Physical activity & Nutrition

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Sugar content of Fruit

Healthy eating, Adolescent, Curriculum Development, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Worksheets, Healthy weight - Updated

How much sugar / How much carbohydrate in common fruits?

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Stylecraze - illnesses of deficiciency

Nutrition , Adolescent, Senior Primary, Healthy weight - Updated

Find out the conditions that could arise if a healthy balanced diet is not followed. These are 10 conditions that are caused by poor nutritional status.

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Strength-Training Exercises for Kids

Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Healthy weight, Activity - Updated

Parents.com provides an information hub for parents including strength training exercises. Strength training means using body weight to help build up strength. Perfect for kids and the whole family.

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Strength and Balance: 20 Super Fun Core Exercises for Kids

Senior Primary, Activity - Updated

Our core plays an integral role in everything we do, and if a child has weak core muscles, it will not only impact her gross motor skills and her ability to navigate the playground equipment at recess, but it will also make it difficult for her to control the fine motor skills needed to engage in academic activities like writing and cutting with scissors.

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Sport Hawke's Bay

Healthy school environment, Adolescent, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Websites, Activity - Updated

Website of Sport HB - creating a healthy vibrant community by supporting our people to be more physically active

 

480  GLOUCESTER STREET, PO BOX 7537, TARADALE  |  PH: (06) 845 9333  |  ACTIVE@SPORTHB.NET.NZ

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Speed & Agility Training for Kids

Adolescent, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Healthy weight, Activity - Updated

Agility, as defined by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, is the ability to change directions and gain speed without losing motor control. It is directly related to speed, balance and coordination skills. Children develop speed and agility at an early age, when they chase their friends or their family pet around the yard.

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Snack attack unit plan

Healthy eating, Curriculum Development, Nutrition , Junior Primary, Senior Primary - Updated

An inquiry-based unit plan that aims to educate students about the importance of healthy snacking and how to choose healthier options. The unit provides links to the curriculum and national standards assessment. National Heart Foundation 

 

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Skeleton cut out

Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Worksheets, Muscles and Bones - Updated

Make a mobile

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skeleton - no labels

Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Worksheets, Muscles and Bones - Updated

Fill in the names of the bones

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Sit Less, Move More, Sleep Well: Active play guidelines for under-fives resources

Curriculum Development, Junior Primary, Video, animation, Te Ao Maori - Updated

The resources were designed predominantly for kaiako in kohanga reo, but can be used by any early childhood educators, regional sports trusts and others who provide advice to parents, caregivers and whānau on active play for tamariki under five years of age.

The resources consist of:

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side stitch

Adolescent, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Video, animation, Activity - Updated

What's the deal with that sharp pain in your side when you're trying to win that marathon? SciShow has the answers!

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Share Care

Nutrition , Healthy eating, Video, animation, Healthy weight, Websites - Updated

Diet & Nutrition Q & As, videos, links etc.  Also other related topics.

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Science Learning Hub Energy for Exercise

Nutrition , Healthy eating, Adolescent, Digestive System, Senior Primary, Activity - Updated

The Science Learning Hub shows how food eaten is used to fuel our bodies to do everyday tasks.

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Science - How food is digested - 3D animation - English

Healthy eating, Digestive System, Junior Primary, Senior Primary - Updated

BodhaGuru Learning proudly presents a 3D animated musical video in English which explains how food is digested in human body. It shows how food passes through the digestive tract and how enzyme woks on the food to convert complex food into simpler substances.

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Science - Bones and Muscles

Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Video, animation, Muscles and Bones - Updated

A brief and simple description of the coordinated movement of bones and muscles

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School Kit

Adolescent, Curriculum Development, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Worksheets, Websites - Updated

FREE downloadable teacher resources designed for Kiwi kids in Kiwi schools. 

 

Every School Kit teacher resource is divided into three parts - Find, Apply, Produce.  We developed our model in an effort to provide teachers with innovative teaching ideas that were robustly integrated with opportunities for authentic use of online sources for learning.