professionals with resources and information on asthma.  Includes fact sheets, a searchable database of resources and a glossary of terms.

Access Excellence - The National Health Museum and links for Bioscience and Health Teachers.

Bones - Feel it in your Bones - A project of the Ed Committee of the Amer. Society for Bone and Mineral research.  Excellent reference materials.

Character Education - Comprehensive site with an excellent selection of resources, including lesson plans for all levels, a teachers guide, sample character education programs, links to good Web sites, information about emotional intelligence, bullying, terrorism, and an ERIC 
Digest that discusses the various definitions of and approaches to character education, divergent points of view on character education in schools and much more.

Consumer Health Resources on the Net - chosen by Conn. Health Services.

D.A.R.E.    

EcoHealth - created by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and focuses on global warming and other environmental threats and their links to human health problems.  Features photos, diagrams, maps and video clips, standards-based lesson plans, a news page, and a glossary with many terms not yet found in household dictionaries.  

Health - Coordinating School Health Programs Maine.gov

Health and P.E. - The dozens of lessons at this site are grade-level specific, and include traditional health and P.E. topics such as nutrition, hygiene, fitness, and safety.

Health Teacher Resources - Lesson Plans***  HealthTeacher.com is provided as an alternative approach to improving school-based health education.  HealthTeacher.com provides a comprehensive, sequential K-12 health education curriculum that consists of almost 300 lesson guides that meet National Health Education Standards and provide skills-based assessment methods. HealthTeacher.com is designed to address the significant health and behavioral issues facing today's youth -- and their classroom teachers. This help for health educators is absolutely free and it's just a click away.

Health Resources

McREL - Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning - a private Resource Center.

Maine  Maine Health Science Libraries Information Consortium
Maine Office of Substance Abuse - Click "Resources" to get an up-to-date listing of materials you can order/borrow.  

National Association for Sport and Physical Education - This organization "seeks to enhance knowledge and professional practice in sport and physical activity through scientific study and dissemination of research-based and experiential knowledge to members and the public."

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information - Prevention materials tailored for use by parents, teachers, youth, and prevention professionals.

NIH Curriculum Units - This series tackles topics ranging from cell biology, cancer and infectious diseases to human genetic variation, sleep disorders, neurobiology, addiction, chemicals, the environment, and more.  Each unit's lesson are aligned with the National Science Education Standards.  Each unit includes inquiry-based activities and extensive background materials for teachers.  High School Supplements Link.  Student Activity Portal

National Library of Medicine - The world's largest medical library and the creator of MEDLINE.

Nutrition - Just-Nutrition-Links

PE Central - Here are lesson ideas, assessment tools, articles, a message board, and professional development information to coach health and physical education teachers in all grades.

PELinks4U - What's new in physical education? Find the latest in fitness, health, and nutrition.

Phys Ed Lesson Plans 

Promoting Healthy and Active Lifestyles - A program from Central Washington University that has news, editorials, teacher help, and excellent links.

Resources for the unique needs of preteen and adolescent girls - from the Internet library. Blocked by Bess.

Sports & Physical Education Web Links from Saint Johns University - This is a carefully designed list of resources that includes some very valuable and useful website links to general sports fields and to websites devoted to the specific major sports.

Sportsology.Net - Everything on the net having anything to do with sports.

Database Quicklinks, Description and Information
 
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